Cars on UK roads

How many MG TF cars are on UK roads?

7,105 MG TF cars were licensed in Great Britain at the end of June 2026, with another 6,767 declared off the road (SORN), according to DfT and DVLA licensing statistics. That is down 7.8% on a year earlier and 1.5% of all licensed MG cars, making it number 9 of the 9 MG models listed here and number 370 of 408 models nationally.

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

Licensed in GB: 7,105; end of June 2026, DfT VEH0120
Change in a year: −7.8%; all cars: +1.5%
Typical year of first use: 2004; median, UK, 31 Dec 2025 (all cars: 2016)

What the numbers say about the MG TF

The number of MG TFs on the road is down 7.8% on a year earlier, behind the +1.5% for all cars and behind MG as a whole (+22.6%). It peaked at 16,341 at the end of June 2016 and has fallen 56.5% since.

Only 5 were first registered in the UK from July 2025 to June 2026, so the MG TF 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 TFs are petrol, against 54% of all cars. There are almost no electric or plug-in versions on the road.

100% of those licensed at the end of 2025 were first used in 2015 or earlier (all cars: 44%), and 48.8% of registered MG TFs are SORN against 9.9% of all cars, a sign of cars kept off the road as projects, second cars or awaiting repair.

MG TFs 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 16,341 at the end of June 2016.

MG TFs licensed in Great Britain at the end of each June
Quarter end	Licensed	Change on a year earlier
June 2026	7,105	−7.8%
June 2025	7,706	−7.6%
June 2024	8,342	−8.5%
June 2023	9,116	−8.0%
June 2022	9,907	−5.9%
June 2021	10,533	−1.3%
June 2020	10,668	−14.6%
June 2019	12,496	−8.4%
June 2018	13,649	−8.8%
June 2017	14,974	−8.4%
June 2016	16,341	—

MG TFs by fuel type

MG TFs licensed in Great Britain by fuel type, end of June 2026
Fuel (DfT category)	Licensed	Share	All cars
Petrol	7,105	100.0%	54.3%

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

How old MG TFs 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 (5,902 licensed) differs from the quarterly Great Britain figure.

MG TFs by year of first use, UK, 31 December 2025
First used	Licensed	Share of licensed	SORN
2014	1	0.0%	0
2013	4	0.1%	2
2012	7	0.1%	1
2011	57	1.0%	19
2010	146	2.5%	72
2009	199	3.4%	116
2008	78	1.3%	49
2007	27	0.5%	38
2006	196	3.3%	171
2005 and earlier	5,187	87.9%	7,997

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 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%

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 TF), which 73 Auto maps to the MG TF; 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.