MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Toyota Celica MOT pass rate
The Toyota Celica passed 67% of its 8,420 initial MOT tests in 2025 — below the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 10.3 percentage points worse than average.
How the Toyota Celica 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 Toyota Celica grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3–5 years | 3 | 100% |
| 6–10 years | 16 | 87.5% |
| 11 years and over | 8,401 | 66.94% |
The Toyota Celica drops 33.1 percentage points between its early years and the 11-plus bracket, which is a steep decline. On an older example, the MOT history is worth reading closely before you buy.
Why the Toyota Celica fails its MOT
Across every Toyota Celica that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment, accounting for 20.69% 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 | 20.69% | 1,962 |
| Brakes | 20.54% | 1,948 |
| Suspension | 19.48% | 1,847 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 14.55% | 1,380 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 9.54% | 905 |
| Tyres | 5.87% | 557 |
How the Toyota Celica compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Toyota Celica sits 564th of 651 models in this data , and 32nd of the 33 Toyota models covered . Toyota as a whole averaged 81.63%, so this model runs 14.6 points behind its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Toyota Celica
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Toyota Celica came to its 2025 test at 117,465 miles and 23.3 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 Toyota Celica
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 Toyota models
- Toyota Yaris 80.34% pass rate · 477,855 tests
- Toyota Aygo 81.42% pass rate · 268,648 tests
- Toyota Prius 86.68% pass rate · 162,267 tests
- Toyota Auris 80.35% pass rate · 148,609 tests
- Toyota Corolla 84.79% pass rate · 126,391 tests
- Toyota RAV4 85.16% pass rate · 104,842 tests
Models with a similar pass rate
- Vauxhall Meriva 67.78% pass rate
- Ford Fusion 67.91% pass rate
- Vauxhall Agila 66.97% pass rate
- Renault Twingo 66.24% pass rate
- Alfa Romeo Mito 66.26% pass rate
- Suzuki Splash 67.81% 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.