Subaru Impreza MOT pass rates & common failures

How many Subaru Impreza cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 29,663 Subaru Impreza cars that were taxed or on SORN: 12,012 taxed and 17,651 on SORN (Statutory Off Road Notification — kept, but declared off the road by the keeper). The MOT figures above count tests; these count cars, across the whole United Kingdom, cars only. Subaru Impreza vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed Impreza cars peaked at 34,077 at the end of 2014 and has since fallen by 22,065 (64.8%) to 12,012 at the end of 2025. Cars on SORN went from 7,297 at the end of 2014 to 17,651 at the end of 2025, up 141.9%. A car leaves the taxed count when it is scrapped, exported or declared off the road; the year-end counts do not say which.

Taxed Impreza cars, year by year

Cars of this model taxed and on the road at the end of each year, 2014–2025.

Impreza cars on SORN, year by year

Cars of this model declared off the road at the end of each year, 2014–2025. Its own scale — for this model, cars on SORN outnumber taxed ones.

Which model years survive

Taxed Impreza cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 12,012 taxed in all. Every build year holding at least 1% has its own row; the rest share one. 2 taxed Impreza cars have no recorded year of manufacture and are not in the table, so the rows add up to 12,010. A build year's count depends on how many were sold that year as well as how many have lasted.

How the Impreza ages

First-time pass rate by vehicle age, Impreza vs all cars, 2025.

Better or worse than the average car?

The Impreza's pass rate minus the all-cars pass rate at each age, in percentage points. Bars above zero: the Impreza beats the average car of that age. Below zero: it trails.

The Impreza fleet on the road, by age

How many took a first MOT in 2025 at each age — the shape of the Impreza fleet still in use.

What an Impreza fails on

Where the failure items land when an Impreza fails or needs a fix at test, 2025. Use it as a pre-purchase checklist: these are the areas to look at first.

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (96.6% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

Where testers most often write "keep an eye on this" for a Impreza, 2025 — the faults in the post.

What mileage is normal for an Impreza?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) Impreza; the shaded band holds the middle half. A car far outside the band, in either direction, is worth questions the recorded history can answer.

What fails at each age

The Impreza's failure mix by age band, 2025 — each band's top categories at their true share of that band's failure items; the pale remainder is everything else. How the mix shifts with age is the point of the chart.