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Harley-Davidson Forty Eight motorcycles: how many are still registered?
532still registered
Harley-Davidson Forty Eight motorcycles still registered with DVLA (licensed or SORN), across 2 recorded variants.
Most recorded on UK roads at once: 616 (2015 Q2) - 86.3% of that peak survives.
Disappearing at about 0.8% a year (the 2020–2025 trend). If that rate continued: around 507 in 2030.
211 of the survivors (39.6%) are declared off-road (SORN) rather than taxed.
86.3% survives 2015 Q2 peak: 616
Every motorcycle drawn here is one still on the register. Pick variants on the left to colour them in.
By year
All 532 surviving Harley-Davidson Forty Eight motorcycles, by the year each was built - not how many were on the road at the time. Across every year, 98 of these cars have gone since 2014, leaving 83.9% 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 Harley-Davidson Forty Eight motorcycles registered (licensed or SORN) at the end of each year.
Engine size and fuel
What is on the road now: the surviving Harley-Davidson Forty Eight 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.