Mazda MX-5: how many are still registered?
116,397still registered
Mazda MX-5 cars still registered with DVLA (licensed or SORN), across 103 recorded variants.
Most recorded on UK roads at once: 121,105 (2019 Q3) - 96.1% of that peak survives.
Disappearing at about 1.1% a year (the 2020–2025 trend). If that rate continued: around 110,132 in 2030.
29,580 of the survivors (25.4%) are declared off-road (SORN) rather than taxed.
96.1% survives 2019 Q3 peak: 121,105
One car drawn per 1,000 on the road - there are too many left to draw one each. Pick variants on the left to colour them in.
Derivatives
DVLA also registers other body types under the Mazda MX-5 nameplate. Each is counted on its own page, so every figure on this one is cars only.
By year
All 116,397 surviving Mazda MX-5 cars, by the year each was built - not how many were on the road at the time. Across every year, 25,249 of these cars have gone since 2014, leaving 77.8% 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.
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.
On the road over time
Total Mazda MX-5 cars registered (licensed or SORN) at the end of each year.
Engine size and fuel
What is on the road now: the surviving Mazda MX-5 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
By generation
Approximate generation windows - the changeover year counts toward the newer car.
| Generation | Still registered |
|---|---|
| NA (1989–1997) | 18,295 |
| NB (1998–2004) | 25,512 |
| NC (2005–2014) | 44,868 |
| ND (2015–2026) | 27,616 |
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