UK vehicle statistics / Mercedes
How many Mercedes cars are left?
At the end of 2026 Q1, DfT recorded 2,126,567 licensed and 293,062 SORN Mercedes vehicles in the UK, across 57 published model groups. That means 1 in 8 surviving Mercedes is currently off the road.
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Rarest Mercedes models
The published Mercedes model groups with the smallest surviving populations.
- CLE 450 AMG — 119 licensed, 1 SORN
- CLE 200 Premier — 138 licensed, 1 SORN
- Unimog — 137 licensed, 6 SORN
- Auto Sleepers — 137 licensed, 7 SORN
- Coleman Milne — 158 licensed, 0 SORN
Every Mercedes model
| Model | Licensed | SORN |
|---|---|---|
| A Class | 390,668 | 14,568 |
| C Class | 338,222 | 50,258 |
| Sprinter | 259,076 | 55,379 |
| E Class | 208,613 | 42,991 |
| GLA Class | 114,968 | 1,815 |
| Vito | 100,028 | 16,494 |
| CLA Class | 108,827 | 2,457 |
| GLC Class | 101,342 | 2,376 |
| B Class | 68,153 | 3,261 |
| SLK Class | 46,327 | 13,271 |
| AMG Class | 54,560 | 3,013 |
| GLE Class | 38,454 | 1,575 |
| ML Class | 25,790 | 12,062 |
| EQA Class | 33,751 | 180 |
| S Class | 22,113 | 8,999 |
| CLK Class | 19,037 | 11,838 |
| CLS Class | 20,295 | 4,637 |
| GLB Class | 23,805 | 644 |
| Citan | 21,428 | 1,384 |
| SL Class | 14,102 | 7,787 |
| EQB Class | 20,228 | 96 |
| EQC Class | 18,070 | 336 |
| 300 | 4,612 | 10,059 |
| 200 | 6,230 | 8,364 |
| V Class | 13,069 | 1,315 |
| CLC Class | 8,562 | 1,081 |
| SLC Class | 8,000 | 240 |
| 190 | 2,126 | 5,430 |
| Viano | 4,091 | 1,178 |
| 500 | 1,254 | 2,901 |
| EQE Class | 4,079 | 67 |
| X Class | 3,688 | 241 |
| CL Class | 2,047 | 1,862 |
| GLS Class | 3,516 | 242 |
| GL Class | 2,824 | 812 |
| 400 | 1,026 | 1,790 |
| Tourismo | 2,080 | 36 |
| R Class | 1,409 | 695 |
| EQS Class | 2,006 | 70 |
| G Class | 1,558 | 393 |
| Hymer | 1,175 | 60 |
| CLE 300 AMG | 942 | 6 |
| EQV Class | 842 | 40 |
| CLE 200 AMG | 831 | 8 |
| Vaneo | 232 | 314 |
| Ecitan | 425 | 45 |
| CLE 220 AMG | 410 | 4 |
| SLS Class | 202 | 202 |
| CLE 300 Premier ED Mhev 4M A | 300 | 2 |
| M8 | 254 | 5 |
| 600 | 55 | 159 |
| Adria | 176 | 5 |
| Coleman Milne | 158 | 0 |
| Auto Sleepers | 137 | 7 |
| Unimog | 137 | 6 |
| CLE 200 Premier | 138 | 1 |
| CLE 450 AMG | 119 | 1 |
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.