UK Vehicle Data
The UK's cars, brand by brand.
318 brands, 42.3M vehicles. One honest picture of what the country actually drives, straight from official DVLA records. See what the UK fleet means for your car's value.
Vehicles on the road
42.3M
cars, vans, bikes & more
Car brands
318
on UK roads today
Now electrified
15.9%
hybrid, plug-in & battery
New cars previous year
2.07M
first-time registered
The leaderboard
The UK's biggest brands
Most on the road
Cars licensed now, with the 5-year change (2020-2025)
Most registered previous year
Brand-new cars first registered
The big shift
Petrol still leads. But not for long.
Every new car bought previous year
Licensed cars by fuel type, United Kingdom, 2001-2025.
Electric cars
1.74M
battery electric on UK roads, up from a niche in five years
New EVs previous year
700k
battery & plug-in registered
Brand momentum
Who's rising, who's fading.
Rising fast
Most growth, 2024-2025
- 1
+52.4%Cupra115k cars - 2
+49.1%Polestar48,197 cars - 3
+22.4%MG420k cars - 4+19.1%Tesla275k cars
- 5
+8.7%Dacia299k cars - 6+6.6%Kia1.30M cars
Fading away
Steepest decline, 2024-2025
- 1
-15.7%Chevrolet43,923 cars - 2
-14.2%Saab37,193 cars - 3
-6%Mitsubishi173k cars - 4
-4.3%Vauxhall2.61M cars - 5
-3.9%Citroen820k cars - 6-3.7%Jaguar362k cars
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Popular matchups
Cars on the road
New registrations (latest year)
5-year growth
Electrified share
The wider fleet
It's not just cars
Cars make up most of the fleet, but the UK's roads also carry millions of vans, motorbikes, buses and trucks.
- Cars81.6%
- Vans (LGV)11.6%
- Motorcycles3.2%
- Other2.1%
- HGVs1.3%
- Buses & coaches0.3%
Vans (LGV)
4.89M
light goods vehicles
Motorcycles
1.36M
bikes & scooters
Cars
34.5M
the bulk of the fleet
Everything else
1.55M
HGVs, buses & more
Vehicle age
How old are the UK's cars?
30%
are under 5 years old
Around 10.2M cars on the road were first registered in the last five years - but plenty are far older, with millions still going strong from before 2010.
Cars on the road, by year first registered
- Before 2000453k
- 2000-2004799k
- 2005-20093.43M
- 2010-20147.87M
- 2015-201911.2M
- 2020-202510.2M
Good to know
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