MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Talbot Express MOT pass rate
The Talbot Express passed 59.78% of its 3,657 initial MOT tests in 2025 — below the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 17.5 percentage points worse than average.
How the Talbot Express 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 Talbot Express grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 11 years and over | 3,657 | 59.78% |
Why the Talbot Express fails its MOT
Across every Talbot Express that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment, accounting for 34.36% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 34.36% | 3,273 |
| Brakes | 19.65% | 1,872 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 17.57% | 1,674 |
| Suspension | 11.14% | 1,061 |
| Visibility | 6.46% | 615 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 3.25% | 310 |
How the Talbot Express compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Talbot Express sits 637th of 651 models in this data . Talbot as a whole averaged 59.78%, so this model runs level with its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Talbot Express
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Talbot Express came to its 2025 test at 83,167 miles and 33.6 years old. Most examples tested were petrol, though 48.84% were diesel.
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 Talbot Express
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
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- Citroen C2 60.54% 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.