Fl
Volvo · on record 2021 to 2025
Volvo Fl belongs to the marque's truck or heavy commercial population rather than its conventional passenger cars. This designation sits within Volvo's truck, bus, construction or specialist working vehicle activity rather than its conventional passenger car range. The Fl should therefore be read as a working or specialist asset, where conversion value and continued usefulness can preserve examples after ordinary fleet service ends.
Red List classification, from population, five year trajectory and survival against peak. Reviewed each census.
2025 census
100.0% of the peak fleet remains licensed
peak 20 in 2025 · +5 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.
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, 2006 to 2022.
| Failure reason | Failures | Share of all tests |
|---|---|---|
| A lamp missing, inoperative | 2 | 8.7% |
| Exhaust system leaking or insecure | 1 | 4.3% |
| Steering rack gaiter or ball joint dust cover missing or no longer prevents the ingress of dirt etc | 1 | 4.3% |
| Excessive wear in a pin and/or bush or pin/bearing, for example: 2mm for a 12mm diameter pin; 3mm for a 25mm diameter pin; 10% of the pin diameter for pins over 25mm diameter | 1 | 4.3% |
| Brake pipe damaged or excessively corroded | 1 | 4.3% |
| A mandatory rear fog lamp inoperative or less than 50% of the light sources illuminating | 1 | 4.3% |
| Steering rack gaiter or ball joint dust cover missing or no longer prevents the ingress of dirt etc | 1 | 4.3% |
| The windscreen washers do not provide enough liquid to clear the windscreen in conjunction with the wiper(s) | 1 | 4.3% |
Counted across every recorded test, 2006 to 2022. Advisories are excluded.
Where the Fl remains
Based on MOT test locations, 2022. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| DL | 2 | 50% |
How this record was calculated
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.