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Volkswagen MOT pass rates by model

Across 3,091,896 MOT tests on 25 Volkswagen models in 2023, 76.3% passed, about the same as the 76.5% average for all cars. Comparing models at the same ages, the up! does best at 87.4%.

Volkswagen models

Overall pass rate across all ages, and like-for-like at ages 3 to 10, where the model has enough tests at each age (n/a where it does not). The line marks the all-car average.

ModelTestsPass rateAges
3 to 10
Golf931,453
77.9%
86.9%
Polo628,160
73.1%
80.7%
Transporter315,340
72.8%
80.4%
Tiguan221,436
84.6%
85.1%
Passat207,331
75.0%
82.4%
Caddy148,895
74.4%
78.7%
up!120,333
86.3%
87.4%
Touran78,967
71.9%
83.0%
Crafter60,549
72.3%
72.4%
T-Roc55,246
93.1%
n/a
Scirocco49,054
74.3%
n/a
Beetle48,614
64.1%
n/a
Sharan37,805
79.0%
83.4%
Touareg37,761
79.3%
83.2%
Fox28,542
61.1%
n/a
Amarok22,708
82.0%
81.6%
Caravelle18,913
69.2%
79.4%
Jetta15,446
69.7%
n/a
CC14,508
77.2%
n/a
Eos13,851
69.1%
n/a
California9,055
84.9%
84.9%
LT7,691
59.9%
n/a
Lupo6,942
66.3%
n/a
Bora6,736
65.4%
n/a
Arteon6,560
87.9%
n/a

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Questions

What is the MOT pass rate for Volkswagen cars?
In 2023, 76.3% of 3,091,896 initial MOT tests on the 25 Volkswagen models we cover ended in a pass, against 76.5% for all cars and light vans.
Which Volkswagen model has the most MOT tests?
The Volkswagen Golf, with 931,453 tests in 2023 and a pass rate of 77.9%.
Which Volkswagen model has the best MOT pass rate?
Comparing models at ages 3 to 10 with the same age mix, the Volkswagen up! had the highest pass rate of the 12 Volkswagen models with enough tests, at 87.4%.

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How these figures are made. We counted every initial MOT test (not retests) of cars and light vans in Great Britain in 2023 from the DVSA anonymised MOT dataset, 33,842,940 tests in all. Pass rate is the share of initial tests that ended in a pass, counting faults fixed during the test. Age is whole years from first registration to the test, so a car having its first MOT a few weeks early counts as 2.

Like-for-like pass rates average each model's pass rate at ages 3 to 10 with the same age mix for every model, so a model is not flattered by a young fleet or penalised by an old one. Models are grouped by the first word of the DVSA model name, and names that cover several models are left out.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. RegTail's analysis of the DVSA anonymised MOT dataset, 2023 tests.