UK vehicle statistics / Honda

How many Honda VFR 800 motorcycles are left?

At the end of 2026 Q1, DfT recorded 2,057 licensed and 819 SORN vehicles in the UK within the Honda VFR 800 generic-model group.

Looking at a VFR 800?

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

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Wondering whether one particular VFR 800 is off the road? A free SORN check shows whether it is currently SORN, taxed or untaxed.

Is the VFR 800 disappearing?

Licensed numbers peaked at 2,629 in 2021 Q2 and stand at 2,057 in 2026 Q1, down 22%. That is down 15% in the five years since 2021 Q1. A further 819 are declared SORN — 1 in 4 of the 2,876 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 Q12,057819
2025 Q42,019834
2025 Q32,296559
2025 Q22,329531
2025 Q12,095747
2024 Q42,074742
2024 Q32,342488
2024 Q22,337472
2024 Q12,224560
2023 Q42,148702
2023 Q32,420450
2023 Q22,476427

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.