VAUXHALL · VAUXHALL ADAM · Cars
As of 2025 Q4, 56,689 VAUXHALL ADAMs remain registered in the UK — still a familiar sight on today's roads. That's down from a peak of 58,812 in 2019 Q4 — only 96% of the high-water mark, a loss of about 2,123 cars. Numbers have held broadly steady over recent years rather than falling away — often the mark of a model that owners deliberately preserve.
Common — still a familiar sight, with 56,689 on the road.
Rarer than 6% of the 2,408 UK car models we track.
The Opel Adam is a city car engineered and produced by the German car manufacturer Opel, and is named after the company's founder Adam Opel. It was sold under the Vauxhall marque in the United Kingdom. It was launched in France at the 2012 Paris Motor Show, with sales starting in the beginning of 2013. On 10 October 2018, Opel and its British subsidiary, Vauxhall, announced that in order to optimise its model lineup and focus on high volume segments, the company would retire its Adam, Karl, Cascada and Viva models after the end of their life cycles, in approximately one year. No successor model...
As of 2025 Q4, 56,689 VAUXHALL ADAM were still registered in the UK — 55,548 licensed and on the road, plus 1,141 declared SORN (off-road). The figures come from official DVLA vehicle licensing data.
The VAUXHALL ADAM is common, with 56,689 still on the road, making it rarer than 6% of the 2,408 UK car models we track.
Over the last year the number of VAUXHALL ADAM on UK roads fell by 510 (0.9%).
Most VAUXHALL ADAM run on petrol — about 100% of those still registered, with the rest split across gas (lpg), diesel.
The VAUXHALL ADAM peaked at 58,812 registered in 2019 Q4, and was first recorded in the data in 2014 Q3.