MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Cupra Born MOT pass rate
The Cupra Born passed 92.03% of its 4,644 initial MOT tests in 2025 — above the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 14.7 percentage points better than average.
How the Cupra Born 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 Cupra Born grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3–5 years | 4,477 | 92.03% |
Why the Cupra Born fails its MOT
Across every Cupra Born that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was tyres, accounting for 79.04% 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 | 79.04% | 460 |
| Visibility | 4.98% | 29 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 4.81% | 28 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 3.61% | 21 |
| Suspension | 3.26% | 19 |
| Brakes | 2.41% | 14 |
How the Cupra Born compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Cupra Born sits 40th of 651 models in this data , and 1st of the 2 Cupra models covered . Cupra as a whole averaged 90.98%, so this model runs 1.1 points ahead of its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Cupra Born
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Cupra Born came to its 2025 test at 27,583 miles and 3 years old. Most examples tested were electric.
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 Cupra Born
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 Cupra models
- Cupra Formentor 90.64% pass rate · 14,392 tests
Models with a similar pass rate
- Kia Niro 91.13% pass rate
- Ford Puma 93.18% pass rate
- Volkswagen T-ROC 92.71% pass rate
- Volvo XC40 91.46% pass rate
- Audi Q2 92.02% pass rate
- Skoda Karoq 90.93% 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.