UK vehicle statistics / Kawasaki

How many Kawasaki Klz1000 motorcycles are left?

At the end of 2026 Q1, DfT recorded 1,528 licensed and 308 SORN vehicles in the UK within the Kawasaki Klz1000 generic-model group.

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Is the Klz1000 disappearing?

Licensed numbers peaked at 1,657 in 2025 Q2 and stand at 1,528 in 2026 Q1, down 8%. That is up 159% in the five years since 2021 Q1. A further 308 are declared SORN — 1 in 6 of the 1,836 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 Q11,528308
2025 Q41,513322
2025 Q31,646188
2025 Q21,657184
2025 Q11,513317
2024 Q41,483322
2024 Q31,59296
2024 Q21,54468
2024 Q11,40586
2023 Q41,305158
2023 Q31,39152
2023 Q21,36346

Other Kawasaki models

  • ZX — 18,419 licensed
  • ZR — 14,327 licensed
  • EX — 4,761 licensed
  • ER — 3,656 licensed
  • Zx1002 — 4,496 licensed
  • VN — 2,642 licensed

See how many of every Kawasaki 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.