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Optare Solo buses and coaches: how many are still registered?
1,315still registered
Optare Solo buses and coaches still registered with DVLA (licensed or SORN), across 32 recorded variants.
Most recorded on UK roads at once: 1,912 (2016 Q4) - 68.7% of that peak survives.
Disappearing at about 5.9% a year (the 2020–2025 trend). If that rate continued: around 969 in 2030, and under 1,000 around 2030.
628 of the survivors (47.7%) are declared off-road (SORN) rather than taxed.
68.7% survives 2016 Q4 peak: 1,912
One bus or coach 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 Optare Solo nameplate. Each is counted on its own page, so every figure on this one is buses and coaches only.
By year
All 1,315 surviving Optare Solo buses and coaches, by the year each was built - not how many were on the road at the time. Across every year, 1,035 of these cars have gone since 2014, leaving 45.0% 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.
Buses and coaches 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 Optare Solo buses and coaches registered (licensed or SORN) at the end of each year.
Engine size and fuel
What is on the road now: the surviving Optare Solo 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
Fuel
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Check a reg freeSource: 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.