MOT failure rates by manufacturer

Every manufacturer with at least six model-and-year cohorts in the DVSA data. The national figure across all makes is 24.5%, so the column on the right is really a column of distances from that number.

• Ford 27.5% 39 models · 3,327,995 tests
• Vauxhall 30.7% 34 models · 2,279,114 tests
• Volkswagen 22.6% 39 models · 2,143,437 tests
• BMW 18.6% 44 models · 1,333,324 tests
• Audi 18.9% 17 models · 1,293,991 tests
• Mercedes-Benz 19.8% 28 models · 1,270,770 tests
• Nissan 27.7% 17 models · 1,265,224 tests
• Toyota 19.9% 22 models · 1,063,609 tests
• Peugeot 30.1% 21 models · 1,044,053 tests
• Citroen 33.6% 20 models · 773,078 tests
• Kia 24.1% 15 models · 755,890 tests
• Hyundai 24.4% 17 models · 738,390 tests
• Renault 34.2% 18 models · 707,239 tests
• Skoda 19.9% 12 models · 636,469 tests
• Land Rover 18.7% 18 models · 610,762 tests
• MINI 17.5% 13 models · 576,725 tests
• Fiat 28.9% 19 models · 549,006 tests
• Honda 17.6% 8 models · 524,112 tests
• SEAT 23.4% 11 models · 455,749 tests
• Volvo 23% 13 models · 379,642 tests
• Mazda 22.6% 7 models · 352,296 tests
• Suzuki 21.4% 11 models · 308,257 tests
• Jaguar 17.4% 9 models · 244,670 tests
• Mitsubishi 22.7% 9 models · 198,256 tests
• Dacia 28.2% 3 models · 175,753 tests

Manufacturer marks are the property of their owners and appear here to identify the make each page is about. Data: DVSA anonymised MOT tests, 2023, under the Open Government Licence v3.0.