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Renault 8
The Renault 8 (Renault R8 until 1964) is a small family car produced by the French manufacturer Renault in the 1960s and early 1970s. It is a four-door saloon car with a rear-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout. The 8 also formed the basis for the larger Renault 10, introduced in 1965. The 8 was launched in 1962 and ceased production and sales in France in 1976. By then the related Renault 10 had already been replaced, two years earlier, by the front wheel drive Renault 12. They were produced in Bulgaria until 1970 (see Bulgarrenault), and an adapted version of the Renault 8 continued to be produced in Spain until 1976. In Romania, a version of the 8 was produced under license between 1968 and 1972 as the Dacia 1100. In total 37,546 Dacia 1100s were built.
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UK vehicles on the road
59 licensed and 27 SORN (86 total) at 2025 Q4.
| Year (latest quarter) | Vehicles |
|---|---|
| 2014 | 67 |
| 2015 | 71 |
| 2016 | 71 |
| 2017 | 76 |
| 2018 | 76 |
| 2019 | 78 |
| 2020 | 76 |
| 2021 | 80 |
| 2022 | 81 |
| 2023 | 78 |
| 2024 | 83 |
| 2025 | 86 |
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/Q578088CC0 / CC BY-SA 4.0
- Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_8CC BY-SA 4.0 · Intro text © Wikipedia contributors; revision 1371782008 · 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.