MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Abarth 500 MOT pass rate
The Abarth 500 passed 72.65% of its 5,235 initial MOT tests in 2025 — below the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 4.6 percentage points worse than average.
How the Abarth 500 holds up with age
Every car fails the MOT more often as it gets older. What matters when you are buying is how steeply that happens for this particular model. These are the 2025 pass rates for the Abarth 500 grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 6–10 years | 786 | 74.68% |
| 11 years and over | 4,449 | 72.29% |
Why the Abarth 500 fails its MOT
Across every Abarth 500 that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was suspension, accounting for 29.96% of all recorded failure items. These are the areas worth having checked before you buy, and worth budgeting for on an older example.
| Failure area | Share of failure items | Recorded items |
|---|---|---|
| Suspension | 29.96% | 1,233 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 21.51% | 885 |
| Brakes | 11.62% | 478 |
| Tyres | 11.37% | 468 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 9.55% | 393 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 8.34% | 343 |
How the Abarth 500 compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Abarth 500 sits 479th of 651 models in this data , and 4th of the 4 Abarth models covered . Abarth as a whole averaged 81.29%, so this model runs 8.6 points behind its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Abarth 500
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Abarth 500 came to its 2025 test at 72,873 miles and 13.1 years old. Most examples tested were petrol.
The useful check is the individual car's own MOT record: how many times it has failed, what for, and whether advisories keep reappearing. A recurring advisory on corrosion, suspension or brakes tells you far more than a model-wide average, and a mileage that does not move consistently between tests is a warning in itself.
Check a specific Abarth 500
Run the registration through a free MOT history check to see that car's test results, advisories and recorded mileages. For the risks an MOT never covers — outstanding finance, insurance write-off records, stolen markers and ownership history — a full car history check brings them together in one £15 report.
Also useful: mileage check · write-off check · free car check
Other Abarth models
- Abarth 595 82.65% pass rate · 18,516 tests
- Abarth 595C 84.26% pass rate · 2,147 tests
- Abarth 124 Spider 89.15% pass rate · 1,724 tests
Models with a similar pass rate
- Ford Fiesta 72.78% pass rate
- Vauxhall Corsa 71.57% pass rate
- Volkswagen Polo 73.12% pass rate
- Nissan Qashqai 73.5% pass rate
- Vauxhall Astra 72.34% pass rate
- Volkswagen Transporter 72.88% pass rate
Figures aggregated from the DVSA MOT Anonymised data set for 2025, class 4 initial tests only, contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Retests are excluded, so these are first-time pass rates.