Remaining A2's in the UK

Here's a link to a web page with the stats:

http://www.alancooper.me.uk/A2/A2_stats.htm

Here's the links to the individual stats in the above page - all are images

http://www.alancooper.me.uk/A2/A2_Registrations_by_Model_&_Year.jpg
http://www.alancooper.me.uk/A2/A2_Regs_by_Model_&_Engine_Capacity.jpg
http://www.alancooper.me.uk/A2/A2_Grey.jpg
http://www.alancooper.me.uk/A2/A2_Registrations_by_Model_Year_&_Plate.jpg
http://www.alancooper.me.uk/A2/A2_Regis_by_Colour_Model_Year.jpg
http://www.alancooper.me.uk/A2/A2_Registrations_by_County.jpg
http://www.alancooper.me.uk/A2/A2_90BHP_by_Colour.jpg
http://www.alancooper.me.uk/A2/A2_White.jpg
http://www.alancooper.me.uk/A2/A2_Distribution_by_Colour.gif

Beware that the data look imperfect; probably due to poor DVLA data entry or poor dealer completion of the registration forms.

and some other stats
http://www.alancooper.me.uk/A2/Audi_Markets_2006.jpg
http://www.alancooper.me.uk/A2/Audi_manufactured.jpg
http://www.alancooper.me.uk/A2/A2_manufactured.jpg
 
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No unfortunately i was only given summary figures and no detailed information as when i asked for this i was told that it is not the sort of information that they give out!

Thanks
Chris
 
loudchris53 said:
No unfortunately i was only given summary figures and no detailed information as when i asked for this i was told that it is not the sort of information that they give out!

Thanks
Chris
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That's sad. I had thought of trying again and hoping not to get the same person and getting rejected again. An update to my data would reflect the final A2 that were sold.The problem is they and other gov depts are now selling their data and in the current fiscal climate I see more of that happening.

If you want any more queries from my data then just ask.
 
Yes quite, i got reffered to experian and after contacting them i was told that i could buy the data!!! are they joking

Chris
 
based on the June 2010 stats of 18,233 (see start of this thread) then there has been a reduction of 127 over 57 months, so that is a reduction of 2.2 per month. On that basis the last A2 will go in the year 2679 ;)
 
I've just edited the wikipedia section, there's some newer information from the German side which is almost interesting.....

Bret
 
chubbybrown said:
dont they have to tell you with freedom of information?
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This is the reply I got back in 2008

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Section 12 of the FOIA exempts the DVLA from complying with a request where the cost in determining whether we hold the information, and locating, retrieving and extracting the information exceeds £600.

This represents the estimated cost of one person spending 3.5 days (or 24 hours) maximum costed at £25.00 per hour. This costing is set out in the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004.

Collating the information and the scan itself (design, development & execute) would take 6 days work in total for DVLA and our IT partners. This is delineated in to 1 days design work, 3 days development and 2 days unit testing. The process may seem long winded but any one-off bespoke scan would have to follow the stages that systems work requires to ensure that the work is necessary (as there are numerous other demands in terms of systems work needed), would provide the desired output and also would have no detrimental effect on the day to day running of our systems for statutory purposes.

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I subsequently sent them a model extraction code which took me 30 mins to code.

(SELECT
v.Model, v.Colour, v.1st_Reg, v.Imported, v.Exported, v.Eng_Cap,
LEFT(Post_Code,1) AS Post_Town , count(*) as No
FROM dvla.vehicles v
where Make = "Audi" and LEFT(model,2) = "A2" and Mid(Post_Code,2,1) >=
"0" and Mid(Post_Code,2,1) <= "9"
group by v.Model, v.Colour, v.1st_Reg, v.Imported, v.Exported, v.Eng_Cap,
Post_Town
)
UNION
(
SELECT
v.Model, v.Colour, v.1st_Reg, v.Imported, v.Exported, v.Eng_Cap,
LEFT(Post_Code,2) AS Post_Town , count(*) as No
FROM dvla.vehicles v
where Make = "Audi" and LEFT(model,2) = "A2" and Mid(Post_Code,2,1) >=
"A" and Mid(Post_Code,2,1) <= "Z"
group by v.Model, v.Colour, v.1st_Reg, v.Imported, v.Exported, v.Eng_Cap,
Post_Town
)
order by Post_Town


They replied "interesting" but made no change to their 6 day quote. They spent more time, effort and money telling me why they couldn't do it than actually doing it :(
 
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Ok so we know how many A2s are alive in the UK so what proportion of those are represented on the forum?

How many get sold 2nd hand every year I wonder?
 
In relation to the Orange A2, there is an Orange 1.4 Petrol SE with white / cream leather in the Streatham Hill area of London. It's a lovely looking vehicle.

Of those low numbered colours, I am sure that with spec / options there are some completely unique cars.
 
Very interesting, would have guessed 8 to 10k. Pity colour number details arent specific for all colours eg "maroon", a specific colour, whereas "blue" covers a number of blues Thank you
 
After reading through this thread I am now wondering 4 years down the line what the survival rate is now and how many are left on our roads in July 2014!
 
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