How many of every car are left?
Type a registration to see that car’s class: the ones first registered in its year, and how many of them are still on the road. From DfT and DVLA licensing records.
Free, no account. The same registration opens that car’s MOT history, mileage and tax status.
Mercedes-Benz E Class, class of 2014
Example69.1% still on the road
- Licensed
- 18,702
- Off-road (SORN)
- 1,749
- Gone
- 6,596
Each car drawn is about 270 cars. Of the 27,047 first registered in 2014 that were on the road at their peak. UK, 2025.
Open this car’s free check
That is its class. The free check is the car itself: every MOT and advisory, the mileage trail and its tax status.
How many are left, by model and year
The 40 most common cars in Britain. Each year is a class: the share of the cars first registered that year that are still licensed. Choose a figure to draw that class, or a model for its full record.
 Ford Fiesta | 1,249,904 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Vauxhall Corsa | 902,410 | |||||||||
 Volkswagen Golf | 900,884 | |||||||||
| Ford Focus | 857,445 | |||||||||
 Nissan Qashqai | 684,098 | |||||||||
| Volkswagen Polo | 663,686 | |||||||||
 Toyota Yaris | 575,454 | |||||||||
| Vauxhall Astra | 527,414 | |||||||||
 MINI Cooper | 497,196 | |||||||||
 BMW 3 Series | 448,681 | |||||||||
 Audi A3 | 433,527 | |||||||||
 Fiat 500 | 423,199 | |||||||||
 Kia Sportage | 414,357 | |||||||||
| Nissan Juke | 406,533 | |||||||||
| BMW 1 Series | 392,139 | |||||||||
 Mercedes-Benz A Class | 378,535 | |||||||||
| Ford Kuga | 367,446 | |||||||||
 Honda Jazz | 344,971 | |||||||||
| Volkswagen Tiguan | 331,220 | |||||||||
| Mercedes-Benz C Class | 325,224 | |||||||||
 Renault Clio | 316,262 | |||||||||
| Vauxhall Mokka | 304,093 | – | ||||||||
| Toyota Aygo | 298,338 | |||||||||
 Hyundai i10 | 274,746 | |||||||||
| Audi A1 | 263,388 | |||||||||
 Land Rover Discovery | 254,393 | |||||||||
 Citroen C3 | 250,311 | |||||||||
 Peugeot 208 | 249,805 | |||||||||
| Ford Puma | 244,729 | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||
| Hyundai Tucson | 242,007 | – | ||||||||
 Skoda Fabia | 241,418 | |||||||||
| Honda Civic | 240,431 | |||||||||
| Audi A4 | 221,517 | |||||||||
| Land Rover Range Rover Evoque | 220,613 | |||||||||
| Kia Picanto | 217,822 | |||||||||
| Nissan Micra | 217,291 | |||||||||
| Skoda Octavia | 211,854 | |||||||||
 SEAT Ibiza | 203,938 | |||||||||
| Mercedes-Benz E Class | 201,079 | |||||||||
| Peugeot 2008 | 199,535 |
From a model, use the arrow keys to move across its years and between models. Enter draws the class.
Swipe the table sideways for later years.
Licensed, off-road and peak: Great Britain, DfT table VEH0120, 2026 Q1. Year columns: United Kingdom, DfT table VEH0124, 2025. The two are never added together. A dash means too few cars that year to draw a rate from.
Once everywhere, now nearly gone
Cars that had more than 100,000 on the road at some point since 1994, and have fewer than one in a hundred of them left. Choose one to draw it.
- 1,698,777on the road in 1994 12,342licensed now 1 in 138 left
- 1,231,963on the road in 1994 871licensed now 1 in 1,414 left
- 1,060,846on the road in 1994 1,719licensed now 1 in 617 left
- 710,604on the road in 1999 1,204licensed now 1 in 590 left
- 554,215on the road in 1994 245licensed now 1 in 2,262 left
- 456,680on the road in 1994 212licensed now 1 in 2,154 left
- 442,343on the road in 1994 577licensed now 1 in 767 left
- 395,756on the road in 2002 2,542licensed now 1 in 156 left
Great Britain, DfT table VEH0120. Records begin at the end of 1994, so a car already in decline by then had more on the road before. 1,000 of the 2,264 models on record have fewer than 100 left.
What the count shows
- The Ford Fiesta is still the most common car in Britain: 1,249,904 licensed, one in every 27 cars on the road.
- Of the cars first registered in 2014, the Honda Jazz has kept 96.8% on the road. The Mercedes-Benz E Class has kept 69.1%.
- The Nissan Micra has fallen furthest: 63% below its 2004 peak of 594,175.
- 20% of every BMW 3 Series still registered is declared off the road: 114,735 cars kept but not driven.
- There are 33,545,602 cars licensed in Great Britain. These 40 models are 48% of them.
- 1,000 models have fewer than 100 examples left. Search for one above and see how close it is.
A count says how many are left. It cannot say whether this one is worth buying.
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About the numbers
Where do the numbers come from?
The Department for Transport and DVLA publish vehicle licensing statistics every quarter. Counts of licensed and off-road cars are from table VEH0120 (Great Britain, 2026 Q1). The year-by-year figures are from table VEH0124 (United Kingdom, 2025), which begins with cars first registered in 2014.
What does off-road, or SORN, mean?
A car that is kept but not taxed has to be declared off the road with a Statutory Off Road Notification. It still exists and may come back, so it is counted apart from the cars that are licensed, and apart from the cars that have gone.
Why do the newest years have no percentage?
A class is measured against the most of it that were ever on the road at once. For the three youngest years that peak is still today’s count, so the answer would read 100% and mean nothing.
Why is my car not in the table?
The table covers the 40 most common models. The search above covers all 2,264 models DVLA records, and a registration finds the car’s own model for you. Some trims are counted under their parent model, as DVLA groups them.
The full dataset
Every generic model, not just the 40 with pages, with its licensed and SORN counts and its peak, one row per model.
To cite a figure:
DfT/DVLA vehicle licensing statistics (table VEH0120), 2026 Q1, via autospect.co.uk/how-many-left
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Cells of 1–4 vehicles are suppressed at source, so very small counts can read slightly low.