MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Rover 25 MOT pass rate
The Rover 25 passed 68.81% of its 2,453 initial MOT tests in 2025 — below the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 8.5 percentage points worse than average.
How the Rover 25 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 Rover 25 grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 11 years and over | 2,453 | 68.81% |
Why the Rover 25 fails its MOT
Across every Rover 25 that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was body, chassis, structure, accounting for 20.73% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Body, chassis, structure | 20.73% | 459 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 19.83% | 439 |
| Brakes | 17.75% | 393 |
| Suspension | 13.05% | 289 |
| Visibility | 7.68% | 170 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 7.41% | 164 |
How the Rover 25 compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Rover 25 sits 543rd of 651 models in this data , and 2nd of the 4 Rover models covered . Rover as a whole averaged 70.81%, so this model runs 2 points behind its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Rover 25
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Rover 25 came to its 2025 test at 68,406 miles and 22.5 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 Rover 25
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 Rover models
- Rover Mini 75.7% pass rate · 10,913 tests
- Rover 75 64.52% pass rate · 6,210 tests
- Rover 45 64.67% pass rate · 1,520 tests
Models with a similar pass rate
- MINI Mini 70% pass rate
- Citroen Berlingo 69.15% pass rate
- Vauxhall Zafira 69.21% pass rate
- Citroen C4 68.83% pass rate
- Peugeot 308 69.7% pass rate
- Peugeot 107 69.3% 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.