Daimler V8: how many are still registered?
1,563still registered
Daimler V8 cars still registered with DVLA (licensed or SORN), across 3 recorded variants.
431 of the survivors (27.5%) are declared off-road (SORN) rather than taxed.
One car drawn per 10 on the road - there are too many left to draw one each. Pick variants from the list to colour them in.
Derivatives
DVLA also registers other body types under the Daimler V8 nameplate. Each is counted on its own page, so every figure on this one is cars only.
By year
All 1,563 surviving Daimler V8 cars, by the year each was built - not how many were on the road at the time. DVLA records a build year for only 765 of them; the rest are registered without one and cannot be placed on the year-built bars. Across every year, 132 of these cars have gone since 2014, leaving 85.2% 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.
Cars 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. DVLA's first-registration series starts in 2001, well after the Daimler V8 was being sold new, so these are almost entirely imports rather than the car's original sales.
On the road over time
Total Daimler V8 cars registered (licensed or SORN) at the end of each year, and at the latest quarter DfT has published.
Engine size and fuel
What is on the road now: the surviving Daimler V8 cars 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.