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Land Rover Defender lorries: how many are still registered?
160still registered
Land Rover Defender lorries still registered with DVLA (licensed or SORN), across 17 recorded variants.
10 of the survivors (6.2%) are declared off-road (SORN) rather than taxed.
Every lorry drawn here is one still on the register. Pick variants on the left to colour them in.
Derivatives
DVLA also registers other body types under the Land Rover Defender nameplate. Each is counted on its own page, so every figure on this one is lorries only.
By year
All 160 surviving Land Rover Defender lorries, by the year each was built - not how many were on the road at the time. Across every year, 3 of these cars have gone since 2014, leaving 85.0% 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.
Lorries 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 Land Rover Defender was being sold new, so these are almost entirely imports rather than the car's original sales.
On the road over time
Total Land Rover Defender lorries registered (licensed or SORN) at the end of each year.
Engine size and fuel
What is on the road now: the surviving Land Rover Defender lorries 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.