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Optare Versa buses and coaches: how many are still registered?
479still registered
Optare Versa buses and coaches still registered with DVLA (licensed or SORN), across 12 recorded variants.
Most recorded on UK roads at once: 569 (2019 Q3) - 84.1% of that peak survives.
Disappearing at about 4.2% a year (the 2020–2025 trend). If that rate continued: around 384 in 2030.
115 of the survivors (24.0%) are declared off-road (SORN) rather than taxed.
84.1% survives 2019 Q3 peak: 569
Every bus or coach drawn here is one still on the register. Pick variants on the left to colour them in.
By year
All 479 surviving Optare Versa buses and coaches, by the year each was built - not how many were on the road at the time. Across every year, 112 of these cars have gone since 2014, leaving 69.2% 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 Versa 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 Versa 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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