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1 Launch Edition
Smart · on record 2023 to 2025
The Smart 1 Launch Edition is a detailed version of the 1, the compact battery electric SUV that marked Smart's move from tiny city cars into conventional 5 door family crossovers. The suffix records trim or launch positioning, while buyers were choosing the same underlying electric crossover for premium urban and family use. Its long term pattern will reflect a much newer and broader Smart market than the original Fortwo generation.
GROWING
Red List classification, from population, five year trajectory and survival against peak. Reviewed each census.
79
licensed vehicles
2025 census
2025 census
100.0% of the peak fleet remains licensed
0
declared SORN
total surviving
peak 79 in 2025 · +29 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.
How this record was calculated
LATEST CENSUS2025
POPULATION SOURCEDVLA VEH0220 annual
HISTORY SOURCEDVLA VEH0120 GB · to 2013
FAMILY DEFINITIONSMART 1 LAUNCH EDITION
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.