Rarity / Volkswagen / 1600
Volkswagen 1600: how many are still registered?
461still registered
Volkswagen 1600 cars still registered with DVLA (licensed or SORN), across 16 recorded variants.
Most recorded on UK roads at once: 828 (2002 Q4) - 55.6% of that peak survives.
Disappearing at about 2.9% a year (the 2020–2025 trend). If that rate continued: around 396 in 2030.
206 of the survivors (44.6%) are declared off-road (SORN) rather than taxed.
55.6% survives 2002 Q4 peak: 828
Every car 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 Volkswagen 1600 nameplate. Each is counted on its own page, so every figure on this one is cars only.
By year
All 461 surviving Volkswagen 1600 cars, by the year each was built - not how many were on the road at the time. DVLA records a build year for only 227 of them; the rest are registered without one and cannot be placed on the year-built bars. Across every year, 262 of these cars have gone since 2014, leaving 46.0% 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.
Cars 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 Volkswagen 1600 cars registered (licensed or SORN) at the end of each year.
Engine size and fuel
What is on the road now: the surviving Volkswagen 1600 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
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.