diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 0e836478c4..c4aa2c2739 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Depends:
     rtables (>= 0.6.7)
 Imports:
     broom (>= 0.5.4),
-    car (>= 3.0-13),
+    car (>= 3.1-1),
     checkmate (>= 2.1.0),
     cowplot (>= 1.0.0),
     dplyr (>= 1.0.0),