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Toyota Starlet: how many are still registered?

5,575still registered

Toyota Starlet cars still registered with DVLA (licensed or SORN), across 22 recorded variants.

Most recorded on UK roads at once: 36,083 (1999 Q4) - 15.4% of that peak survives.

Disappearing at about 7.5% a year (the 2020–2025 trend). If that rate continued: around 3,774 in 2030, and under 1,000 around 2047.

2,640 of the survivors (47.3%) are declared off-road (SORN) rather than taxed.

15.4% survives 1999 Q4 peak: 36,083

Declared off-road (SORN)2,640 · 47.3%
Disappearing per year7.5%
Projected 2030~3,774

Derivatives

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

Toyota Starlet vans3still reg.

By year

All 5,575 surviving Toyota Starlet cars, by the year each was built - not how many were on the road at the time. Across every year, 9,517 of these cars have gone since 2014, leaving 36.7% 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 built1981 → 2017
2,0001,0000
19812017
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On the road over time

Total Toyota Starlet cars registered (licensed or SORN) at the end of each year.

36,083
1994log scale2026: 4,897
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Engine size and fuel

What is on the road now: the surviving Toyota Starlet 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

901cc to 1000cc247 cars · 4.4%
1101cc to 1200cc30 cars · 0.5%
1201cc to 1300cc224 cars · 4.0%
1301cc to 1400cc5,012 cars · 89.9%
1401cc to 1500cc34 cars · 0.6%
Other sizes (10)28 cars · 0.5%

Fuel

Petrol5,556 · 99.6%
Other fuels (3)19 · 0.3%

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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.