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Vehicle licensing statistics: 2011

Information on motor vehicles in Great Britain that were licensed on the 31 December 2011, or were registered for the first time in 2011.

From:
Department for Transport and Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
Published
12 April 2012

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Vehicle licensing statistics: 2011

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Statistics are derived from data held by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), which administers vehicle registration and licensing records in Great Britain.

In 2011:

  • 34.2 million vehicles licensed for use on the roads in Great Britain, of which 28.5 million were cars
  • between 2010 and 2011 the total vehicle stock number increased by 0.3%
  • since the recession of 2008 to 2009, the annual growth in licensed vehicles has only averaged 0.4%, lower than the 2.4% averaged between 1996 and 2007
  • just over 2.38 million vehicles were registered for the first time in Great Britain in 2011
  • newly registered cars powered by diesel has continued to rise
  • proportion of cars registered for the first time that run on diesel has tipped over the 50% mark
  • average emissions from all the licensed cars first registered from 2001 onwards was down by 1.5% from 2010 to an average of 163 g/km
  • average CO2 emissions from cars newly registered in the year fell by over 4% from 2010 to an average figure of 138 g/km

Since 2001, the average emissions of new cars has fallen by over 21%. At the end of 2011, the most common car in Great Britain was the Ford Focus (1.4 million) followed by the Ford Fiesta (1.3 million).

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