Where each one leads

SEAT Arona

• Fewer SEAT Arona cars in the Netherlands carry an illogical odometer record (1.3% against 4.2%).
• New SEAT Arona cars registered in Europe in 2022 average 126 g/km of CO₂ on the WLTP test, against 175 for the Suzuki Jimny in 2022.

Suzuki Jimny

• Against cars of the same age, the Suzuki Jimny comes out better at its first MOT test (passes 9% more often than average) than the SEAT Arona (passes as often as average).

Only measures that do not depend on how many cars were sold: pass and failure rates against cars of the same age, ratings, fuel use and CO₂. How we compare

At a glance

	SEAT Arona	Suzuki Jimny
New cars registered in Europe	401,691 (2017–2022)	138,777 (2010–2022)
Licensed in the United Kingdom	81,753	20,509
On the road in the Netherlands	17,819	4,978
In traffic in Finland	1,798	270

EEA new-car registrations (CC BY 4.0) · DVLA licensed vehicles (OGL v3.0) · RDW (CC0) · Traficom (CC BY 4.0) · generations: Wikidata (CC0).

Reliability and problems

	SEAT Arona	Suzuki Jimny
UK MOT first-time pass rate	86%	70%
… against cars of the same age	average	+9%
Illogical odometer records (NL)	1.3%	4.2%

Complaint, recall and bulletin counts grow with the number of cars sold and are not adjusted for it. UK MOT: DVSA anonymised MOT results (OGL v3.0); New York: DMV inspections; complaints, recalls, bulletins and investigations: NHTSA (public domain); odometer: RDW (CC0).

Fuel, emissions and price

	SEAT Arona	Suzuki Jimny
Real-world use in Europe, petrol	6.4 l/100 km	—
Official CO₂ of new cars in Europe	126 g/km	175 g/km
Average power of new cars in Europe	80 kW (107 hp)	73 kW (97 hp)
Average mass in running order	1,231 kg	1,160 kg
Dutch list price when new (median)	€28,458	€21,169
Average odometer in Finland	83,000 km	158,000 km

Canada: NRCan Fuel Consumption Ratings, most frugal version of the latest year (OGL Canada). Europe: EEA monitoring of new-car CO₂ and on-board fuel meters (OBFCM), CC BY 4.0. Price: RDW catalogue price (CC0). Finland: Traficom (CC BY 4.0).