Volkswagen California

Car Van

3 variants · 7 registers with powertrain counts

Years on record

The first and last year each official register has the Volkswagen California on record.

Netherlands: 1980–2026; Surviving fleet by first-registration year.
Finland: 2007–2026; Surviving fleet by first-registration year.

Worldwide popularity

Top 20% worldwide

Measured from real registration and fleet counts, not clicks or hype.

Where it's been spotted

Australia Finland Luxembourg Netherlands New Zealand Norway Spain Switzerland Ukraine United Kingdom

Evidence of real vehicles in each country's official register. Grey imports count, because they're real vehicles on real roads.

Variants

3 variants · 7 registers with powertrain counts

Powertrain counts straight from official registers, each with what that register counts.

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Building on it? The same record is one API call: /api/v1/vehicles/car/volkswagen/california/full

Registration history

Netherlands: Surviving fleet by first-registration year

Finland: Surviving fleet by first-registration year

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Netherlands
1980	1
1989	2
1990	3
1991	53
1992	59
1993	34
1994	39
1995	53
1996	43
1997	61
1998	152
1999	177
2000	179
2001	230
2002	202
2003	246
2004	159
2005	304
2006	372
2007	335
2008	229
2009	201
2010	311
2011	306
2012	284
2013	261
2014	290
2015	310
2016	415
2017	346
2018	437
2019	399
2020	350
2021	440
2022	304
2023	351
2024	171
2025	307
2026	144

Finland
2007	1
2008	4
2010	1
2011	1
2013	1
2014	1
2015	1
2016	1
2017	2
2020	1
2022	1
2023	3
2024	5
2025	5
2026	6

From official registers, as of 2026.10.3. Bases differ per country, so never compare across panels.

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The Volkswagen California as JSON, one request away: its canonical id, where it is registered and how popular it is.

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GET …/car/volkswagen/california/full free plan response

{
  "id": "car/volkswagen/california",
  "name": "California",
  "make": {
    "id": "volkswagen",
    "name": "Volkswagen"
  },
  "kind": "car",
  "body_type": "van",
  "availability": [
    "au",
    "ch",
    "es",
    "fi",
    "gb",
    "lu",
    "nl",
    "no",
    "nz",
    "ua"
  ],
  "regions": [
    "eu",
    "oc"
  ],
  "popularity": {
    "global_decile": 4,
    "mass_decile": 2,
    "rarity": "average"
  },
  "aliases": [],
  "former_ids": [
    "car/volkswagen/california-beach",
    "car/volkswagen/california-exclusive",
    "car/volkswagen/california-generation"
  ],
  "years": null,
  "era": null,
  "enrichment": null,
  "enrichment_gated": true,
  "dataset_version": "2026.10.3",
  "upgrade_url": "https://vehiclesdb.com/pricing",
  "attribution": {
    "source": "VehiclesDB",
    "url": "https://vehiclesdb.com",
    "license": "Identity layer: CC-BY-4.0; enrichment/resolution: proprietary. Display requires visible credit — see https://vehiclesdb.com/legal/attribution",
    "dataset_version": "2026.10.3"
  }
}

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