15,230 supercars now on UK roads – Ferrari tops the supercar list with more than 10,000 cars

Publications featured in include: Car Dealer Magazine and City AM

There are now 15,230 supercars on UK roads, with Ferrari topping the list as the UK’s favourite supercar, shows our study.

Supercars are defined as high performance, road legal cars. Easily recognisable supercar brands such as Ferrari, McLaren and Lamborghini are best known for their speed and cost. The average price tag for a supercar in the UK is more than £770,000.

According to our automotive team, the most popular supercar brand in use in the UK is currently Ferrari, of which there are currently 10,695 on the road. McLaren and Lamborghini are the second and third favourite supercar brands in the UK with 2,419 and 2,099 cars respectively. The UK is home to only about 20 Bugatti and Koenigsegg cars with these having an average price of £2.3 million.

The UK’s supercar hotspot remains the London borough of Westminster, with 523 supercars* registered there. The borough ranks first out of 332 areas of the UK that have at least one supercar registered there.

Five London boroughs feature in the top ten (Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea, Wandsworth, Barnet and Camden). There are more than 3,000 in use supercars registered in London, making the capital the home to almost 20% of supercars on the UK’s roads.

Out of the top ten areas for supercars, only one is not in the South East of England. This area, East Cheshire, known for its ‘Golden Triangle’ of wealthy villages is home to some of the most famous Manchester and Liverpool-based footballers in the UK and as such 319 of the UK’s supercars. In Scotland, Edinburgh has the highest concentration of supercars with a total of 87.

Pandemic reduces the number of in use supercars in the UK

The number of in use supercars in the UK has decreased by 450 to 15,230 in the last year*, down from 15,680 in the previous year. Limits on foreign travel introduced during the pandemic meant many ultra high net worth individuals from overseas were unable to visit the UK or chose to leave the UK and return home during the pandemic. Every year a large number of wealthy individuals from overseas travel to the UK, some bringing multiple supercars.

With many of the pandemic-era travel restrictions worldwide now having been lifted, the firm says we can expect to see a higher number of supercars on the road again in 2022.

Ian McMahon, Partner at our Manchester office, said: “ We have seen a drop in the number of supercars being used in the UK over the past year. Ferrari remains the favourite supercar brand of choice with about 70% of the UK’s supercars being Ferraris.

“Now foreign travel is permitted again and the events that draw the world’s wealthy to these shores reopen, we should expect to see more supercars on UK roads again.”

“A big question is whether sales of supercars are really impervious to a broader slowdown in the global economy that results from Ukraine and rising interest rates.”

UK in use supercar table – Ferrari leads the way

Brand

2019

Number

2020

Number

Ferrari

10,619

10,695

McLaren

2,510

2,419

Lamborghini

2,368

2,099

Bugatti

169

16

Koenigsegg

10

<5

Total

15,676

15,229

UK in use supercar ownership hotspots

Rank

Top 10 2019

2019 Number

Top 10 2020

2020 Number

1

Westminster

532

Westminster

523

2

Kensington and Chelsea

479

Kensington and Chelsea

485

3

Cheshire East

296

Cheshire East

319

4

Elmbridge

237

Elmbridge

248

5

Woking

221

Windsor and Maidenhead

189

6

Windsor and Maidenhead

211

Wandsworth

184

7

Wandsworth

181

Barnet

177

8

Barnet

163

Camden

156

9

Camden

159

Leeds

155

10

Chiltern

153

Woking

155

* December 31 2020. Source: DVLA
** Bugatti, Ferrari, Koenigsegg, Lamborghini and McLaren

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