Mitsubishi model reference
Mitsubishi Colt
What our record holds on the Colt, sold in the UK 1978 to 2013: body styles, fuel types and the road tax a used one pays.
No reliability figure is published for the Mitsubishi Colt that this site could cite. What circulates instead is survey data from panels that select themselves, and warranty claim rates published by companies with something to sell.
Any percentage would be our own calculation. Which years count, and whether a facelift and a new generation sharing the Colt name are one model or two, both move the answer, and neither choice is anybody official's.
So the field does not exist. We do not average the other Mitsubishi models into a number and put it here, and we do not push a marque figure down onto the Colt. What is real and specific is the paperwork for one car.
No fault ordering is published for the Colt
A 2010 1.3 petrol at around 139 g/km is band E, £200 for twelve months in 2026/27.
That figure is a worked example for the year and engine named, not a rate for every Colt. Read the CO2 figure and the first registration date off the V5C before you budget, because both change the answer.
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Buying a used Colt: what the record settles
Our record puts the Colt's UK sales period at 1978 to 2013. That range is the useful starting point, because everything about the cost of running one turns on where a particular example sits inside it. It came in one body style here, hatchback, with 2 fuel types: petrol and diesel.
The Colt finished before the road tax change of 1 April 2017, so every one of them is taxed on its CO2 figure under the lettered bands. The badge on the boot tells you very little about that: within a single model year, engine, gearbox and wheel size can move a car between bands, and it is the figure printed on the V5C that gets charged. Read it off the document rather than trusting a rate you saw quoted for the model. The earliest ones predate 1 March 2001, and anything registered before that date is taxed on engine size in two bands rather than on CO2 at all. There is also a quirk worth knowing on the oldest examples: a car registered before 23 March 2006 cannot be charged above band K however high its emissions, so a thirsty old one can be cheaper to tax than a newer car a class below it.
For running costs the fuel matters more than the badge. On the diesels the emissions section is where a neglected car loses its certificate: the particulate filter is inspected and the smoke reading is measured against a limit, and a filter that has never had a long run to clear itself will not pass on a good intention.
None of that is a substitute for the record of the actual car. The invoices name what was replaced, when and at what mileage, and the same job appearing twice in three years says more about a Colt than any statistic about the model ever could. A mileage that goes backwards across a paperwork trail is worth walking away from whatever the badge is.
Mitsubishi sold cars in Britain from the 1970s through the Colt Car Company and stopped selling new ones here in 2021, so it is now purely a used market marque. The Outlander PHEV was the country's best selling plug-in hybrid for several years, largely because of the company car tax treatment at the time. Parts and servicing continue through the retained dealer network, but model specific electronics on the PHEV need someone who knows the system. That is context on the marque rather than on this car, and there is more of it, along with every other model line, on the Mitsubishi page.