How many Mecalac cars are left in the UK?

1,336 Mecalac vehicles were licensed and 1,756 were SORN at the end of 2026 Q1, according to DfT and DVLA statistics.

Which Mecalac is rarest?

Of the published Mecalac model groups, the MDX has the smallest surviving population at 205 licensed and 215 SORN.

How many Mecalac cars are left?

Name: Mecalac licensed and SORN statistics
Creator: Department for Transport and DVLA
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

At the end of 2026 Q1, DfT recorded 1,336 licensed and 1,756 SORN Mecalac vehicles in the UK, across 2 published model groups. That means 1 in 2 surviving Mecalac is currently off the road.

Looking at a Mecalac?

Population figures describe a model group, not the car in front of you.

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Rarest Mecalac models

The published Mecalac model groups with the smallest surviving populations.

MDX — 205 licensed, 215 SORN
TA — 1,131 licensed, 1,541 SORN

Every Mecalac model

Model	Licensed	SORN
TA	1,131	1,541
MDX	205	215

How to read these numbers

Licensed means taxed and legal to use on the road at the end of the quarter. SORN means the keeper has declared it off the road — it still exists, but it is not in use. A model group's total is the best available proxy for how many survive, and a shrinking one means fewer donor cars, fewer specialists and slower parts supply.

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.