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Makes / Aston Martin / DBS

DBS

Aston Martin · on record 1994 to 2025

The Aston Martin DBS name has been used in more than 1 era, first for a late 1960s grand tourer and later for high performance V12 models derived from the DB9 and DB11 families. In each case it sat above the regular DB car in power and visual aggression. The badge therefore identifies a performance flagship rather than 1 continuous design, and surviving examples attract strong enthusiast interest.

GROWING

Red List classification, from population, five year trajectory and survival against peak. Reviewed each census.

1,535 licensed vehicles
2025 census

98.1% of the peak fleet remains licensed

548
declared SORN
 
total surviving

peak 1,565 in 2023  ·  +15 vehicles a year, five year trend

Population history

Licensed and SORN vehicles at each census. The filters below apply to the family population, MOT and registration figures. They do not alter the generation history above.

Licensed SORN Latest census observation SOURCE DVLA VEH0120 / VEH0220

Inside the surviving fleet

AutoCensus parses every DVLA variant description, so the fleet can be read by fuel and specification rather than as one number.

First registrations by year

When surviving examples first joined the British fleet.

New registrations

Vehicles first registered each year. A fleet still being sold shows here; a finished one shows only imports.

MOT reliability

DVSA test results for this family, 2005 to 2025.

 
Pass rate by year
Failure reason Failures Share of all tests
An obligatory lamp inoperative or less than 50% of the light sources illuminating 107 0.6%
The windscreen washers do not provide enough liquid to clear the windscreen in conjunction with the wiper(s) 101 0.6%
Windscreen or window damaged or seriously discoloured but not adversely affecting driver's view 94 0.5%
The grooves of the tread pattern are not at least 1.6mm throughout a continuous band comprising the central three-quarters of the breadth of tread, and round the entire outer circumference of the tyre 69 0.4%
The calculated parking brake efficiency is too low 62 0.4%
A lamp missing, inoperative 59 0.3%
A stop lamp inoperative or less than 50% of the light sources illuminating 56 0.3%
Amalgamation of failures for all headlamp testers 53 0.3%

Counted across every recorded test, 2005 to 2025. Advisories are excluded.

Where the DBS remains

Based on MOT test locations, 2025. Test location is a proxy: a vehicle is counted where it was last tested, not where it is kept.

Postcode area Vehicles tested Pass rate
MK 122 87%
KT 76 93%
LS 71 96%
BS 70 93%
SK 66 92%
NG 64 95%
RG 58 97%
CM 56 98%
AL 52 94%
NW 51 96%
TN 49 96%
GL 48 94%
B 48 100%
NE 38 95%
CV 35 91%
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How this record was calculated

LATEST CENSUS2025
POPULATION SOURCEDVLA VEH0220 annual
HISTORY SOURCEDVLA VEH0120 GB · to 2013
MOT SOURCEDVSA results · to 2025
FAMILY DEFINITIONASTON MARTIN DBS
PROCESSED20 Sep 2026
Full methodology

Population history combines DVLA VEH0120 Q4 census observations through 2013 with the annual VEH0220 census from 2014 onward. Figures before 2014 cover Great Britain only. Historical VEH0120 is used only when its overlapping UK observations reconcile to the current canonical family definition. Vehicles are grouped into this family using the DVLA GenModel together with durable routing rules for known inconsistencies.

Variant figures are parsed from raw DVLA model descriptions and the original string is always retained. Configuration is only assigned where the model description explicitly identifies it; a blank configuration is not treated as a two door Wrangler. Blank transmission fields are shown as manual because DVLA records the field for automatic vehicles.

MOT figures count tests, not vehicles, and geographic figures count each vehicle at its most recent test location. The decline projection is a straight line fitted to the latest five years and is illustrative only.