Sonett
Saab · on record 1994 to 2025
The Saab Sonett was a small 2 seat sports car built in very limited numbers, using Saab mechanical components in a lightweight coupe body. Several generations were produced, with later cars using the V4 engine also found in the 96. It was always a niche product rather than a volume model, so British registrations are rare and typically survive through specialist or collector ownership.
GROWING
Red List classification, from population, five year trajectory and survival against peak. Reviewed each census.
23
licensed vehicles
2025 census
2025 census
95.8% of the peak fleet remains licensed
5
declared SORN
total surviving
peak 24 in 2022 · +0 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.
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 2025.
Pass rate by year
| Failure reason | Failures | Share of all tests |
|---|---|---|
| Amalgamation of failures for all headlamp testers | 4 | 5.0% |
| A registration plate with a character not correctly formed, sloping, or likely to be misread | 2 | 2.5% |
| When the brake is fully applied there is no possibility of further travel of the lever because the lever is at the end of its working travel on the ratchet | 2 | 2.5% |
| The calculated parking brake efficiency is too low | 2 | 2.5% |
| A leak in any part of a braking system | 2 | 2.5% |
| Amalgamation of failures for all headlamp testers | 2 | 2.5% |
| An insecure, split or missing steering rack gaiter | 2 | 2.5% |
| A low braking effort is recorded from the parking brake on any wheel, indicating clearly that the brake is not functioning correctly | 1 | 1.3% |
Counted across every recorded test, 2005 to 2025. Advisories are excluded.
Where the Sonett 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 |
|---|---|---|
| LL | 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 DEFINITIONSAAB SONETT
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.