Rarity / Mercedes-Benz / 190 / Buses and coaches

Mercedes-Benz 190 buses and coaches: how many are still registered?

8still registered

Mercedes-Benz 190 buses and coaches still registered with DVLA (licensed or SORN), across 3 recorded variants.

Most recorded on UK roads at once: 22 (2004 Q4) - 36.3% of that peak survives.

6 of the survivors (75.0%) are declared off-road (SORN) rather than taxed.

36.3% survives 2004 Q4 peak: 22

Declared off-road (SORN)6 · 75.0%

Derivatives

DVLA also registers other body types under the Mercedes-Benz 190 nameplate. Each is counted on its own page, so every figure on this one is buses and coaches only.

Mercedes-Benz 190 cars7,495still reg.Mercedes-Benz 190 vans6still reg.Mercedes-Benz 190 lorries3still reg.

By year

All 8 surviving Mercedes-Benz 190 buses and coaches, by the year each was built - not how many were on the road at the time. Across every year, 11 of these cars have gone since 2014, leaving 42.1% 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.

Year built2002 → 2004
420
200220032004
Point at a year for the numbers

On the road over time

Total Mercedes-Benz 190 buses and coaches registered (licensed or SORN) at the end of each year.

22
1995log scale2026: 8
Point at the line for a year

Engine size and fuel

What is on the road now: the surviving Mercedes-Benz 190 buses and coaches 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

2101cc to 2200cc8 buses and coaches · 100%

Fuel

Diesel8 · 100%

Own or buying a Mercedes-Benz 190? Get its free DVLA tax and MOT history - and the paid report's own rarity figures for the exact variant - in seconds.

Check a reg free

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.