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Volkswagen Caravelle buses and coaches: how many are still registered?
2,963still registered
Volkswagen Caravelle buses and coaches still registered with DVLA (licensed or SORN), across 31 recorded variants.
Most recorded on UK roads at once: 4,460 (2003 Q4) - 66.4% of that peak survives.
Disappearing at about 1.8% a year (the 2020–2025 trend). If that rate continued: around 2,703 in 2030.
1,148 of the survivors (38.7%) are declared off-road (SORN) rather than taxed.
66.4% survives 2003 Q4 peak: 4,460
One bus or coach 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 Caravelle nameplate. Each is counted on its own page, so every figure on this one is buses and coaches only.
By year
All 2,963 surviving Volkswagen Caravelle buses and coaches, by the year each was built - not how many were on the road at the time. Across every year, 575 of these cars have gone since 2014, leaving 83.7% 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.
Buses and coaches 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 Caravelle buses and coaches registered (licensed or SORN) at the end of each year.
Engine size and fuel
What is on the road now: the surviving Volkswagen Caravelle buses and coaches 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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