UK Vehicle Data
Britain's cars, brand by brand.
313 brands, 40.9M vehicles. One honest picture of what the country actually drives, straight from official DVLA records.
Vehicles on the road
40.9M
cars, vans, bikes & more
Car brands
313
on UK roads today
Now electrified
16.1%
hybrid, plug-in & battery
New cars previous year
2.03M
first-time registered
The leaderboard
Britain'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, Great Britain, 2001-2025.
Electric cars
1.71M
battery electric on UK roads, up from a niche in five years
New EVs previous year
688k
battery & plug-in registered
Brand momentum
Who's rising, who's fading.
Rising fast
Most growth, 2024-2025
- 1
+52.1%Cupra114k cars - 2
+49.1%Polestar47,993 cars - 3
+22.4%MG412k cars - 4+18.9%Tesla272k cars
- 5
+8.7%Dacia288k cars - 6+6.6%Kia1.26M cars
Fading away
Steepest decline, 2024-2025
- 1
-15.7%Chevrolet42,546 cars - 2
-14.1%Saab36,395 cars - 3
-5.9%Mitsubishi168k cars - 4
-4.3%Vauxhall2.54M cars - 5
-3.9%Citroen793k cars - 6-3.6%Jaguar355k cars
Compare any two brands.
Pick any two of Britain's 313 car brands and see who comes out on top, or jump straight into one of the classic rivalries.
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 Britain's roads also carry millions of vans, motorbikes, buses and trucks.
- Cars81.6%
- Vans (LGV)11.6%
- Motorcycles3.3%
- Other2.0%
- HGVs1.2%
- Buses & coaches0.3%
Vans (LGV)
4.73M
light goods vehicles
Motorcycles
1.33M
bikes & scooters
Cars
33.4M
the bulk of the fleet
Everything else
1.48M
HGVs, buses & more
Vehicle age
How old are Britain's cars?
31%
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 2000936k
- 2000-2004799k
- 2005-20093.43M
- 2010-20147.87M
- 2015-201911.2M
- 2020-202510.2M
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