50 Series
Renault · on record 1994 to 2025
The Renault 50 Series comes from a period when numeric model names carried more of the range hierarchy than today's named families. The 50 Series designation belongs to Renault's heavier commercial vehicle range rather than its passenger cars, and covers working chassis used with several body types. A surviving 50 Series is now chiefly a historic vehicle, sustained by restoration, club knowledge and owners prepared to maintain machinery far beyond its original everyday life.
CRITICALLY ENDANGERED
Red List classification, from population, five year trajectory and survival against peak. Reviewed each census.
3
licensed vehicles
2025 census
2025 census
12.0% of the peak fleet remains licensed
6
declared SORN
total surviving
peak 25 in 2008 · −1 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
At the average decline recorded over the latest five years, the licensed fleet would reach zero around 2028.
Illustrative projection only; vehicle populations rarely decline linearly. Late fleets typically flatten as surviving examples enter preservation.
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.
New registrations
Vehicles first registered each year. A fleet still being sold shows here; a finished one shows only imports.
MOT reliability
DVSA test results for this family, 2005 to 2024.
Pass rate by year
| Failure reason | Failures | Share of all tests |
|---|---|---|
| A sharp edge or projection, caused by corrosion or damage, which renders the vehicle dangerous to other road users, including pedestrians. | 2 | 4.0% |
| Steering rack gaiter or ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated | 2 | 4.0% |
| A ball joint dust cover missing, insecure or excessively damaged or deteriorated to the extent that it would no longer prevent the ingress of dirt etc | 2 | 4.0% |
| A retaining or locking device missing or insecure | 2 | 4.0% |
| A major leak of exhaust gases from any part of the system | 2 | 4.0% |
| Amalgamation of failures for all headlamp testers | 2 | 4.0% |
| A brake lining or pad insecure or less than 1.5mm thick at any point | 2 | 4.0% |
| A ball joint dust cover missing, insecure or excessively damaged or deteriorated to the extent that it would no longer prevent the ingress of dirt etc. | 2 | 4.0% |
Counted across every recorded test, 2005 to 2024. Advisories are excluded.
Where the 50 Series remains
Based on MOT test locations, 2024. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| BB | 1 | 100% |
How this record was calculated
LATEST CENSUS2025
POPULATION SOURCEDVLA VEH0220 annual
HISTORY SOURCEDVLA VEH0120 GB · to 2013
MOT SOURCEDVSA results · to 2024
FAMILY DEFINITIONRENAULT 50 SERIES
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.