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Lotus Europa: how many are still registered?

652still registered

Lotus Europa cars still registered with DVLA (licensed or SORN), across 6 recorded variants.

247 of the survivors (37.8%) 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 on the left to colour them in.

Declared off-road (SORN)247 · 37.8%

Derivatives

DVLA also registers other body types under the Lotus Europa nameplate. Each is counted on its own page, so every figure on this one is cars only.

Lotus Europa vans1still reg.

By year

All 652 surviving Lotus Europa cars, by the year each was built - not how many were on the road at the time. DVLA records a build year for only 368 of them; the rest are registered without one and cannot be placed on the year-built bars.

Year built1971 → 2010
100500
19712010
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On the road over time

Total Lotus Europa cars registered (licensed or SORN) at the end of each year.

643
1994log scale2026: 643
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Engine size and fuel

What is on the road now: the surviving Lotus Europa 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

1401cc to 1500cc112 cars · 17.1%
1501cc to 1600cc379 cars · 58.1%
1601cc to 1700cc26 cars · 3.9%
1901cc to 2000cc122 cars · 18.7%
2001cc to 2100cc5 cars · 0.7%
Other sizes (6)8 cars · 1.2%

Fuel

Petrol652 · 100%

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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.