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How many MG MG3 cars are on UK roads?

55,715 MG MG3 cars were licensed in Great Britain at the end of June 2026, with another 616 declared off the road (SORN), according to DfT and DVLA licensing statistics. That is up 31.0% on a year earlier and 12.0% of all licensed MG cars, making it number 3 of the 9 MG models listed here and number 141 of 408 models nationally.

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

Licensed in GB: 55,715; end of June 2026, DfT VEH0120
Change in a year: +31.0%; all cars: +1.5%
Typical year of first use: 2023; median, UK, 31 Dec 2025 (all cars: 2016)

What the numbers say about the MG MG3

The number of MG MG3s on the road is up 31.0% on a year earlier, ahead of the +1.5% for all cars and ahead of MG as a whole (+22.6%). That is the highest quarter-end figure in the series, which starts in June 2016.

14,065 MG MG3s were first registered in the UK from July 2025 to June 2026, 91% of them hybrid electric (petrol).

59% of licensed MG MG3s are petrol, against 54% of all cars. There are almost no electric or plug-in versions on the road.

7% of those licensed at the end of 2025 were first used in 2015 or earlier (all cars: 44%), and 1.1% of registered MG MG3s are SORN against 9.9% of all cars.

Of the 2,563 MG MG3s first registered in 2015, 81% were still licensed at the end of 2025, against 86% of all cars first registered that year (73 Auto analysis; see the table below).

MG MG3s 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 55,715 at the end of June 2026, the latest quarter, so numbers are still at their highest.

MG MG3s licensed in Great Britain at the end of each June
Quarter end	Licensed	Change on a year earlier
June 2026	55,715	+31.0%
June 2025	42,535	+34.3%
June 2024	31,663	+19.2%
June 2023	26,554	+18.6%
June 2022	22,386	+16.1%
June 2021	19,282	+14.9%
June 2020	16,784	+18.7%
June 2019	14,138	+24.3%
June 2018	11,378	+29.8%
June 2017	8,765	+52.6%
June 2016	5,745	—

MG MG3s by fuel type

MG MG3s licensed in Great Britain by fuel type, end of June 2026
Fuel (DfT category)	Licensed	Share	All cars
Petrol	32,931	59.1%	54.3%
Hybrid electric (petrol)	22,783	40.9%	9.0%

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

How old MG MG3s 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 (49,655 licensed) differs from the quarterly Great Britain figure.

MG MG3s by year of first use, UK, 31 December 2025
First used	Licensed	Share of licensed	SORN
2025	12,402	25.0%	147
2024	9,231	18.6%	45
2023	4,446	8.9%	16
2022	4,104	8.3%	32
2021	1,888	3.8%	16
2020	2,366	4.8%	16
2019	3,545	7.1%	28
2018	2,476	5.0%	36
2017	2,767	5.6%	63
2016	2,836	5.7%	74
2015	2,080	4.2%	105
2014	1,361	2.7%	92
2013	148	0.3%	12
2005 and earlier	5	0.0%	0

How many MG MG3s 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.

MG MG3s first registered each year and still licensed at 31 December 2025
Year	First registered	Licensed end 2025	Still licensed	All cars
2024	9,807	9,231	94.1%	93.9%
2023	4,634	4,446	95.9%	93.5%
2022	4,368	4,104	94.0%	90.4%
2021	2,011	1,888	93.9%	91.6%
2020	2,532	2,366	93.4%	91.8%
2019	3,805	3,545	93.2%	91.3%
2018	2,678	2,476	92.5%	90.0%
2017	3,050	2,767	90.7%	88.8%
2016	3,216	2,836	88.2%	87.6%
2015	2,563	2,080	81.2%	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): 14,065.

Other MG models on UK roads

MG models licensed in Great Britain, end of June 2026
Model	Licensed	Share of MG	Change in a year
MG ZS	138,005	29.8%	+18.8%
MG HS	125,032	27.0%	+31.1%
MG MG4	50,442	10.9%	+18.7%
MG MGB	24,809	5.4%	no change
MG MG5	15,152	3.3%	+0.3%
MG Midget	9,022	1.9%	−0.5%
MG S5	8,699	1.9%	+858.0%
MG TF	7,105	1.5%	−7.8%

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” (MG 3), which 73 Auto maps to the MG MG3 as named in our list-price catalogue; 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.