MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Toyota Starlet MOT pass rate
The Toyota Starlet passed 71.9% of its 2,893 initial MOT tests in 2025 — below the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 5.4 percentage points worse than average.
How the Toyota Starlet 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 Starlet grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3–5 years | 5 | 100% |
| 6–10 years | 36 | 86.11% |
| 11 years and over | 2,852 | 71.67% |
The Toyota Starlet drops 28.3 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 Starlet fails its MOT
Across every Toyota Starlet that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was brakes, accounting for 18.57% 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 | 18.57% | 465 |
| Suspension | 18.53% | 464 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 17.21% | 431 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 14.58% | 365 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 13.22% | 331 |
| Tyres | 8.11% | 203 |
How the Toyota Starlet compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Toyota Starlet sits 489th of 651 models in this data , and 28th of the 33 Toyota models covered . Toyota as a whole averaged 81.63%, so this model runs 9.7 points behind its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Toyota Starlet
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Toyota Starlet came to its 2025 test at 93,671 miles and 26.9 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 Starlet
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
- Ford Fiesta 72.78% pass rate
- Vauxhall Corsa 71.57% pass rate
- Vauxhall Astra 72.34% pass rate
- Volkswagen Transporter 72.88% pass rate
- Fiat 500 70.89% pass rate
- Nissan Micra 71.53% 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.