TALBOT · TALBOT ALPINE · Cars
Genuinely rare — only 64 left on UK roads.
Rarer than 64% of the 2,408 UK car models we track.
Disappearing at about 1 a year (1.9% of survivors). At that pace roughly 58 would remain in 5 years, and half the current fleet is gone by around ~2062.
The Chrysler Alpine, or Simca 1307, is a large family car produced by Chrysler Europe and subsequently PSA Peugeot Citroën from 1975 to 1986. Codenamed 'C6' in development, the car was styled in the United Kingdom by Roy Axe and his team at Whitley, and the car was engineered by Simca at Poissy in France. A modern, front-wheel drive hatchback, it was one of the earliest such cars in the large family class along with the Renault 20/Renault 30 and Volkswagen Passat, and became the 1976 European Car of the Year. It had been in development since 1972. The model was marketed variously as the Simca...
As of 2025 Q4, 64 TALBOT ALPINE were still registered in the UK — 19 licensed and on the road, plus 45 declared SORN (off-road). The figures come from official DVLA vehicle licensing data.
The TALBOT ALPINE is genuinely rare, with only 64 left, making it rarer than 64% of the 2,408 UK car models we track.
Over the last year the number of TALBOT ALPINE on UK roads rose by 3 (4.9%). At the current rate of decline, roughly 58 would remain in 5 years.
Most TALBOT ALPINE run on petrol — about 100% of those still registered.
The TALBOT ALPINE peaked at 68 registered in 2021 Q3, and was first recorded in the data in 2014 Q3.