Rekord (Opel)

Vauxhall · on record 1994 to 2025

The Vauxhall Rekord (Opel) entry looks primarily like a registration or type approval label rather than a model name commonly used by British buyers. This is primarily an Opel model name appearing under the Vauxhall make in registration data, likely through import, shared General Motors coding or historic administrative treatment rather than normal Vauxhall UK badging. The Rekord (Opel) remains useful as a separate census label, but a more exact interpretation should wait for additional registration or vehicle evidence.

GROWING

Red List classification, from population, five year trajectory and survival against peak. Reviewed each census.

32 licensed vehicles
2025 census

0.9% of the peak fleet remains licensed PEAK PREDATES RECORDS

declared SORN

total surviving

peak 3,751 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 SOURCE DVLA VEH0120 / VEH0220

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.

Recent UK first registrations

This family is no longer sold new. These figures are imports and historic vehicles joining the British register for the first time.

MOT reliability

DVSA test results for this family, 2005 to 2025.

Pass rate by year

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-	26	4.7%
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	20	3.6%
The windscreen washers do not provide enough liquid to clear the windscreen in conjunction with the wiper(s)	15	2.7%
The calculated out-of-balance of the brakes across an axle is greater than 30%	15	2.7%
A rigid brake pipe excessively chafed, corroded or damaged	14	2.5%
A stop lamp inoperative or less than 50% of the light sources illuminating	13	2.3%
Amalgamation of failures for all headlamp testers	12	2.1%
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 panelling within 30 cms of a seat belt ancho	10	1.8%

Counted across every recorded test, 2005 to 2025. Advisories are excluded.

Where the Rekord (Opel) 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
B	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 DEFINITIONOPEL REKORD

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.