MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Ford Mustang MOT pass rate
The Ford Mustang passed 87.73% of its 18,749 initial MOT tests in 2025 — above the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 10.4 percentage points better than average.
How the Ford Mustang 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 Ford Mustang grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3–5 years | 8,175 | 91.51% |
| 6–10 years | 8,065 | 84.64% |
| 11 years and over | 2,400 | 85.13% |
The Ford Mustang loses 6.4 percentage points between its early years and the 11-plus bracket — a normal pattern for a car of this age, but still worth checking the individual history.
Why the Ford Mustang fails its MOT
Across every Ford Mustang that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was brakes, accounting for 29.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Brakes | 29.5% | 1,457 |
| Tyres | 27.09% | 1,338 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 13.79% | 681 |
| Visibility | 9.09% | 449 |
| Suspension | 7.77% | 384 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 4.9% | 242 |
How the Ford Mustang compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Ford Mustang sits 159th of 651 models in this data , and 4th of the 24 Ford models covered . Ford as a whole averaged 75.22%, so this model runs 12.5 points ahead of its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Ford Mustang
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Ford Mustang came to its 2025 test at 38,240 miles and 7.7 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 Ford Mustang
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 Ford models
- Ford Fiesta 72.78% pass rate · 1,355,783 tests
- Ford Focus 74.62% pass rate · 890,938 tests
- Ford Transit 74.63% pass rate · 644,474 tests
- Ford Kuga 83.58% pass rate · 304,554 tests
- Ford Mondeo 73.09% pass rate · 171,873 tests
- Ford KA 72.11% pass rate · 169,319 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
- Jaguar F-Pace 87.53% 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.