Dusty Rhodes
Member
Folks, hoping to add some facts to the long running question of how many Z4Ms there are in the UK and what flavour they are - Coupe or Roadster.
We’ve all been able to look at the How Many Left website which draws data from DVLA published statistics which you can download and check out yourself - the data set is called veh0220. If you navigate to row 6487 the spreadsheet will tell you that there are 759 Z4Ms on the road and a further 245 SORN. But as we know frustratingly it doesn’t give us the split of R/C. There was a guy on here a few years back who used a Freedom of Information question to ask the DVLA exactly this question but he never came back to tell us the result. Assuming that was a blunt instrument for a quite easy task I recently sent the DVLA a very obsequious request for the split. They came back to me today to confirm that for the 759 on the road, the split is 415 Roadsters and 344 Coupes. That’s a 55:45% split. But what about the SORN - well given these are the Summer numbers it’s probably fair to assume the split isn’t predjudiced by more Roadsters being SORN’d in Winter so just assume the 55:45 split holds so for 1,004 cars still on the DVLA books that’s about 552 Roadsters and 452 Coupes. Given the average SORN is about 250 it probably explains why we don’t see to many of our Brothers and Sisters on the road - quite a rare car given about 12,000 E46 M3s were registered in the UK.
Hope that helps.
We’ve all been able to look at the How Many Left website which draws data from DVLA published statistics which you can download and check out yourself - the data set is called veh0220. If you navigate to row 6487 the spreadsheet will tell you that there are 759 Z4Ms on the road and a further 245 SORN. But as we know frustratingly it doesn’t give us the split of R/C. There was a guy on here a few years back who used a Freedom of Information question to ask the DVLA exactly this question but he never came back to tell us the result. Assuming that was a blunt instrument for a quite easy task I recently sent the DVLA a very obsequious request for the split. They came back to me today to confirm that for the 759 on the road, the split is 415 Roadsters and 344 Coupes. That’s a 55:45% split. But what about the SORN - well given these are the Summer numbers it’s probably fair to assume the split isn’t predjudiced by more Roadsters being SORN’d in Winter so just assume the 55:45 split holds so for 1,004 cars still on the DVLA books that’s about 552 Roadsters and 452 Coupes. Given the average SORN is about 250 it probably explains why we don’t see to many of our Brothers and Sisters on the road - quite a rare car given about 12,000 E46 M3s were registered in the UK.
Hope that helps.
