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Mr. Nicholas Brown
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what is the average cubic capacity of engines of cars registered in the last year for which figures are available, for (a) United Kingdom-produced cars and (b) imported cars.
Mr. Chope
The information, as requested, is not available.However, the distribution of cars first registered in Great Britain in 1991 by engine size is as follows:
| Cars first registered in 1991 | ||
| Cubic capacity | Great Britain produced thousands | Imported thousands |
| up to 1000 | 32 | 71 |
| 1001 – 1200 | 106 | 61 |
| 1201 – 1300 | 65 | 74 |
| 1301 – 1400 | 153 | 94 |
| 1401 – 1500 | 1 | 21 |
| 1501 – 1600 | 191 | 106 |
| 1601 – 1800 | 53 | 173 |
Cubic capacity
| Great Britain produced thousands
| Imported thousands
|
| 1801–2000 | 95 | 199 |
| 2001–2200 | 0 | 4 |
| 2201–2500 | 11 | 31 |
| 2501–3000 | 4 | 31 |
| over 3000 | 14 | 9 |
| Total | 726 | 874 |
| Average c.c. | 1492 | 1606 |