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Rover 100 Series: how many are still registered?

4,219still registered

Rover 100 Series cars still registered with DVLA (licensed or SORN), across 23 recorded variants.

Most recorded on UK roads at once: 124,711 (1999 Q4) - 3.3% of that peak survives.

Disappearing at about 2.6% a year (the 2020–2025 trend). If that rate continued: around 3,696 in 2030.

2,713 of the survivors (64.3%) are declared off-road (SORN) rather than taxed.

3.3% survives 1999 Q4 peak: 124,711

Declared off-road (SORN)2,713 · 64.3%
Disappearing per year2.6%
Projected 2030~3,696

Derivatives

DVLA also registers other body types under the Rover 100 Series nameplate. Each is counted on its own page, so every figure on this one is cars only.

Rover 100 Series vans15still reg.

By year

All 4,219 surviving Rover 100 Series cars, by the year each was built - not how many were on the road at the time. DVLA records a build year for only 3,033 of them; the rest are registered without one and cannot be placed on the year-built bars. Across every year, 2,703 of these cars have gone since 2014, leaving 52.8% 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 built1964 → 1998
1,0005000
19641998
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On the road over time

Total Rover 100 Series cars registered (licensed or SORN) at the end of each year.

124,711
1994log scale2026: 4,089
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Engine size and fuel

What is on the road now: the surviving Rover 100 Series 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

1101cc to 1200cc1,694 cars · 40.1%
1301cc to 1400cc832 cars · 19.7%
1501cc to 1600cc165 cars · 3.9%
1701cc to 1800cc27 cars · 0.6%
2601cc to 2700cc1,454 cars · 34.4%
Other sizes (15)46 cars · 1.0%

Fuel

Petrol4,056 · 96.1%
Diesel162 · 3.8%
Gas1 · under 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.