[Mgs] How many left?

[Simon Matthews]

Interesting.

The MGA numbers increased from 1994 to 1998 and then have been fairly
steady, with a slight peak around 2005.

Simon



On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 6:11 AM, Paul Hunt <paul.hunt1 at blueyonder.co.uk>
wrote:
> A question that has been asked from time to time, now (info from Top Gear)
> there is a web site giving the numbers for UK cars licensed or notified as
> being off-road from 1994 to 2011 based on government data.  This doesn't
> include cars that have been off-road since before 31st January 1998.  Since
> that date a car must either be taxed, taken out of use and notified as
such,
> scrapped and notified as such, or possibly exported and notified as such,
the
> first two remaining on the database, the second two not.  So each reduction
in
> numbers over the period is almost certainly a car having been scrapped (or
> exported), in fact it's probably more than that as a few may well be coming
> back on the road, having been off since before the above date.
>
> For the MGB (search for MG B) it shows 11271 in 1994, rising to 14156 in
1999
> (i.e. 3000-odd coming back on the road in that time), then a steady decline
to
> 10453 in 2011.  For the GT it's 19498 in 1994, then a more or less steady
(and
> significant) decline to 8168 in 2011.  For the GT V8 it was 710 in 1994,
> fairly steady until 2000, then a decline to 414 in 2011.
>
> Some of these are a bit surprising to me - like the significantly higher
> number of GTs in 1994.  Perhaps not so surprising is the much greater
decline
> in GT numbers - halving - since 2000.  Also surprising is the decline in
> genuine V8 numbers given the interest in conversions.  The Government
> scrappage scheme which started in May 2009 doesn't seem to have made a huge
> difference, I'm glad to say.
>
> Current numbers for other MGs also available of course, just 5 Magnette
> (Farina), but then there were only 9 in 1994 anyway.  Perhaps
unsurprisingly
> the MG Maestro and Metro have suffered the greatest decline, with the
> exception of the Metro 6R4 which is only one fewer, albeit having gone up
by
> 13 and down by 14 over the period.  There doesn't appear to be a single MG
> Montego.
>
> http://howmanyleft.co.uk/?q=mg+b
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