MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Fiat Talento MOT pass rate
The Fiat Talento passed 72.02% of its 1,544 initial MOT tests in 2025 — below the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 5.3 percentage points worse than average.
How the Fiat Talento 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 Fiat Talento grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3–5 years | 458 | 80.13% |
| 6–10 years | 1,085 | 68.57% |
| 11 years and over | 1 | 100% |
Older Fiat Talento examples test at least as well as younger ones in this data, which is uncommon and usually reflects how these cars are used and maintained rather than the age itself.
Why the Fiat Talento fails its MOT
Across every Fiat Talento that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was suspension, accounting for 32.29% 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 | 32.29% | 362 |
| Steering | 14.54% | 163 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 14.09% | 158 |
| Brakes | 12.58% | 141 |
| Tyres | 8.03% | 90 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 7.4% | 83 |
How the Fiat Talento compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Fiat Talento sits 486th of 651 models in this data , and 17th of the 31 Fiat models covered . Fiat as a whole averaged 72.52%, so this model runs 0.5 points behind its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Fiat Talento
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Fiat Talento came to its 2025 test at 85,100 miles and 6.6 years old. Most examples tested 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 Fiat Talento
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 Fiat models
- Fiat 500 70.89% pass rate · 298,752 tests
- Fiat Panda 69.2% pass rate · 83,157 tests
- Fiat Ducato 77.88% pass rate · 71,135 tests
- Fiat Punto 63.87% pass rate · 51,222 tests
- Fiat Doblo 69.04% pass rate · 42,802 tests
- Fiat 500X 77.07% pass rate · 35,754 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
- Vauxhall Astra 72.34% pass rate
- Volkswagen Transporter 72.88% pass rate
- Nissan Micra 71.53% 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.