UK vehicle statistics / Honda

How many Honda CMX 500 motorcycles are left?

At the end of 2026 Q1, DfT recorded 3,358 licensed and 765 SORN vehicles in the UK within the Honda CMX 500 generic-model group.

Looking at a CMX 500?

Population figures cannot tell you whether one particular car is taxed, MOT-valid or safe to buy.

Check its registration free for the official tax, MOT and mileage record. If the car is still worth pursuing, the optional £9.99 full history check adds outstanding-finance, stolen and insurance write-off checks.

Wondering whether one particular CMX 500 is off the road? A free SORN check shows whether it is currently SORN, taxed or untaxed.

Is the CMX 500 disappearing?

Licensed numbers peaked at 3,502 in 2025 Q3 and stand at 3,358 in 2026 Q1, down 4%. That is up 67% in the five years since 2021 Q1. A further 765 are declared SORN — 1 in 5 of the 4,123 still on the DVLA record is off the road, laid up, part-restored or waiting to be sold.

A falling population is worth knowing before you buy: it usually means fewer donor cars, fewer specialists and slower parts supply, and it is why a good example of a scarce model can hold its price while a neglected one is hard to sell at any price.

Recent quarterly trend

QuarterLicensedSORN
2026 Q13,358765
2025 Q43,289760
2025 Q33,502521
2025 Q23,464483
2025 Q13,174630
2024 Q43,123604
2024 Q33,346384
2024 Q23,299345
2024 Q13,061418
2023 Q42,936492
2023 Q33,113308
2023 Q23,041261

Other Honda models

  • Jazz — 349,385 licensed
  • Civic — 246,926 licensed
  • CR-V — 196,120 licensed
  • CBR — 29,970 licensed
  • HR-V — 60,559 licensed
  • CB — 31,388 licensed

See how many of every Honda model are left

Source and limitations

Source: Department for Transport and DVLA, df_VEH0120_UK. Released 2026-07-15 under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

DVLA make and model fields are administrative data and can contain omissions or inconsistencies. These statistics describe model groups, not an individual registration.

Confidential cells marked [c] represent between 1 and 4 vehicles and are treated as zero in aggregates, so totals can be slightly understated.