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Mercedes-Benz 400: how many are still registered?

2,170still registered

Mercedes-Benz 400 cars still registered with DVLA (licensed or SORN), across 16 recorded variants.

32 of the survivors (1.4%) 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 on the left to colour them in.

Declared off-road (SORN)32 · 1.4%

Derivatives

DVLA also registers other body types under the Mercedes-Benz 400 nameplate. Each is counted on its own page, so every figure on this one is cars only.

Mercedes-Benz 400 vans251still reg.Mercedes-Benz 400 lorries258still reg.Mercedes-Benz 400 buses and coaches79still reg.

By year

All 2,170 surviving Mercedes-Benz 400 cars, by the year each was built - not how many were on the road at the time. Across every year, 7 of these cars have gone since 2014, leaving 99.6% 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 built1972 → 2009
3001500
19722009
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On the road over time

Total Mercedes-Benz 400 cars registered (licensed or SORN) at the end of each year.

332
1994log scale2026: 38
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Engine size and fuel

What is on the road now: the surviving Mercedes-Benz 400 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

2101cc to 2200cc11 cars · 0.5%
2601cc to 2700cc11 cars · 0.5%
4101cc to 4200cc1,159 cars · 53.4%
4201cc to 4300cc17 cars · 0.7%
4501cc to 4600cc857 cars · 39.4%
6801cc to 6900cc77 cars · 3.5%
Other sizes (17)38 cars · 1.7%

Fuel

Petrol2,136 · 98.4%
Diesel30 · 1.3%
Gas4 · 0.1%

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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.