Lotus Elan: how many are still registered?
4,602still registered
Lotus Elan cars still registered with DVLA (licensed or SORN), across 12 recorded variants.
1,863 of the survivors (40.4%) 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.
By year
All 4,602 surviving Lotus Elan cars, by the year each was built - not how many were on the road at the time. DVLA records a build year for only 2,956 of them; the rest are registered without one and cannot be placed on the year-built bars.
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 Lotus Elan was being sold new, so these are almost entirely imports rather than the car's original sales.
On the road over time
Total Lotus Elan 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 Lotus Elan 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.