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I decided to get in contact with the DVLA to find out how many registered GTIs are left. 
Quite a few have been written off over the years, and with only 1000 made in each colour, i was really interested to see how rare our little cars were nowadays 

I soon received a reply from a chap who gave me the following link;

http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/statistics/da ... licensing/

The relevant table is- VEH0120 (and VEH0121 will gives the numbers with a SORN)

The Table contains the number of vehicles licensed at the end of each quarter by make and model.

I spent a good 2 and a 1/2hrs searching through the list (as far as I could see there is no order to the list and no way of getting all the VWs together) so I had to sift thru quite a few 1000 to find any 'POLO GTI'

I picked up on the fact that there were like 5 Polo Dunes, so when I found Polo GTI I kept looking for more, and found 2 in the end 





So I've replied back asking if he could find out any more info for me, preferably I wanted a table of remaining colours, like a chap on club lupo got, back in 2009

I supplied my GTIs reg in hope that thall help with finding the correct model code, as he said it might.

Unfortunately finding the numbers for the polo gti is not as easy as the lupo for the following reasons;

1) they had more members of staff back when the lupo table was made (they have just undergone a 30% reduction of staff across the whole department so have much less resource than they used to have) 

2) the Lupo GTI was a specific make / model code on its own so it was simple to pull figures out of the database.

Anyway I'll let you all know when I get a reply  


17.4.11 - Reply

Your car is the M7836 version. However, if the numbers you quoted in your original email are correct then this model number must include some other cars (perhaps older / newer than the Mk V) as there are more than 1,000 silver ones.
 
Anyhow, the numbers on the licensed database at the end of 2010 were:
BLACK 988
BLUE    1
GREEN 1
GREY   1
RED     436
SILVER/ALUMINIUM      1391
WHITE  5

Thats very cool Verity let us know how you get on

A lot have been written off / broken for parts so its going to be interesting finding out how many are actually left.

6N2 GTI 00 wrote:Thats very cool Verity let us know how you get on

A lot have been written off / broken for parts so its going to be interesting finding out how many are actually left.

And your going to be selling yours lol

Mine will be sold but never forgotten

This is great Verity. Nice work. I was thinking of doing the same thing but you have beaten me to it. Our GTi's will probably start increasing in value quite soon due to the rarity of them. Look forward to their reply

6N2 GTI 00 wrote:Mine will be sold but never forgotten

Thats alright then lol

A few more years of these being broken up will then make it a modern classic just like mk 1 golfs and escorts. Then the price should rise.

I think they will rise eventually but the whole economy is on its arse at the moment so its unlikely they will go up in value anytime soon, the price for most classic cars such as Triumphs, Jaguar's, MG's etc have dropped heavily in the last 2 years.

The Polo GTI has never had the followers unfortunately which is why they are worth so little, the poor example GTI's have brought the price down for everyone else. The Lupo's and Golf GTI's are much more sought after and probably always will be.

This is well cool... So many breaking Gtis it's sad really but good for parts and that....

Would be nice to know still....

Yeah. -1 polo for mine! :'-(

Glad to see you guys are interested
Just looked in the mirror and my eyes are blood shot haha
I never want to see 'TRANSPORTER' or 'GOLF' written again!
They popped up soooo much in that table!!


I just hope the GTIs don't drop in price any more! A grand for one of these cars just doesnt feel right!
Lol It's depressing that the Lupo GTIs are still worth 4-6k

Verity wrote:Glad to see you guys are interested
Just looked in the mirror and my eyes are blood shot haha
I never want to see 'TRANSPORTER' or 'GOLF' written again!
They popped up soooo much in that table!!


I just hope the GTIs don't drop in price any more! A grand for one of these cars just doesnt feel right!
Lol It's depressing that the Lupo GTIs are still worth 4-6k

And seemingly lower spec'd aswell i thoguht when i looked into buy one.. Great work anyways

The 2000-2001 Lupo GTI's fetch the same price as a good Polo GTI.

Its the 02-05 Lupo GTI's that get the big bucks but even they have dropped in price recently.

Awesome idea Verity!! Let's all get stickers made when you get the results. (that's a half serious suggestion)

We'll start a thread and choose numbers between 1 and ????, have the stickers/vinyl produced and place them all on the same places on our cars








...I'll get me coat.

Haha well I do wish VW made number plaques, like they did for the golf ed30