Rarity / Mercedes-Benz / 500
Mercedes-Benz 500: how many are still registered?
4,070still registered
Mercedes-Benz 500 cars still registered with DVLA (licensed or SORN), across 11 recorded variants.
Most recorded on UK roads at once: 8,353 (1994 Q4) - 48.7% of that peak survives.
Disappearing at about 1.2% a year (the 2020–2025 trend). If that rate continued: around 3,829 in 2030.
2,172 of the survivors (53.3%) are declared off-road (SORN) rather than taxed.
48.7% survives 1994 Q4 peak: 8,353
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.
Derivatives
DVLA also registers other body types under the Mercedes-Benz 500 nameplate. Each is counted on its own page, so every figure on this one is cars only.
By year
All 4,070 surviving Mercedes-Benz 500 cars, by the year each was built - not how many were on the road at the time. Across every year, 276 of these cars have gone since 2014, leaving 93.6% 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.
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 Mercedes-Benz 500 was being sold new, so these are almost entirely imports rather than the car's original sales.
On the road over time
Total Mercedes-Benz 500 cars registered (licensed or SORN) at the end of each year.
Engine size and fuel
What is on the road now: the surviving Mercedes-Benz 500 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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