Talbot · 1981–1986
Talbot Samba
The Talbot Samba is a city car manufactured by the PSA Group in the former Simca factory in Poissy, France, and marketed under the short-lived modern-day Talbot brand from 1981 to 1986. Based on the Peugeot 104, it and the Talbot Express were the only Talbots not inherited from Chrysler Europe, engineered by PSA alone. It was also the last new Talbot car to be launched. Its demise in 1986 was effectively the end of the Talbot brand for passenger cars. Launched initially as a three-door hatchback, it was also for some time the only small car available in a factory-ordered cabrio body style, and the most economical car in Europe.
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UK vehicles on the road
32 licensed and 127 SORN (159 total) at 2025 Q4.
| Year (latest quarter) | Vehicles |
|---|---|
| 2014 | 129 |
| 2015 | 136 |
| 2016 | 139 |
| 2017 | 147 |
| 2018 | 144 |
| 2019 | 150 |
| 2020 | 156 |
| 2021 | 155 |
| 2022 | 155 |
| 2023 | 154 |
| 2024 | 152 |
| 2025 | 159 |
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/Q629268CC0 / CC BY-SA 4.0
- Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talbot_SambaCC BY-SA 4.0 · Intro text © Wikipedia contributors; revision 1373786630 · 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.