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Buell Lightning motorcycles: how many are still registered?
781still registered
Buell Lightning motorcycles still registered with DVLA (licensed or SORN), across 9 recorded variants.
Most recorded on UK roads at once: 1,449 (2009 Q4) - 53.8% of that peak survives.
Disappearing at about 0.6% a year (the 2020–2025 trend). If that rate continued: around 756 in 2030.
499 of the survivors (63.8%) are declared off-road (SORN) rather than taxed.
53.8% survives 2009 Q4 peak: 1,449
One motorcycle drawn per 10 on the road - there are too many left to draw one each. Pick variants on the left to colour them in.
Derivatives
DVLA also registers other body types under the Buell Lightning nameplate. Each is counted on its own page, so every figure on this one is motorcycles only.
By year
All 781 surviving Buell Lightning motorcycles, by the year each was built - not how many were on the road at the time. Across every year, 47 of these cars have gone since 2014, leaving 94.3% of the 2014 figure. That is the earliest real count of the same cars: DVLA publishes no production figures, so nothing here is a count of how many were built.
Motorcycles joining a UK register each year, and how many of that year's arrivals are still registered now (the darker part of each bar). For an import this is the year it arrived, not the year it was built.
On the road over time
Total Buell Lightning motorcycles registered (licensed or SORN) at the end of each year.
Engine size and fuel
What is on the road now: the surviving Buell Lightning motorcycles split by engine capacity and by fuel, as recorded 2025. Engine sizes are DVLA's own bands and cover only the cars it holds a capacity for.
Engine size
Fuel
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Check a reg freeSource: DVLA vehicle licensing statistics (DfT). Counts as of 2025, licensed and SORN vehicles both included. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Survivor counts are national registration figures, not a guarantee any particular car exists or is roadworthy - check a specific reg free.