MOT pass rate · 2025 data
MINI Roadster MOT pass rate
The MINI Roadster passed 84.47% of its 2,685 initial MOT tests in 2025 — above the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 7.2 percentage points better than average.
How the MINI Roadster 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 MINI Roadster grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 6–10 years | 1,071 | 85.53% |
| 11 years and over | 1,614 | 83.77% |
Why the MINI Roadster fails its MOT
Across every MINI Roadster that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was tyres, accounting for 23.17% 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 | 23.17% | 177 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 22.25% | 170 |
| Suspension | 16.1% | 123 |
| Brakes | 14.92% | 114 |
| Visibility | 10.99% | 84 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 6.02% | 46 |
How the MINI Roadster compares
Ranked on pass rate, the MINI Roadster sits 239th of 651 models in this data , and 5th of the 9 MINI models covered . MINI as a whole averaged 82.15%, so this model runs 2.3 points ahead of its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used MINI Roadster
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average MINI Roadster came to its 2025 test at 56,064 miles and 10.8 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 MINI Roadster
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 MINI models
- MINI Cooper 87.98% pass rate · 353,531 tests
- MINI Mini 70% pass rate · 246,080 tests
- MINI Countryman 88.41% pass rate · 98,941 tests
- MINI ONE 84.28% pass rate · 51,817 tests
- MINI Clubman 82.97% pass rate · 25,842 tests
- MINI John 88.76% pass rate · 21,997 tests
Models with a similar pass rate
- Land Rover Range 83.61% pass rate
- Ford Kuga 83.58% pass rate
- Volkswagen Tiguan 83.85% pass rate
- Tesla Model 85.2% pass rate
- Audi Q3 84.17% pass rate
- Volkswagen UP 84.36% 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.