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Makes / Mercedes-Benz / E Class

E Class

Mercedes-Benz · on record 1994 to 2025

DECLINING

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

211,996 licensed vehicles
2025 census

82.1% of the peak fleet remains licensed

42,033
declared SORN
 
total surviving

peak 258,115 in 2019  ·  −10,183 vehicles a year, five year trend

Population history

Licensed and SORN vehicles at each census. Filters apply to the population, MOT and registration figures together.

Licensed SORN Latest census observation SOURCE DVLA VEH0120 / VEH0220

At the average decline recorded over the latest five years, the licensed fleet would reach zero around 2045.

Illustrative projection only; vehicle populations rarely decline linearly. Late fleets typically flatten as surviving examples enter preservation.

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
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 60 5.4%
Brake pipe damaged or excessively corroded 26 2.3%
A stop lamp inoperative or less than 50% of the light sources illuminating 17 1.5%
Excessive play in a ball joint 14 1.3%
Windscreen or window damaged or seriously discoloured but not adversely affecting driver's view 13 1.2%
A spring or spring component fractured or seriously weakened 12 1.1%
Excessive play in a front wheel bearing 11 1.0%
An obligatory lamp inoperative or less than 50% of the light sources illuminating 11 1.0%

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

Where the E Class 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
BL 5 40%
G 4 50%
PE 3 67%
S 2 50%
NN 2 50%
NG 2 100%
WS 2 50%
HD 1 100%
AL 1 100%
BN 1 100%
BD 1 100%
DN 1 100%
M 1 100%
NE 1 100%
CH 1 100%
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How this record was calculated

LATEST CENSUS2025
POPULATION SOURCEDVLA VEH0220 quarterly
HISTORY SOURCEDVLA VEH0120 GB · to 2013
MOT SOURCEDVSA results · to 2025
FAMILY DEFINITIONMERCEDES E CLASS
PROCESSED20 Jul 2026
Full methodology

Population figures count vehicles recorded as licensed or SORN in the DVLA quarterly extract. Figures before 2014 cover Great Britain only. Vehicles are grouped into this family by the DVLA GenModel key shown above, with routing rules for known inconsistencies.

Variant figures are parsed from raw DVLA model descriptions and the original string is always retained. 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.