Reliant · 1975–1982
Reliant Kitten
The Reliant Kitten is a small four-wheeled economy car which was manufactured from 1975 to 1982 in saloon, van and estate variants by the Reliant Motor Company in Tamworth, England. It was Reliant's second attempt at selling in the small car economy market after the 1960s Reliant Rebel. The Kitten is based around the design of the original 1970s Reliant Robin and was the first production car to use Reliant's 850 cc engine. Even though UK production ended in 1982 the whole production assembly was sold to Indian firm Sipani Automobiles where production ran until the mid 1990s.
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UK vehicles on the road
172 licensed and 223 SORN (395 total) at 2025 Q4.
| Year (latest quarter) | Vehicles |
|---|---|
| 2014 | 310 |
| 2015 | 326 |
| 2016 | 335 |
| 2017 | 347 |
| 2018 | 365 |
| 2019 | 371 |
| 2020 | 378 |
| 2021 | 379 |
| 2022 | 386 |
| 2023 | 386 |
| 2024 | 390 |
| 2025 | 395 |
DfT/DVLA VEH0120 vehicle licensing statistics, source ↗, Open Government Licence v3.0. Small counts are rounded or suppressed at source.
Sources
- Wikidata / Wikipedia profiles — https://models.autoculturesociety.com/cars/Q1394749CC0 / CC BY-SA 4.0
- Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliant_KittenCC BY-SA 4.0 · Intro text © Wikipedia contributors; revision 1351556775 · retrieved 2026-10-03
- DfT/DVLA VEH0120 licensing statistics — https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/vehicle-licensing-statistics-data-tablesOpen Government Licence v3.0
- Car Model Index — https://models.autoculturesociety.com/Compiled record. Sources that do not permit reuse are not copied; this index is credited instead.