The Top 10 best-sellers chart during almost the entire 1980s was occupied exclusively by cars from Ford, BL/Austin Rover, and Vauxhall.  The idea of the likes of Audi and BMW nicking at the sales heels of Ford as they do today would have seemed ludicrous.

But what has happened to the decade’s big sellers? They’re rapidly dying off – but some more rapidly than others. Using data from the How Many Left? website, we’ve taken some famous ‘80s big-selling nameplates, stating their sales during the decade, the number of survivors in 1995 (when the data began), and their survival numbers today, and deriving a survival rating from that. Data concerns cars registered as on the road, and excludes those on a SORN.