Ls 650
Suzuki · on record 1996 to 2025
The Suzuki Ls 650 belongs to the commuter and cruiser family and is a road or cruiser motorcycle, not a conventional passenger car. These Suzuki road bikes use straightforward engines and conventional chassis layouts for commuting, relaxed cruising or accessible everyday riding rather than extreme performance. For the Ls 650, retaining the full registration code matters because its letters and numbers can distinguish capacity, generation or specification from neighbouring entries.
ENDANGERED
Red List classification, from population, five year trajectory and survival against peak. Reviewed each census.
29
licensed vehicles
2025 census
2025 census
58.0% of the peak fleet remains licensed
63
declared SORN
total surviving
peak 50 in 2008 · −2 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
At the average decline recorded over the latest five years, the licensed fleet would reach zero around 2037.
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.
Recent UK first registrations
This family is no longer sold new. These figures are imports and historic vehicles joining the British register for the first time.
How this record was calculated
LATEST CENSUS2025
POPULATION SOURCEDVLA VEH0220 annual
HISTORY SOURCEDVLA VEH0120 GB · to 2013
FAMILY DEFINITIONSUZUKI LS 650
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.