Nissan D21 vans: how many are still registered?
554still registered
Nissan D21 vans still registered with DVLA (licensed or SORN), across 3 recorded variants.
Most recorded on UK roads at once: 10,663 (1997 Q4) - 5.1% of that peak survives.
Disappearing at about 2.5% a year (the 2020–2025 trend). If that rate continued: around 486 in 2030.
459 of the survivors (82.8%) are declared off-road (SORN) rather than taxed.
5.1% survives 1997 Q4 peak: 10,663
Every van drawn here is one still on the register. Pick variants on the left to colour them in.
Derivatives
DVLA also registers other body types under the Nissan D21 nameplate. Each is counted on its own page, so every figure on this one is vans only.
By year
All 554 surviving Nissan D21 vans, by the year each was built - not how many were on the road at the time. Across every year, 324 of these cars have gone since 2014, leaving 62.9% 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.
Vans 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 Nissan D21 was being sold new, so these are almost entirely imports rather than the car's original sales.
On the road over time
Total Nissan D21 vans registered (licensed or SORN) at the end of each year.
Engine size and fuel
What is on the road now: the surviving Nissan D21 vans 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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