Gl
Subaru · on record 1994 to 2025
The Subaru Gl entry looks primarily like a registration or type approval label rather than a model name commonly used by British buyers. Older Subaru registrations sometimes recorded trim, drivetrain or equipment wording where a modern database would expect a family name, often on compact flat engined saloons, estates or hatchbacks. Keeping the Gl label intact preserves the source record without implying a separate showroom model that the evidence does not establish.
Red List classification, from population, five year trajectory and survival against peak. Reviewed each census.
2025 census
0.0% of the peak fleet remains licensed
peak 74 in 1994 · −0 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.
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, 2005 to 2023.
| Failure reason | Failures | Share of all tests |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 22.2% |
| The grooves of the tread pattern are not at least 1.6mm throughout a continuous band comprising the central three-quarters of the breadth of tread, and round the entire outer circumference of the tyre | 2 | 11.1% |
| A transmission shaft constant velocity joint boot severely deteriorated | 2 | 11.1% |
| A rear registration plate lamp with any lamp not working | 2 | 11.1% |
| During the idle test, the level of carbon monoxide (co) exceeds the vehicle specific or default limit continuously for the last 5 seconds of the 30 second countdown. | 2 | 11.1% |
| Excessive play in a ball joint | 2 | 11.1% |
| Significant braking effort recorded on a road wheel, even though the brake is not applied, indicating that a brake is binding | 2 | 11.1% |
| During the 2nd fast idle test the carbon monoxide (co) exceeds the vehicle specific or default limits continuously for the last 5 seconds of the 30 second countdown: | 2 | 11.1% |
Counted across every recorded test, 2005 to 2023. Advisories are excluded.
Where the Gl remains
Based on MOT test locations, 2023. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| PE | 1 | 100% |
How this record was calculated
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.