Vauxhall Antara MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Vauxhall Antara in Great Britain in 2025 — 18,445 tests. Figures cover every Antara first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the Antara ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
53.3%
19.0 points below the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
18,445
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
13.3%
of Antara first tests; national 7.3%
Typical mileage at 10 years
76,250
middle half: 61,250–93,750 miles (2,500-mile-band midpoints)

How many Vauxhall Antara cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 18,498 Vauxhall Antara cars that were taxed or on SORN: 16,369 taxed and 2,129 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. Vauxhall Antara vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
16,369
88.5% of the 18,498 Antara cars taxed or on SORN; 24 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
2,129
declared off the road by their keepers — 11.5% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed Antara cars peaked at 25,976 at the end of 2016 and has since fallen by 9,607 (37.0%) to 16,369 at the end of 2025. Cars on SORN went from 99 at the end of 2014 to 2,129 at the end of 2025, up 2050.5%. 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 Antara cars, year by year

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

010k20k30k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Taxed Antara cars, year 2014: 23kTaxed Antara cars, year 2015: 25kTaxed Antara cars, year 2016: 26kTaxed Antara cars, year 2017: 26kTaxed Antara cars, year 2018: 25kTaxed Antara cars, year 2019: 25kTaxed Antara cars, year 2020: 24kTaxed Antara cars, year 2021: 23kTaxed Antara cars, year 2022: 22kTaxed Antara cars, year 2023: 21kTaxed Antara cars, year 2024: 19kTaxed Antara cars, year 2025: 16k16k
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YearTaxed Antara cars
201423,497
201524,903
201625,976
201725,844
201825,333
201924,771
202024,114
202123,406
202222,260
202320,766
202418,718
202516,369

Antara 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 — SORN counts are a fraction of the taxed count.

05001k2k2k2k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Antara cars on SORN, year 2014: 99Antara cars on SORN, year 2015: 155Antara cars on SORN, year 2016: 158Antara cars on SORN, year 2017: 231Antara cars on SORN, year 2018: 344Antara cars on SORN, year 2019: 521Antara cars on SORN, year 2020: 711Antara cars on SORN, year 2021: 851Antara cars on SORN, year 2022: 1kAntara cars on SORN, year 2023: 1kAntara cars on SORN, year 2024: 2kAntara cars on SORN, year 2025: 2k2k
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YearAntara cars on SORN
201499
2015155
2016158
2017231
2018344
2019521
2020711
2021851
20221,055
20231,345
20241,793
20252,129

Which model years survive

Taxed Antara cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 16,369 taxed in all. Every build year holding at least 1% has its own row; the rest share one. A build year's count depends on how many were sold that year as well as how many have lasted.

Year of manufacture Taxed, end of 2025Share of taxed Antara cars
20167754.7%
20151,86811.4%
20142,29414.0%
20135,43633.2%
20124,41126.9%
20116123.7%
20101721.1%
20093422.1%
20082781.7%
20071701.0%
All other build years (two years, each under 1%)110.1%

Population source: Department for Transport / DVLA vehicle licensing statistics, table VEH0124, updated 15 July 2026; counts of the cars on DVLA's register that were taxed or on SORN at the end of each year shown, United Kingdom, cars only, excluding cars recorded with no model name. SortedCars groups DVLA's model name ANTARA under this model. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. SortedCars is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, DVLA or the Department for Transport.

How the Antara ages

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

Vauxhall AntaraAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Vauxhall Antara, vehicle age 9: 56.2%Vauxhall Antara, vehicle age 10: 54.5%Vauxhall Antara, vehicle age 11: 53.1%Vauxhall Antara, vehicle age 12: 54.5%Vauxhall Antara, vehicle age 13: 52.2%Vauxhall Antara, vehicle age 14: 50.9%All cars, vehicle age 3: 88.5%All cars, vehicle age 4: 87.2%All cars, vehicle age 5: 86%All cars, vehicle age 6: 83.5%All cars, vehicle age 7: 80.9%All cars, vehicle age 8: 78.2%All cars, vehicle age 9: 74.9%All cars, vehicle age 10: 71.9%All cars, vehicle age 11: 68.6%All cars, vehicle age 12: 65.8%All cars, vehicle age 13: 63.5%All cars, vehicle age 14: 61.2%All cars, vehicle age 15: 59.3%All cars, vehicle age 16: 58.3%All cars, vehicle age 17: 57.2%All cars, vehicle age 18: 57.4%All cars, vehicle age 19: 57%All cars, vehicle age 20: 57.6%All cars 57.6%Vauxhall Antara 50.9%
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Age (years)Antara testsAntara pass rateAll cars
979256.2%74.9%
102,02254.5%71.9%
112,46553.1%68.6%
126,12154.5%65.8%
135,10952.2%63.5%
1469750.9%61.2%

Better or worse than the average car?

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

Antara behind
-20-10+0+10+20Age 9: -18.7 points vs the average car9Age 10: -17.4 points vs the average carAge 11: -15.5 points vs the average car11Age 12: -11.3 points vs the average carAge 13: -11.3 points vs the average car13Age 14: -10.3 points vs the average carVehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
9-18.7
10-17.4
11-15.5
12-11.3
13-11.3
14-10.3

The Antara fleet on the road, by age

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

01k3k5k7kAge 9: 7929Age 10: 2kAge 11: 2k11Age 12: 6kAge 13: 5k13Age 14: 69714Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
9792
102,022
112,465
126,121
135,109
14697

What an Antara fails on

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

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment34.5%
Suspension20.7%
Brakes16.3%
Tyres8.6%
Noise, emissions and leaks6.1%
Visibility5.7%
Body, chassis, structure4.2%
Steering1.8%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (98.1% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

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

Suspension: 33.1% of advisories33.1%Brakes: 23.8% of advisories23.8%Tyres: 19.8% of advisories19.8%Noise, emissions and leaks: 10.5% of advisories10.5%Non-component advisories: 3.8% of advisoriesBody, chassis, structure: 3.5% of advisories
SuspensionBrakesTyresNoise, emissions and leaksNon-component advisoriesBody, chassis, structure
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CategoryShare of advisories
Suspension33.1%
Brakes23.8%
Tyres19.8%
Noise, emissions and leaks10.5%
Non-component advisories3.8%
Body, chassis, structure3.5%

What mileage is normal for an Antara?

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

Typical Antara (median)
0k25k50k75k100k125k9111314Vehicle age (years)Age 9: typical 71,250 miles (middle half 56,250–88,750)Age 10: typical 76,250 miles (middle half 61,250–93,750)Age 11: typical 83,750 miles (middle half 66,250–101,250)Age 12: typical 88,750 miles (middle half 73,750–106,250)Age 13: typical 91,250 miles (middle half 76,250–108,750)Age 14: typical 101,250 miles (middle half 83,750–118,750)101k mi

Mileage values are midpoints of 2,500-mile bands.

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
956,25071,25088,750
1061,25076,25093,750
1166,25083,750101,250
1273,75088,750106,250
1376,25091,250108,750
1483,750101,250118,750

What fails at each age

The Antara'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.

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSuspensionBrakesTyresNoise, emissions and leaksBody, chassis, structureEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
6-9 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment37.2%
6-9 yrsSuspension20.0%
6-9 yrsBrakes16.0%
6-9 yrsTyres14.2%
6-9 yrsNoise, emissions and leaks6.4%
6-9 yrsEverything else6.2%
10-13 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment30.4%
10-13 yrsSuspension23.2%
10-13 yrsBrakes18.0%
10-13 yrsTyres9.5%
10-13 yrsNoise, emissions and leaks6.4%
10-13 yrsEverything else12.5%
14+ yrsSuspension22.8%
14+ yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment21.9%
14+ yrsBrakes19.1%
14+ yrsBody, chassis, structure10.9%
14+ yrsTyres7.2%
14+ yrsEverything else18.1%

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How these figures are computed. Every number on this page is calculated by SortedCars from the DVSA anonymised MOT results dataset (every MOT test in Great Britain — 2025 for single-year figures; trend figures state their span, currently 2023–2025). Where a figure comes from a sample or uses banded values (mileage is banded to 2,500 miles), the page says so beside the figure. Test class 4 only, first tests only — retests are excluded. Class 4 is the car MOT class and also covers car-derived vans, pickups and motorhomes tested to the same standard; where this page says "cars" it means class 4. Pass rate = passes ÷ (passes + failures + pass-after-rectification): a vehicle that failed and was fixed during the visit counts as a fail. Pass rates describe fleets, not individual machines: they reflect how cars were driven, maintained and used as well as how they were built, and beyond recorded mileage none of that is in the data. A well-kept example of a model with a weak average can still pass; a neglected example of a strong one can still fail. No figure is shown for any group with fewer than 500 tests. Alias spellings of a make in the DVSA file are counted under one make name, and all trims and variants of a model are grouped under one model name, using SortedCars' grouping tables. The taxed and SORN counts on this page are the one exception: they are not computed from MOT records but taken from the Department for Transport's vehicle licensing statistics (DfT/DVLA table VEH0124, updated 15 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0), which count the cars on DVLA's register that were taxed or on SORN at the end of each year shown, UK-wide, cars only. They describe a model as a whole, grouped under SortedCars' model names, and say nothing about any one car. “Dangerous” is DVSA's statutory defect category (in force since May 2018): a defect posing an immediate risk to road safety — driving the vehicle before repair is an offence. What these figures are for. These statistics are general information about groups of vehicles. They are not advice, a valuation or a recommendation to buy, avoid or price any particular vehicle, and no decision about one car should rest on them alone — check the car itself and its own records. We take care over the calculations, but we cannot guarantee they are complete, current or free of error, and we accept no liability for loss arising from reliance on them. This does not limit any liability that cannot lawfully be limited — see our Terms & Conditions. If you believe any figure on this page is inaccurate, contact us. SortedCars is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the DVSA or DVLA. DVSA publishes the raw test records; the statistics on this page are SortedCars' own calculations from them. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.