Highlander

Toyota · on record 2021 to 2025

The Toyota Highlander is Toyota's large car based family SUV, sold in hybrid form in Britain after being established for many years in overseas markets. The Highlander appealed mainly to buyers seeking a more sporting or distinctive choice than the maker's ordinary range. The Highlander is still relatively young in census terms, so its long term survival will depend more on battery support, repair economics and continuing usefulness than on established classic car preservation.

GROWING

Red List classification, from population, five year trajectory and survival against peak. Reviewed each census.

1,227 licensed vehicles
2025 census

99.6% of the peak fleet remains licensed

declared SORN

total surviving

peak 1,232 in 2024 · +120 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 SOURCE DVLA VEH0120 / VEH0220

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
Windscreen or window damaged or seriously discoloured but not adversely affecting driver's view	28	2.4%
A rear registration plate lamp or light source missing or inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources	22	1.9%
An obligatory rear fog lamp missing, or a front or rear fog lamp inoperative	21	1.8%
An obligatory lamp shows a light other than red to the rear and white to the front (or yellow if a front position lamp is incorporated in a yellow headlamp)	20	1.7%
A lamp missing, inoperative	18	1.5%
A mandatory rear fog lamp inoperative or less than 50% of the light sources illuminating	16	1.4%
Headlamp reflector or lens slightly defective	16	1.4%
Lamp emitted colour, position or intensity not in accordance with the requirements	12	1.0%

Counted across every recorded test, 2005 to 2025. Advisories are excluded.

Where the Highlander 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
IP	33	85%
CB	7	86%
PE	5	80%
NN	3	67%
GL	3	100%
OX	2	100%
KA	2	50%
SW	2	50%
HG	2	100%
PA	1	100%
BA	1	100%
SA	1	100%
TW	1	100%
SE	1	100%
HP	1	100%
TA	1	100%

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How this record was calculated

LATEST CENSUS2025

POPULATION SOURCEDVLA VEH0220 annual

HISTORY SOURCEDVLA VEH0120 GB · to 2013

MOT SOURCEDVSA results · to 2025

FAMILY DEFINITIONTOYOTA HIGHLANDER

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.