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Makes / Volvo / S90

S90

Volvo · on record 1997 to 2025

GROWING

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

7,535 licensed vehicles
2025 census

97.8% of the peak fleet remains licensed

207
declared SORN
 
total surviving

peak 7,701 in 2024  ·  +43 vehicles a year, five year trend

Population history

Licensed and SORN vehicles at each census. Filters apply to the population, MOT and registration figures together.

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
A brake lining or pad worn below 1.5mm 1,153 3.0%
Tyre tread depth not in accordance with the requirements 754 2.0%
Windscreen or window damaged or seriously discoloured but not adversely affecting driver's view 669 1.7%
A tyre seriously damaged 541 1.4%
A tyre cords visible or damaged 426 1.1%
The calculated parking brake efficiency is too low 297 0.8%
Wiper blade defective 257 0.7%
A low braking effort is recorded from the parking brake on any wheel, indicating clearly that the brake is not functioning correctly 186 0.5%

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

Where the S90 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
B 192 90%
PE 152 87%
G 151 91%
DN 141 87%
S 132 90%
NE 129 89%
NG 117 85%
LE 108 90%
NN 104 84%
CV 104 88%
RG 98 88%
CH 95 83%
NW 95 89%
M 93 87%
WA 92 82%
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How this record was calculated

LATEST CENSUS2025
POPULATION SOURCEDVLA VEH0220 quarterly
HISTORY SOURCEDVLA VEH0120 GB · to 2013
MOT SOURCEDVSA results · to 2025
FAMILY DEFINITIONVOLVO S90
PROCESSED20 Jul 2026
Full methodology

Population figures count vehicles recorded as licensed or SORN in the DVLA quarterly extract. Figures before 2014 cover Great Britain only. Vehicles are grouped into this family by the DVLA GenModel key shown above, with routing rules for known inconsistencies.

Variant figures are parsed from raw DVLA model descriptions and the original string is always retained. 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.