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Ford Transit Custom buses and coaches: how many are still registered?

450still registered

Ford Transit Custom buses and coaches still registered with DVLA (licensed or SORN), across 33 recorded variants.

Most recorded on UK roads at once: 496 (2018 Q2) - 90.7% of that peak survives.

Disappearing at about 1.0% a year (the 2020–2025 trend). If that rate continued: around 425 in 2030.

67 of the survivors (14.8%) are declared off-road (SORN) rather than taxed.

90.7% survives 2018 Q2 peak: 496

Declared off-road (SORN)67 · 14.8%
Disappearing per year1.0%
Projected 2030~425

Derivatives

DVLA also registers other body types under the Ford Transit Custom nameplate. Each is counted on its own page, so every figure on this one is buses and coaches only.

Ford Transit Custom cars4,494still reg.Ford Transit Custom vans527,883still reg.Ford Transit Custom lorries1still reg.

By year

All 450 surviving Ford Transit Custom buses and coaches, by the year each was built - not how many were on the road at the time. Across every year, 27 of these cars have gone since 2014, leaving 83.2% 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.

Year built1993 → 2025
150750
19932025
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On the road over time

Total Ford Transit Custom buses and coaches registered (licensed or SORN) at the end of each year.

494
1994log scale2026: 431
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Engine size and fuel

What is on the road now: the surviving Ford Transit Custom buses and coaches 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

1901cc to 2000cc190 buses and coaches · 42.2%
2101cc to 2200cc255 buses and coaches · 56.6%
2401cc to 2500cc4 buses and coaches · 0.8%
2501cc to 2600cc1 buses and coaches · 0.2%

Fuel

Diesel430 · 95.5%
Petrol20 · 4.4%

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Source: 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.