18
Renault · on record 1994 to 2025
The Renault 18 was Renault's 1970s and 1980s medium family car, offered as saloon and estate and positioned as conventional everyday transport below the larger 20 and 30. The 18 had a distinct role in the Renault range, giving buyers a reason to choose it beyond the badge alone. As ordinary family use recedes, the 18 survives through a mixture of continued practicality and growing interest in the versions that best represent its period.
GROWING
Red List classification, from population, five year trajectory and survival against peak. Reviewed each census.
31
licensed vehicles
2025 census
2025 census
0.1% of the peak fleet remains licensed
68
declared SORN
total surviving
peak 27,603 in 1994 · +3 vehicles a year, five year trend
Population history
Licensed and SORN vehicles at each census. The filters below apply to the family population, MOT and registration figures. They do not alter the generation history above.
Licensed
SORN
Latest census observation
Inside the surviving fleet
AutoCensus parses every DVLA variant description, so the fleet can be read by fuel and specification rather than as one number.
First registrations by year
When surviving examples first joined the British fleet.
Recent UK first registrations
This family is no longer sold new. These figures are imports and historic vehicles joining the British register for the first time.
MOT reliability
DVSA test results for this family, 2018 to 2025.
Pass rate by year
| Failure reason | Failures | Share of all tests |
|---|---|---|
| Wiper blade defective | 6 | 16.2% |
| Steering rack gaiter or ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated | 5 | 13.5% |
| Significant brake effort recorded with no brake applied indicating a binding brake | 4 | 10.8% |
| Obligatory mirror or device slightly damaged or loose | 4 | 10.8% |
| Braking effort not recording at a wheel | 2 | 5.4% |
| Wiper not operating or missing | 2 | 5.4% |
| Stop lamp missing, inoperative | 2 | 5.4% |
| Emissions levels exceed default limits | 2 | 5.4% |
Counted across every recorded test, 2018 to 2025. Advisories are excluded.
Where the 18 remains
Based on MOT test locations, 2025. Test location is a proxy: a vehicle is counted where it was last tested, not where it is kept.
| Postcode area | Vehicles tested | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| GU | 1 | 100% |
| SP | 1 | 100% |
How this record was calculated
LATEST CENSUS2025
POPULATION SOURCEDVLA VEH0220 annual
HISTORY SOURCEDVLA VEH0120 GB · to 2013
MOT SOURCEDVSA results · to 2025
FAMILY DEFINITIONRENAULT 18
PROCESSED20 Sep 2026
Full methodology
Population history combines DVLA VEH0120 Q4 census observations through 2013 with the annual VEH0220 census from 2014 onward. Figures before 2014 cover Great Britain only. Historical VEH0120 is used only when its overlapping UK observations reconcile to the current canonical family definition. Vehicles are grouped into this family using the DVLA GenModel together with durable routing rules for known inconsistencies.
Variant figures are parsed from raw DVLA model descriptions and the original string is always retained. Configuration is only assigned where the model description explicitly identifies it; a blank configuration is not treated as a two door Wrangler. Blank transmission fields are shown as manual because DVLA records the field for automatic vehicles.
MOT figures count tests, not vehicles, and geographic figures count each vehicle at its most recent test location. The decline projection is a straight line fitted to the latest five years and is illustrative only.