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Mini Moke values: the dearest thing built on a Mini floorpan

A doorless utility vehicle that sells for three times a Mini saloon. Mini Moke prices from 190 recorded auction sales, the usual range, what the £69,750 record car was, and why the sale rooms lump every Moke under one name.

A bright yellow 1966 Austin Mini Moke with its canvas tilt raised and a UK registration on a show field
A 1966 Austin Moke. One hundred and ninety recorded sales at a median of £15,600, which is more than a good Mini Cooper makes. Photo by kitmasterbloke / CC BY 2.0

What the Mini Moke sells for at auction

£10k£20k£30k2010201520202025
Median sold price by year, with the dashed line restated in 2025 money. Hollow final dot: the current, incomplete year.
Median sold price£15,600
Typical range£11,500 to £20,998
Comes to auction~18 times a year
Sell-through82% of cars offered

In 2025 the median Mini Moke sold for £17,495 across 24 sales, 4% up on 2024. In real terms, typical Mini Moke prices were down about 32% over the five years to 2025, once inflation is accounted for.

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Mini Moke median sold price by year, nominal and adjusted for inflation
YearSoldMedian In 2025 money
2026 (so far)18£15,207
202524£17,495£17,495
202415£16,875£17,523
202316£19,854£21,305
202222£15,314£17,539
202111£18,224£22,535
202019£20,368£25,811
20196£17,139£21,940
201810£14,870£19,359
20177£16,666£22,200
20168£14,784£20,201
20154£10,615£14,649
20144£14,700£20,367
20133£11,730£16,484
20123£10,229£14,704
20114£14,246£21,004
201010£9,630£14,749
20094£11,004£17,276
Recent sales
  • £17,140Mini MokeBring A Trailer, 6 August 2026
  • £11,250Mini MokeIconic Auctioneers, 25 July 2026
  • £10,296Mini MokeHistorics, 18 July 2026
  • £32,502Mini MokeBring A Trailer, 17 July 2026
  • £11,205Mini MokeBarons Manor Park, 11 July 2026

Reasonable evidence. 190 recorded sales: enough for the range to mean something, though a few unusual cars can still move a single year's median. Based on 190 sold results from public classic car auctions (2003 to 10 August 2026). Sold prices, not asking prices, and not a valuation: condition, history and specification vary from car to car. Inflation-adjusted figures use the ONS CPIH index, in 2025 money.

The Moke is the most expensive thing anyone ever built on a Mini floorpan. Mini Moke values sit at a median of £15,600 across 190 recorded sales since 2003, with the middle half between £11,500 and £20,998, which is more than a good Mini Cooper makes and roughly three times an ordinary Mini saloon. Four in five cars offered find a buyer, about 18 change hands a year, and the spread runs from a £2,449 project to £69,750 for one exceptional car.

The Mini Moke guide covers the failed military vehicle, the British, Australian and Portuguese production and what to check before buying one. This page is about the money, and about a market where the price has almost nothing to do with the car.

Three times a Mini, for less of a car

There is no mechanical case for the Moke’s premium. It is a Mini subframe structure with a flat steel body, no doors, no weather protection worth the name and, in British form, a 998cc engine. It is slower, wetter and less practical than the saloon it is based on, and it sells for about three times as much.

The reasons are scarcity and image. Around 14,500 were built at Longbridge against more than five million Minis, and the great majority of those went abroad, so British survivors are genuinely rare. And the Moke carries an association with beaches, holiday islands and film sets that puts it in front of buyers who would never look at a classic saloon. That is a fashion premium, and fashion premiums are the ones that move fastest in both directions, which is exactly what the chart below shows.

A dark green Morris Mini Moke with cream seats and a UK registration parked on grass at a classic car show
A Morris-badged British Moke. The home-market cars are the scarce ones, because almost all of the 14,500 built at Longbridge were exported.Photo by kitmasterbloke / CC BY 2.0

One name, four countries, and a record that cannot tell them apart

This page has no variant table, and the reason is worth stating rather than hiding. The sale rooms list almost every one of these cars as simply “Mini Moke” whatever its origin, so unlike the MGB or the E-Type there is no reliable way to separate the British Longbridge cars from the Australian and Portuguese ones in the recorded sales.

That matters because the received wisdom, that British cars are the scarcest and most collectable and the later foreign-built ones the more usable, is probably right and is not something this data can confirm. Any price guide quoting you a separate median for a British Moke is working from a smaller and less honest sample than this one. Treat the £11,500 to £20,998 range as the market for a good Moke of any origin, and judge the individual car and its paperwork rather than its birthplace.

A yellow late-model Mini Moke with a roll cage and a UK registration displayed indoors among other classics
A later car. The sale rooms list almost everything as "Mini Moke" whatever its origin, which is why this record has no variant table.Photo by kitmasterbloke / CC BY 2.0

Down about 40% from the 2020 peak

The yearly median ran £20,368 in 2020, £18,224 in 2021, £15,314 in 2022, £19,854 in 2023, £16,875 in 2024 and £17,495 in 2025, with 2026 at about £15,207 so far. Restated in today’s money that is £25,811 falling to £15,207, a drop of around 40% in six years.

The caveat matters more here than on most pages. Eighteen sales a year is a thin market, and a median built on a dozen or so cars moves when one restored example or one project turns up. The 2023 rise to £19,854 and the 2025 figure of £17,495 are both within the noise of a market this size. What survives the noise is the shape: the Moke ran up hard into 2020 along with everything else with a lifestyle image attached, and it has drifted down since while the cost of everything else went up.

Where Mokes change hands

Mostly through British catalogued sales and the online platforms rather than the regional rooms, because a £15,000 car with a fashion following is not something a general sale handles well. The recent record shows the working range clearly: £11,205, £10,296 and £11,250 for ordinary cars in the summer of 2026, £17,140 for a good one, and £32,502 for something exceptional, all inside a few weeks. That £32,502 is roughly where the ceiling for a very good ordinary Moke sits; the £69,750 record is a different kind of car, bought for its history rather than its specification. Whether a recorded price includes the buyer’s premium varies by sale, which is one more reason to read the usual range rather than any single result.

A 1962 Austin Twini Moke prototype with twin engines, displayed as a museum exhibit
The twin-engined Twini prototype of 1962, the army's answer to a vehicle that could not clear a kerb. Prototypes and one-offs sit outside the ordinary range entirely.Photo by Andrew Bone / CC BY 2.0

Insuring, restoring, selling

For an agreed-value policy a good Moke belongs in the upper half of its range rather than at the median, and an original British car with history needs its own figure. On restoration the Moke is unusual among cheap-to-buy classics in that the sums can work: at £15,600 for a finished car there is more headroom than an A35 or a Herald allows, but the structure is the whole job and a car that has lived by the sea can absorb everything you have. If you are selling, originality and paperwork do the work, the season matters more than it does for any other classic on this site, and the photograph that sells a Moke is the one taken somewhere sunny.

The Moke sits above every other member of the family, including the Mini Cooper that made the marque’s name. Its nearest equivalents in spirit are the beach-buggy conversions of the period rather than anything Longbridge built. For the period, see British classic cars of the 1960s and 1970s. For how all the figures on this site are compiled, see what classic cars sell for.

Quick answers

Frequently asked questions

How much is a Mini Moke worth?

Across 190 recorded auction sales the median Mini Moke made £15,600, and the middle half sold between about £11,500 and £20,998. That makes it the most valuable thing built on a Mini floorpan: a good Moke sells for roughly three times a comparable Mini saloon and comfortably above a Mini Cooper. Rough and incomplete cars change hands from around £2,449, the lowest sale in the record, restored cars reach the high twenties and beyond, and the highest recorded sale is £69,750.

Why is a Mini Moke worth more than a Mini?

Scarcity and fashion, in that order. Around 14,500 were built in Britain before production moved abroad, against more than five million Minis, and the great majority of British Mokes were exported, so home-market survivors are genuinely rare. On top of that the Moke has an image no saloon can touch: beaches, film sets and holiday islands, which puts it in front of buyers who are not otherwise classic-car buyers at all. What it is not is more car. It is a doorless, weatherless utility vehicle with a 1-litre engine, and the price is for what it represents.

Are Mini Moke prices rising?

They peaked around 2020 and have drifted down since. The yearly auction median ran £20,368 in 2020, £18,224 in 2021, £15,314 in 2022, £19,854 in 2023, £16,875 in 2024 and £17,495 in 2025, with 2026 at about £15,207 so far. Restated in today's money that is a fall of roughly 40% from the 2020 peak. Read the yearly figures loosely: this market turns over about 18 cars a year, so a single restored car or a single project moves a median that is built on a dozen or so sales.

What was the most expensive Mini Moke sold?

£69,750, more than four times the median, which is the kind of gap you see when a market is driven by provenance rather than by specification. Nothing about a Moke's mechanical package justifies that money: the interest is in originality, history and, in the best cases, a connection to the places and productions that made the Moke famous. Below that the ceiling for an ordinary excellent car is nearer £30,000, and £32,502 appears in the recent record as an outlier at the top of normal trading.

Should I buy a British, Australian or Portuguese Moke?

The record cannot answer that, which is worth knowing before anyone quotes you a figure. Almost every car in the sale rooms is listed simply as Mini Moke regardless of where it was built, so there are no variant rows in this data and no reliable median for the British cars on their own. What is generally true is that the British Longbridge cars are the scarcest and the most sought after by collectors, and that the later Australian and Portuguese cars, built with larger wheels and different equipment, are the more usable ones. Judge the individual car, and be sceptical of any price guide claiming precision here.

What should I check before buying a Mini Moke?

The floorpan and the box sections, because a Moke is a Mini subframe structure with no roof to stiffen it and nowhere for water to go but down. The sills, the front and rear subframe mountings, the floor seams and the battery box are where the money hides, and a Moke that has spent its life on a beach has spent it in salt. After that check what it actually is: the market pays a premium for original British cars, and rebodied, re-shelled and kit-assembled vehicles are common enough that paperwork matters as much as metal at this price.

How often does a Mini Moke come up for sale?

Frequently, by classic-car standards: roughly 18 sell at auction each year, and 82% of the cars offered find a buyer. There is a steady supply, so it pays to wait for a good one rather than stretch for the first car you see.
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