Abarth car statistics

• Licensed in Great Britain 29,386 −1.8% on a year earlier
• Rank among makes No. 43 0.09% of licensed cars
• MOT first-time pass rate, 2025 77.1% Cars of the same ages 77.1%
• New registrations in 2025 289 0.01% of all new cars
• Most common fuel Petrol 97.3% of those licensed
• Safety recalls since 1992 2 naming 2 Abarth models

How many Abarth cars are on the road?

There were 29,386 Abarth cars licensed in Great Britain at the end of March 2026, and a further 1,770 declared off the road (SORN). That is 0.09% of all licensed cars, making Abarth the No. 43 make on the road. That is 1.1% fewer than the peak of 29,719 in 2024. Petrol makes up 97.3% of licensed Abarth cars, against 54.6% of all cars.

Abarth models

7 Abarth models have a page of their own. The most common is the Abarth 595, with 19,946 licensed: 67.9% of all Abarth cars on the road. The totals above also count models too small for a page of their own.

MOT pass rates are first-time passes of cars aged three and over in 2025. A dash means too few tests, or a model DVSA’s records do not separate from vans.

New Abarth cars registered each year

Registrations of new Abarth cars in Great Britain peaked at 5,515 in 2018. In 2025, 289 were registered for the first time: 0.01% of all new cars, against 0.24% in 2018, Abarth’s best year for share of new cars.

Abarth MOT reliability

In 2025, 77.1% of MOT tests of Abarth cars were passed first time, from 26,038 tests. Cars of the same ages pass 77.1% of the time, so Abarth does about as well as average for the age of its cars. That ranks Abarth No. 30 of the 50 makes with enough tests to compare. 6.7% of Abarth tests found at least one dangerous defect, against 7.3% for all cars.

Among Abarth models with enough tests, the 500 does best for its age (+2.1 points against cars of the same ages) and the 595 does worst (−0.7 points). Average age at test for Abarth cars: 8.4 years.

Every make and model ranked by MOT pass rate

Source:DVSA,UK Motoring analysis 2025 Updated 15 Sept 2026

Abarth safety recalls

DVSA lists 2 safety recalls naming a Abarth car model since 1992, across 2 models. 2 were launched from 2016 to 2025, ranking Abarth No. 53 of the makes with recalls in those years. A recall naming several Abarth models counts once.

Models mostly registered as vans are left out, as on our recalls hub. A recall applies to vehicles built on particular dates or with particular VINs, not to every Abarth. To check a specific car, use GOV.UK’s vehicle recall check. How we match recalls to models.

Source:DVSA,UK Motoring analysis January 1992 to September 2026 Updated 15 Sept 2026

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