Cars on UK roads

Dacia cars on UK roads

298,804 Dacia cars were licensed in Great Britain at the end of June 2026 (DfT and DVLA licensing statistics), 0.9% of all licensed cars and number 26 of the 47 makes listed here. That is up 7.7% on a year earlier; the Dacia Sandero is the most common, with 140,407 (47.0%).

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Data to 2026-06-30 · Page updated 2026-09-28 · Publisher: 73 Auto

Licensed in GB: 298,804; end of June 2026
Change in a year: +7.7%; all cars: +1.5%
First registered, last 12 months: 29,029; UK, July 2025 to June 2026

Dacia models on UK roads

Official counts for every Dacia model with at least 5,000 licensed cars; together they cover 99.9% of licensed Dacias. Shares and changes are 73 Auto calculations. The fastest-growing model with 10,000 or more on the road is the Jogger (+24.0% in a year); the fastest-shrinking is the Logan (−4.9%).

Dacia models licensed in Great Britain, end of June 2026
Model	Licensed	Share of Dacia	Change in a year	Typical year first used
Sandero	140,407	47.0%	+2.1%	2018
Duster	105,371	35.3%	+5.2%	2020
Jogger	25,939	8.7%	+24.0%	2024
Logan	13,742	4.6%	−4.9%	2016
Spring	7,637	2.6%	+108.3%	2025
Bigster	5,453	1.8%	+805.8%	—

How the Dacia fleet is changing

2.6% of licensed Dacias are battery electric, plug-in hybrid or range-extended, against 8.8% of all cars. Half of the Dacias licensed at the end of 2025 were first used in 2019 or earlier (all cars: 2016). Over five years the number licensed is up 64.6%.

Dacia cars licensed, year by year

Official data: cars licensed (taxed, or exempt and on the road) in Great Britain at the end of each June. The peak in this series was 298,804 at the end of June 2026, the latest quarter, so numbers are still at their highest.

Dacia cars licensed in Great Britain at the end of each June
Quarter end	Licensed	Change on a year earlier
June 2026	298,804	+7.7%
June 2025	277,517	+9.7%
June 2024	252,966	+10.8%
June 2023	228,379	+14.3%
June 2022	199,839	+10.1%
June 2021	181,492	+10.1%
June 2020	164,809	+11.8%
June 2019	147,451	+21.0%
June 2018	121,815	+22.8%
June 2017	99,162	+32.8%
June 2016	74,647	—

Dacia cars by fuel type

Dacia cars licensed in Great Britain by fuel type, end of June 2026
Fuel (DfT category)	Licensed	Share	All cars
Petrol	199,693	66.8%	54.3%
Diesel	57,572	19.3%	27.5%
Hybrid electric (petrol)	23,950	8.0%	9.0%
Gas	9,951	3.3%	0.1%
Battery electric	7,638	2.6%	5.9%

Official data, end of June 2026. Fuel types with fewer than 10 cars are not listed.

How old Dacia cars on the road are

Official data from DfT table VEH0124: cars licensed and SORN at 31 December 2025 in the whole UK, by the year the car was first used (for a car imported used, that is its first use abroad). This table is annual and UK-wide, so its total (299,020 licensed) differs from the quarterly Great Britain figure.

Dacia cars by year of first use, UK, 31 December 2025
First used	Licensed	Share of licensed	SORN
2025	29,391	9.8%	145
2024	30,541	10.2%	170
2023	27,275	9.1%	229
2022	25,360	8.5%	189
2021	16,606	5.5%	124
2020	17,987	6.0%	145
2019	29,001	9.7%	370
2018	22,256	7.4%	328
2017	22,694	7.6%	456
2016	23,670	7.9%	495
2015	22,399	7.5%	691
2014	18,895	6.3%	944
2013	12,567	4.2%	876
2012	23	0.0%	1
2005 and earlier	355	0.1%	68

How many Dacia cars are still on the road

73 Auto analysis of two official tables: cars first registered in the UK each year (VEH0160) and cars of that year of first use still licensed at 31 December 2025 (VEH0124). The ratio is an indication, not a tracked cohort: imported used cars and cars exported, scrapped or declared off the road all move the figure, and years where the ratio exceeded 100% or fewer than 1,000 cars were registered are left out.

Dacia cars first registered each year and still licensed at 31 December 2025
Year	First registered	Licensed end 2025	Still licensed	All cars
2024	31,346	30,541	97.4%	93.9%
2023	28,592	27,275	95.4%	93.5%
2022	27,161	25,360	93.4%	90.4%
2021	17,505	16,606	94.9%	91.6%
2020	18,818	17,987	95.6%	91.8%
2019	30,867	29,001	94.0%	91.3%
2018	24,129	22,256	92.2%	90.0%
2017	24,938	22,694	91.0%	88.8%
2016	26,284	23,670	90.0%	87.6%
2015	26,042	22,399	86.0%	86.0%

First registrations: UK, calendar years. Licensed: UK, 31 December 2025. Cars first registered in the last 12 months (July 2025 to June 2026): 29,029.

Limitations

Make totals include every car DfT records under Dacia, including models below the 5,000-car threshold and cars whose model DfT does not know. Licensed means taxed or tax-exempt at the quarter end; SORN cars are excluded from the licensed count.

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Where these figures come from

Vehicle licensing statistics data files: VEH0120 (GB), VEH0124 and VEH0160 (UK) — Department for Transport and DVLA. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Shares, changes, rankings and the still-licensed indication (73 Auto analysis of the DfT files) — 73 Auto. Derived figures.

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