Avenger
Chrysler · on record 1994 to 2025
The Chrysler Avenger was the later badged version of the Rootes developed Hillman Avenger, a conventional rear wheel drive family saloon and estate that changed marque identity as ownership shifted. It retained familiar engines and practical packaging while Chrysler branding replaced Hillman in some markets. These cars were everyday transport, so surviving Chrysler badged Avengers are now uncommon and particularly useful for tracing corporate badge changes rather than mechanical evolution.
ENDANGERED
Red List classification, from population, five year trajectory and survival against peak. Reviewed each census.
29
licensed vehicles
2025 census
2025 census
1.7% of the peak fleet remains licensed
39
declared SORN
total surviving
peak 1,723 in 1994 · −1 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 2054.
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, 2006 to 2025.
Pass rate by year
| Failure reason | Failures | Share of all tests |
|---|---|---|
| A lamp missing, inoperative | 6 | 4.0% |
| An obligatory headlamp inoperative, excessively damaged or deteriorated or has a product on the lens or light source so that the light output is well below that required to illuminate the road ahead | 5 | 3.4% |
| Any deliberate modification, excessive corrosion, damage, cracks or inadequate repair of a load bearing body or chassis member which seriously affects its strength within 30cm of the body mountings | 5 | 3.4% |
| A brake hose ferrule excessively corroded | 4 | 2.7% |
| Deliberate modification which significantly reduces the original strength, excessive corrosion, severe distortion, a fracture or an inadequate repair of a load bearing member or its supporting structure or supporting panelling within 30cm of any sub- | 4 | 2.7% |
| The strength or continuity of the load bearing structure within 30cm of any sub-frame, spring or suspension component mounting (a 'prescribed area') is significantly reduced or inadequately repaired | 3 | 2.0% |
| The windscreen washers do not provide enough liquid to clear the windscreen in conjunction with the wiper(s) | 3 | 2.0% |
| A rear registration plate lamp or light source missing or inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources | 3 | 2.0% |
Counted across every recorded test, 2006 to 2025. Advisories are excluded.
Where the Avenger 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 |
|---|---|---|
| WS | 1 | 100% |
| LA | 1 | 100% |
| LE | 1 | 100% |
| LD | 1 | 100% |
| KW | 1 | 100% |
| SL | 1 | 100% |
| HP | 1 | 100% |
| S | 1 | 100% |
| NR | 1 | 100% |
How this record was calculated
LATEST CENSUS2025
POPULATION SOURCEDVLA VEH0220 annual
HISTORY SOURCEDVLA VEH0120 GB · to 2013
MOT SOURCEDVSA results · to 2025
FAMILY DEFINITIONCHRYSLER AVENGER
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.