MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Morris Minor MOT pass rate
The Morris Minor passed 82.23% of its 1,812 initial MOT tests in 2025 — above the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 4.9 percentage points better than average.
How the Morris Minor 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 Morris Minor grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 6–10 years | 4 | 100% |
| 11 years and over | 1,174 | 80.58% |
Why the Morris Minor fails its MOT
Across every Morris Minor that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was brakes, accounting for 40.14% 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 | 40.14% | 499 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 23.65% | 294 |
| Suspension | 11.5% | 143 |
| Steering | 8.05% | 100 |
| Visibility | 7.08% | 88 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 5.15% | 64 |
How the Morris Minor compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Morris Minor sits 277th of 651 models in this data . Morris as a whole averaged 82.23%, so this model runs level with its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Morris Minor
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Morris Minor came to its 2025 test at 45,724 miles and 55.5 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 Morris Minor
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
Models with a similar pass rate
- Toyota Aygo 81.42% pass rate
- Land Rover Discovery 81.32% pass rate
- BMW 118 83.02% pass rate
- Audi A6 83.04% pass rate
- Volvo XC60 82.51% pass rate
- BMW X5 83.17% 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.