Makes / Vauxhall / Speedster (Opel)
Speedster (Opel)
Vauxhall · on record 2002 to 2025
The Vauxhall Speedster (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 Speedster (Opel) remains useful as a separate census label, but a more exact interpretation should wait for additional registration or vehicle evidence.
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 7 in 2002 · −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.
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 2025.
| Failure reason | Failures | Share of all tests |
|---|---|---|
| A rear registration plate lamp or light source missing or inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources | 6 | 5.1% |
| The windscreen washers do not provide enough liquid to clear the windscreen in conjunction with the wiper(s) | 4 | 3.4% |
| Amalgamation of failures for all headlamp testers | 4 | 3.4% |
| Number plate missing or so insecure that it is likely to fall off | 3 | 2.6% |
| Warning device shows system malfunction | 3 | 2.6% |
| Amalgamation of failures for all headlamp testers | 2 | 1.7% |
| Brake servo defective or ineffective | 2 | 1.7% |
| A wheel stud, bolt or nut loose or missing | 2 | 1.7% |
Counted across every recorded test, 2005 to 2025. Advisories are excluded.
Where the Speedster (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 |
|---|---|---|
| BN | 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.