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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.

EXTINCT ON ROAD

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

0 licensed vehicles
2025 census

0.0% of the peak fleet remains licensed PEAK PREDATES RECORDS

5
declared SORN
 
total surviving

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.

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.

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.

 
Pass rate by year
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

LATEST CENSUS2025
POPULATION SOURCEDVLA VEH0220 annual
HISTORY SOURCEDVLA VEH0120 GB · to 2013
MOT SOURCEDVSA results · to 2025
FAMILY DEFINITIONOPEL SPEEDSTER
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.