For those of you interested, and indeed for those of you whove had bad experiences with customer service, following on from this thread:
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Helen Sullivan - Customer Services - excellent help, she got back to me today.
1.8 16v UK production figures:
1991 - 31
1992 - 1,574
1993 - 1,058
1994 - 836
1995 - 908
1996 - 278
There we go peeps, a total of 4,865 sold in the UK.