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Volkswagen Golf vans: how many are still registered?
2,440still registered
Volkswagen Golf vans still registered with DVLA (licensed or SORN), across 56 recorded variants.
Most recorded on UK roads at once: 11,686 (1994 Q4) - 20.8% of that peak survives.
1,982 of the survivors (81.2%) are declared off-road (SORN) rather than taxed.
20.8% survives 1994 Q4 peak: 11,686
One van 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 Golf nameplate. Each is counted on its own page, so every figure on this one is vans only.
By year
All 2,440 surviving Volkswagen Golf vans, by the year each was built - not how many were on the road at the time.
Vans 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. DVLA's first-registration series starts in 2001, well after the Volkswagen Golf was being sold new, so these are almost entirely imports rather than the car's original sales.
On the road over time
Total Volkswagen Golf vans registered (licensed or SORN) at the end of each year.
Engine size and fuel
What is on the road now: the surviving Volkswagen Golf vans 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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