UK vehicle statistics / Vauxhall

How many Vauxhall Corsa cars are left?

At the end of 2026 Q1, DfT recorded 931,400 licensed and 107,113 SORN vehicles in the UK within the Vauxhall Corsa generic-model group.

Looking at a Corsa?

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 Corsa is off the road? A free SORN check shows whether it is currently SORN, taxed or untaxed.

Is the Corsa disappearing?

Licensed numbers peaked at 1,205,683 in 2014 Q3 and stand at 931,400 in 2026 Q1, down 23%. That is down 12% in the five years since 2021 Q1. A further 107,113 are declared SORN — 1 in 10 of the 1,038,513 still on the DVLA record is off the road, laid up, part-restored or waiting to be sold.

For how this model fares on test day, see its MOT pass rate and most common failures.

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 Q1931,400107,113
2025 Q4940,026105,646
2025 Q3947,758103,742
2025 Q2954,769102,323
2025 Q1962,967101,589
2024 Q4970,416100,410
2024 Q3978,264100,291
2024 Q2988,180100,076
2024 Q1997,263100,133
2023 Q41,005,06097,948
2023 Q31,009,31494,083
2023 Q21,014,73992,509

Other Vauxhall models

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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.