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Volkswagen Phaeton: how many are still registered?
1,127still registered
Volkswagen Phaeton cars still registered with DVLA (licensed or SORN), across 27 recorded variants.
Most recorded on UK roads at once: 1,961 (2013 Q4) - 57.4% of that peak survives.
Disappearing at about 6.1% a year (the 2020–2025 trend). If that rate continued: around 821 in 2030, and under 1,000 around 2027.
465 of the survivors (41.2%) are declared off-road (SORN) rather than taxed.
57.4% survives 2013 Q4 peak: 1,961
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 Phaeton nameplate. Each is counted on its own page, so every figure on this one is cars only.
By year
All 1,127 surviving Volkswagen Phaeton cars, by the year each was built - not how many were on the road at the time. Across every year, 846 of these cars have gone since 2014, leaving 56.9% 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 Phaeton cars registered (licensed or SORN) at the end of each year.
Engine size and fuel
What is on the road now: the surviving Volkswagen Phaeton 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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