MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Bentley Continental MOT pass rate
The Bentley Continental passed 92.93% of its 14,329 initial MOT tests in 2025 — above the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 15.6 percentage points better than average.
How the Bentley Continental 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 Bentley Continental grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3–5 years | 1,165 | 97.08% |
| 6–10 years | 3,686 | 95.93% |
| 11 years and over | 9,456 | 91.24% |
The Bentley Continental only loses 5.8 percentage points between its early years and the 11-plus bracket, so it holds its test performance unusually well as it ages.
Why the Bentley Continental fails its MOT
Across every Bentley Continental that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was tyres, accounting for 21.32% 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 | 21.32% | 435 |
| Brakes | 17.3% | 353 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 17.06% | 348 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 14.8% | 302 |
| Suspension | 10.44% | 213 |
| Visibility | 5.49% | 112 |
How the Bentley Continental compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Bentley Continental sits 25th of 651 models in this data , and 2nd of the 2 Bentley models covered . Bentley as a whole averaged 93.46%, so this model runs 0.5 points behind its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Bentley Continental
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Bentley Continental came to its 2025 test at 45,879 miles and 13.8 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 Bentley Continental
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 Bentley models
- Bentley Bentayga 96.12% pass rate · 2,833 tests
Models with a similar pass rate
- Ford Puma 93.18% pass rate
- Volkswagen T-ROC 92.71% pass rate
- Audi Q2 92.02% pass rate
- Porsche Macan 92.38% pass rate
- Lexus NX 93.11% pass rate
- Jaguar I-Pace 92.8% 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.