This is a link (found on Facebook) to the government's webpage containing a list of cars taken off the road in the 2009 - https://assets.publishing.service.gov.u ... iyXF9tPGyA

You can download a copy and play with it to your heart's content... but I guarantee you'll be shaking your head at some point.

You'll find that 9,112 Rover 200 vehicles, 5,690 400s, 129 25s and 32 45s were taken off the roads - a total of 14,963, there or thereabouts

This is out of a total of 392,227.

Some of these will be linked to the scrappage scheme but there are all the other reasons too - MOT failures, accidents etc.

This has been done by trying to interpret the info logged at registration - in fact the only amusing things about this list are the wrong names

Can anyone post the links to other years?

Shocking reading. Working through alphabetically, you obviously hit Austin early on..... it makes you wince looking at what was scrapped .

There won't necessarily be equivalent documents for other years. It shows this as a FoI release, which would probably have just been produced on request. In theory, anyone can submit a FoI request to get other years' info.

my god

upon quick skim reading

6 peugeot 306 gti
3 rover 216 gti
1 rover 220 gti turbo
2 rover 220 gsi turbo
2 rover 220 coupe turbo
6 rover 220 gti
5 rover 220 gsi
1 rover 220 turbo se
ROVER,420 Turbo, x 2
rover 620 ti x 3

They are just a few cars I looked for

rip

Top 3 cars that were scrapped in 2009:

Ford Fiesta - 13,622
Nissan Micra - 11,808
Vauxhall Corsa - 10,453

Thank god for that