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the time the data is released, more MiTos will have gone on their journey across the MiTo rainbow bridge. So the data is split into four engine types: - 0.9 TwinAir - 1.4 Petrol (all TB and MultiAir) - 1.4 GPL - 1.3 Diesel (all engines) - 1.6 Diesel For those who are unsure about GPL, that is ‘gas di petrolio liquefatto’, Italian for LPG or liq-uid petroleum gas - not sold in MiTo form in the UK. It is currently not possible to split that data into any further granularity, but I hope in future we can obtain the manufacturing data that will allow matching to the DVLA data which, although not entirely accurate, at least splits the data not only by the model entered by the dealer but also the model variant that I go

Some months ago, I wrote an article entitled ‘How Many MiTos Were Built?’. And today, I find myself writing the same article, but with better data. Alfa Romeo are inherently poor at releasing manufactur-ing data and, despite numerous requests, I still await a detailed breakdown of MiTo factory output from Mirafiori. Truth-fully, I’m not convinced I will ever receive it, but I’ll perse-vere while they are politely telling me it will take a few more months. But the updated data can be seen in the table at the bottom of this page; we finally have the total output of every MiTo up to and including the final pro-duction date after which the plant began recommissioning (and now produces the Masera-ti Levante). So 293,428 MiTos came out of the factory, having peaked at 65,342 MiTo production in 2009 then declining significant-ly until a brief reprise in 2016 (the facelift). I should say, fairly obviously, that this no longer represents the total number of MiTos out there in the world - I suspect a few thousand will have passed on to the Museo Storico in the sky. But it gives you an idea of the broad number that did ex-ist, albeit not split by country… yet. Like the nerd I am, I perform a count of MiTos in this country every quarter or so when our DVLA release their figures, but it is never 100% accurate as, by

How Many MiTos Were Built? The final numbers are finally in from Italy

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on about so much. What I do find interesting is the percentage of MiTos that we have in the UK. The table on the next page shows the split of MiTos regis-tered in the UK (based on the latest published figures from the DVLA) across each engine type, and shows that as a percentage

of overall MiTos manufactured. So currently in the UK, we have a total of 23,331 MiTos which represents 7.95% of all MiTos in the world. Of course, any statisticians among you will know that this is meaningless as it doesn’t factor in the decline of the MiTo from our roads over the years. So

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Total

Mito TwinAir - - - - 1,883 2,521 5,511 3,376 2,092 1,175 860 17,418

MiTo 1.4 Petrol 15,565 39,725 28,075 22,608 12,035 8,004 3,620 5,603 7,970 5,706 4,656 153,567

MiTo 1.4 GPL - 980 6,340 91 1,735 1,427 962 577 606 320 831 13,869

MiTo 1.3 Diesel - 11,663 11,003 15,026 8,177 7,052 6,003 4,040 3,996 3,705 1,927 72,592

MiTo 1.6 Diesel 9,194 12,974 7,673 3,352 1,027 651 798 313 - - - 35,982

24,759 65,342 53,091 41,077 24,857 19,655 16,894 13,909 14,664 10,906 8,274 293,428

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How Many MiTos Were Built? The final numbers are finally in from Italy

those figures will get progres-sively lower as each year passes (now no new MiTos will be sold in the UK, other than perhaps a handful that might pop up from the back a dealer somewhere). The only way to establish ac-curate figures of how many of the total MiTos manufactured ended up on our shores is to obtain that export data from Alfa Romeo. But the figure that jumps out at me is that we took over 25% of all TwinAirs manufactured. This aligns with two aspects of the UK that would appeal to sales of the TwinAir: firstly the smaller engine significantly affected young-age driver insur-ance prices, and secondly the zero-rated vehicle excise duty applied to cars with less than 100g/km of CO2 emissions.

At 98g/km, the TwinAir launched in the UK in July 2012 with a real emphasis on how clean it was. That and the official combined cycle fuel economy of 67.3mpg (good luck achieving that) along with cheap FCA fi-nance and a five year warranty offered on all initial sales, the youngsters (or their parents) formed an orderly queue. The reality of course is that of those 293,428 MiTos ever built, probably around 265,000 went to countries other than the UK. Over 90% of all MiTos are outside our small island, with the majori-ty on mainland Europe, some in Japan and some in Australia. My original plan for acquiring, analysing and publishing accurate data for the MiTo at a granular level was that it would all be done by now. But I have to con-

World UK %

Mito TwinAir 17,418 4,461 25.61%

MiTo 1.4 Petrol 153,567 14,863 9.68%

MiTo 1.4 GPL 13,869 - -

MiTo 1.3 Diesel 72,592 2,606 3.59%

MiTo 1.6 Diesel 35,982 1,401 3.89%

293,428 23,331 7.95%

fess that obtaining the data is proving very difficult. I am confident that Alfa Ro-meo are not being difficult, they are just incredible slow. Or disor-ganised and simply don’t have or can’t get their hands on the data. Which doesn’t surprise me. Our

DVLA are just as bad, though to be fair they try very hard. You’ll be the first to hear when I get all the data, and to both of you who find it interesting, I will try to publish it in full. But like so many things with Alfa Romeos, patience is a virtue.

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