How rare is your car? RarityRadar tracks how many of every car model are still on UK roads, using official government data — with trends, rarity rankings, decline forecasts and the fuel mix.
Every count on this site is derived from the UK Department for Transport's
Vehicle licensing statistics (table VEH0120, file df_VEH0120_UK.csv),
compiled from the DVLA vehicle register. The data is published quarterly and we track
46 quarters from 2014 Q3 to 2025 Q4. The latest figures on the site are for 2025 Q4.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. RarityRadar is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the DVLA or DfT.
A model's count is the number of vehicles licensed (taxed) plus those declared SORN (Statutory Off-Road Notification — kept off the road but still registered). We currently track 2,408 car models that still have at least one survivor.
DVLA lists many variant spellings for the same car. We roll these up to one generic model (e.g. all "Fiesta" variants become a single Ford Fiesta page) so the counts and pages are clean.
Limitations: the data only covers vehicles still on the DVLA register, so cars scrapped or exported before they could be recorded aren't counted. Older records can carry naming quirks. Treat the figures as a strong guide, not a precise census.
Rarity tiers are based on the latest survivor count: Ultra-rare (1–99 left), Rare (100–999), Uncommon (1,000–9,999) and Common (10,000+); a model with none left is marked Gone.
Rate of decline fits a constant-percentage (exponential) decay to the last three years of data, then reports the yearly loss, a five-year estimate and a rough "half gone by" year. Real fleets flatten out as the last survivors are cherished, so treat the forecast as a trajectory, not a death date.
Fuel types follow DVLA's categories, tidied into Petrol, Diesel, Hybrid, Plug-in hybrid, Electric, Gas and Other. "Gas" means LPG or CNG (autogas) — usually petrol cars converted to run on gas — which is why it appears as its own small slice.
Car photos come from Wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons under their respective Creative Commons or public-domain licences, with attribution shown on each photo. The short "About" write-ups are drawn from Wikipedia article intros, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0 with a link back to the source.
The DVLA publishes fresh figures each quarter; RarityRadar is rebuilt from the new data when it lands. Questions or corrections: [email protected].