MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Mazda 2 Sport MOT pass rate
The Mazda 2 Sport passed 93.81% of its 2,506 initial MOT tests in 2025 — above the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 16.5 percentage points better than average.
How the Mazda 2 Sport 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 Mazda 2 Sport grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3–5 years | 2,331 | 93.82% |
| 6–10 years | 175 | 93.71% |
Why the Mazda 2 Sport fails its MOT
Across every Mazda 2 Sport that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was tyres, accounting for 39.34% 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 | 39.34% | 120 |
| Brakes | 26.23% | 80 |
| Visibility | 17.05% | 52 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 6.89% | 21 |
| Suspension | 5.9% | 18 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 1.31% | 4 |
How the Mazda 2 Sport compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Mazda 2 Sport sits 13th of 651 models in this data , and 2nd of the 10 Mazda models covered . Mazda as a whole averaged 82.19%, so this model runs 11.6 points ahead of its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Mazda 2 Sport
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Mazda 2 Sport came to its 2025 test at 25,208 miles and 4.7 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 Mazda 2 Sport
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 Mazda models
- Mazda MX-5 78.56% pass rate · 89,385 tests
- Mazda CX-5 83.22% pass rate · 69,486 tests
- Mazda CX-3 86.56% pass rate · 24,807 tests
- Mazda CX-30 93.71% pass rate · 18,666 tests
- Mazda Bongo 60.91% pass rate · 9,488 tests
- Mazda 2 GT 94.27% pass rate · 5,377 tests
Models with a similar pass rate
- Ford Puma 93.18% pass rate
- Volkswagen T-ROC 92.71% pass rate
- Lexus NX 93.11% pass rate
- Jaguar I-Pace 92.8% pass rate
- Lexus RX 93.47% pass rate
- Fiat 500 Dolcevita 92.78% 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.