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How many Lexus GS cars are on UK roads?

6,346 Lexus GS cars were licensed in Great Britain at the end of June 2026, with another 2,249 declared off the road (SORN), according to DfT and DVLA licensing statistics. That is down 6.4% on a year earlier and 3.0% of all licensed Lexus cars, making it number 7 of the 8 Lexus models listed here and number 381 of 408 models nationally.

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

Licensed in GB: 6,346; end of June 2026, DfT VEH0120
Change in a year: −6.4%; all cars: +1.5%
Typical year of first use: —; median, UK, 31 Dec 2025 (all cars: 2016)

What the numbers say about the Lexus GS

The number of Lexus GSs on the road is down 6.4% on a year earlier, behind the +1.5% for all cars and behind Lexus as a whole (+4.6%). It peaked at 11,539 at the end of June 2016 and has fallen 45.0% since.

Only 3 were first registered in the UK from July 2025 to June 2026, so the Lexus GS is effectively no longer sold new here: the number on the road can only shrink as cars are scrapped, exported or taken off the road.

57% of licensed Lexus GSs are hybrid electric (petrol), against 9% of all cars. There are almost no electric or plug-in versions on the road.

Lexus GSs 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 11,539 at the end of June 2016.

Lexus GSs licensed in Great Britain at the end of each June
Quarter end	Licensed	Change on a year earlier
June 2026	6,346	−6.4%
June 2025	6,778	−6.8%
June 2024	7,275	−7.4%
June 2023	7,860	−4.4%
June 2022	8,222	−5.1%
June 2021	8,666	−6.0%
June 2020	9,223	−8.7%
June 2019	10,107	−6.4%
June 2018	10,802	−4.7%
June 2017	11,336	−1.8%
June 2016	11,539	—

Lexus GSs by fuel type

Lexus GSs licensed in Great Britain by fuel type, end of June 2026
Fuel (DfT category)	Licensed	Share	All cars
Hybrid electric (petrol)	3,616	57.0%	9.0%
Petrol	2,709	42.7%	54.3%
Gas	20	0.3%	0.1%

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

Other Lexus models on UK roads

Lexus models licensed in Great Britain, end of June 2026
Model	Licensed	Share of Lexus	Change in a year
Lexus NX	45,099	21.7%	+8.8%
Lexus RX	38,018	18.3%	−2.1%
Lexus IS	30,131	14.5%	−7.0%
Lexus CT	29,505	14.2%	−0.2%
Lexus UX	24,898	12.0%	+5.2%
Lexus LBX	15,158	7.3%	+67.9%
Lexus ES	6,268	3.0%	+2.7%

Limitations

Licensed means taxed or tax-exempt and allowed on the road at the quarter end; SORN cars are registered but declared off the road. DfT groups cars by its own “generic model” (LEXUS GS), which 73 Auto maps to the Lexus GS; body styles and derivatives sold under that name are included. The Great Britain quarterly figures and the UK annual age table are separate official tables, so their totals differ slightly.

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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.

Figures labelled as 73 Auto estimates are our own analysis of these sources, set out in the methodology and data sources. To report a factual error, see corrections.