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How many MG MGB cars are on UK roads?

24,809 MG MGB cars were licensed in Great Britain at the end of June 2026, with another 12,973 declared off the road (SORN), according to DfT and DVLA licensing statistics. That is unchanged on a year earlier and 5.4% of all licensed MG cars, making it number 5 of the 9 MG models listed here and number 209 of 408 models nationally.

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

Licensed in GB: 24,809; end of June 2026, DfT VEH0120
Change in a year: no change; all cars: +1.5%
Typical year of first use: —; median, UK, 31 Dec 2025 (all cars: 2016)

What the numbers say about the MG MGB

The number of MG MGBs on the road is unchanged on a year earlier, behind the +1.5% for all cars and behind MG as a whole (+22.6%). It is within 5% of its peak of 25,270 (March 2024).

Only 6 were first registered in the UK from July 2025 to June 2026, so the MG MGB 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.

100% of licensed MG MGBs are petrol, against 54% of all cars. There are almost no electric or plug-in versions on the road.

MG MGBs 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 25,270 at the end of March 2024.

MG MGBs licensed in Great Britain at the end of each June
Quarter end	Licensed	Change on a year earlier
June 2026	24,809	no change
June 2025	24,803	−1.7%
June 2024	25,231	+0.1%
June 2023	25,194	+1.1%
June 2022	24,929	+2.6%
June 2021	24,288	+5.2%
June 2020	23,091	+1.2%
June 2019	22,826	+6.4%
June 2018	21,459	+2.2%
June 2017	20,996	+1.5%
June 2016	20,693	—

MG MGBs by fuel type

MG MGBs licensed in Great Britain by fuel type, end of June 2026
Fuel (DfT category)	Licensed	Share	All cars
Petrol	24,797	100.0%	54.3%

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

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 MG3	55,715	12.0%	+31.0%
MG MG4	50,442	10.9%	+18.7%
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 B), which 73 Auto maps to the MG MGB; 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.