MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Alfa Romeo Giulia MOT pass rate
The Alfa Romeo Giulia passed 87.64% of its 7,073 initial MOT tests in 2025 — above the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 10.3 percentage points better than average.
How the Alfa Romeo Giulia 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 Alfa Romeo Giulia grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3–5 years | 1,949 | 88.87% |
| 6–10 years | 5,076 | 87.17% |
| 11 years and over | 41 | 85.37% |
The Alfa Romeo Giulia only loses 3.5 percentage points between its early years and the 11-plus bracket, so it holds its test performance unusually well as it ages.
Why the Alfa Romeo Giulia fails its MOT
Across every Alfa Romeo Giulia that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was tyres, accounting for 41.19% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tyres | 41.19% | 664 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 21.77% | 351 |
| Brakes | 17.62% | 284 |
| Suspension | 5.71% | 92 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 4.47% | 72 |
| Visibility | 3.72% | 60 |
How the Alfa Romeo Giulia compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Alfa Romeo Giulia sits 164th of 651 models in this data , and 2nd of the 7 Alfa Romeo models covered . Alfa Romeo as a whole averaged 72.07%, so this model runs 15.6 points ahead of its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Alfa Romeo Giulia
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Alfa Romeo Giulia came to its 2025 test at 50,198 miles and 6.5 years old. Most examples tested were petrol, though 22.72% were diesel.
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 Alfa Romeo Giulia
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 Alfa Romeo models
- Alfa Romeo Giulietta 69.88% pass rate · 24,200 tests
- Alfa Romeo Mito 66.26% pass rate · 17,224 tests
- Alfa Romeo Stelvio 89.48% pass rate · 3,660 tests
- Alfa Romeo Spider 74.8% pass rate · 3,135 tests
- Alfa Romeo 159 62.01% pass rate · 2,811 tests
- Alfa Romeo Brera 71.24% pass rate · 1,631 tests
Models with a similar pass rate
- MINI Cooper 87.98% pass rate
- Toyota Prius 86.68% pass rate
- MINI Countryman 88.41% pass rate
- Mercedes-Benz GLC 88.01% pass rate
- Vauxhall Crossland 86.74% pass rate
- Vauxhall Grandland 86.51% 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.