Rarity / Volkswagen / Beetle
Volkswagen Beetle: how many are still registered?
61,182still registered
Volkswagen Beetle cars still registered with DVLA (licensed or SORN), across 79 recorded variants.
Most recorded on UK roads at once: 87,292 (2016 Q4) - 70.0% of that peak survives.
Disappearing at about 5.2% a year (the 2020–2025 trend). If that rate continued: around 46,843 in 2030.
16,588 of the survivors (27.1%) are declared off-road (SORN) rather than taxed.
70.0% survives 2016 Q4 peak: 87,292
One car drawn per 1,000 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 Volkswagen Beetle nameplate. Each is counted on its own page, so every figure on this one is cars only.
By year
All 61,182 surviving Volkswagen Beetle cars, by the year each was built - not how many were on the road at the time. DVLA records a build year for only 52,854 of them; the rest are registered without one and cannot be placed on the year-built bars. Across every year, 35,060 of these cars have gone since 2014, leaving 56.1% 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 Beetle cars registered (licensed or SORN) at the end of each year.
Engine size and fuel
What is on the road now: the surviving Volkswagen Beetle 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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