Rarity / Volkswagen / California
Volkswagen California: how many are still registered?
1,711still registered
Volkswagen California cars still registered with DVLA (licensed or SORN), across 21 recorded variants.
Most recorded on UK roads at once: 1,833 (2026 Q2) - 93.3% of that peak survives.
16 of the survivors (0.9%) are declared off-road (SORN) rather than taxed.
93.3% survives 2026 Q2 peak: 1,833
One car drawn per 10 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 California nameplate. Each is counted on its own page, so every figure on this one is cars only.
By year
All 1,711 surviving Volkswagen California cars, by the year each was built - not how many were on the road at the time. Across every year, 1 of these cars have gone since 2014, leaving 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 California cars registered (licensed or SORN) at the end of each year.
Engine size and fuel
What is on the road now: the surviving Volkswagen California 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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