Abarth 595 MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on an Abarth 595 in Great Britain in 2025 — 21,961 tests. Figures cover every 595 first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the 595 ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
79.9%
7.6 points above the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
21,961
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
6.4%
of 595 first tests; national 7.3%
Typical mileage at 10 years
53,750
middle half: 38,750–68,750 miles (2,500-mile-band midpoints)

How many Abarth 595 cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 21,479 Abarth 595 cars that were taxed or on SORN: 20,790 taxed and 689 on SORN (Statutory Off Road Notification — kept, but declared off the road by the keeper). The MOT figures above count tests; these count cars, across the whole United Kingdom, cars only. Abarth 595 vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
20,790
96.8% of the 21,479 595 cars taxed or on SORN; 34 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
689
declared off the road by their keepers — 3.2% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed 595 cars peaked at 21,026 at the end of 2022 and has since fallen by 236 (1.1%) to 20,790 at the end of 2025. Cars on SORN went from 25 at the end of 2014 to 689 at the end of 2025, up 2656.0%. A car leaves the taxed count when it is scrapped, exported or declared off the road; the year-end counts do not say which.

Taxed 595 cars, year by year

Cars of this model taxed and on the road at the end of each year, 2014–2025.

05k10k15k20k25k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Taxed 595 cars, year 2014: 1kTaxed 595 cars, year 2015: 3kTaxed 595 cars, year 2016: 6kTaxed 595 cars, year 2017: 10kTaxed 595 cars, year 2018: 14kTaxed 595 cars, year 2019: 16kTaxed 595 cars, year 2020: 18kTaxed 595 cars, year 2021: 20kTaxed 595 cars, year 2022: 21kTaxed 595 cars, year 2023: 21kTaxed 595 cars, year 2024: 21kTaxed 595 cars, year 2025: 21k21k
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YearTaxed 595 cars
20141,313
20153,027
20166,441
20179,958
201813,725
201916,300
202018,129
202119,756
202221,026
202320,971
202420,941
202520,790

595 cars on SORN, year by year

Cars of this model declared off the road at the end of each year, 2014–2025. Its own scale — SORN counts are a fraction of the taxed count.

02004006008002014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)595 cars on SORN, year 2014: 25595 cars on SORN, year 2015: 95595 cars on SORN, year 2016: 90595 cars on SORN, year 2017: 91595 cars on SORN, year 2018: 141595 cars on SORN, year 2019: 210595 cars on SORN, year 2020: 327595 cars on SORN, year 2021: 287595 cars on SORN, year 2022: 381595 cars on SORN, year 2023: 460595 cars on SORN, year 2024: 571595 cars on SORN, year 2025: 689689
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Year595 cars on SORN
201425
201595
201690
201791
2018141
2019210
2020327
2021287
2022381
2023460
2024571
2025689

Which model years survive

Taxed 595 cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 20,790 taxed in all. Every build year holding at least 1% has its own row; the rest share one. A build year's count depends on how many were sold that year as well as how many have lasted.

Year of manufacture Taxed, end of 2025Share of taxed 595 cars
20232491.2%
20221,2986.2%
20212,10510.1%
20202,0209.7%
20192,63812.7%
20183,65717.6%
20173,14915.1%
20162,94814.2%
20151,4877.2%
20144902.4%
20134352.1%
All other build years (three years, each under 1%)3141.5%

Population source: Department for Transport / DVLA vehicle licensing statistics, table VEH0124, updated 15 July 2026; counts of the cars on DVLA's register that were taxed or on SORN at the end of each year shown, United Kingdom, cars only, excluding cars recorded with no model name. SortedCars groups DVLA's model names 595, F595 under this model. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. SortedCars is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, DVLA or the Department for Transport.

How the 595 ages

First-time pass rate by vehicle age, 595 vs all cars, 2025.

Abarth 595All cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Abarth 595, vehicle age 3: 91%Abarth 595, vehicle age 4: 86%Abarth 595, vehicle age 5: 84.2%Abarth 595, vehicle age 6: 82.5%Abarth 595, vehicle age 7: 79.9%Abarth 595, vehicle age 8: 77.8%Abarth 595, vehicle age 9: 75.7%Abarth 595, vehicle age 10: 72.2%Abarth 595, vehicle age 11: 71.7%All cars, vehicle age 3: 88.5%All cars, vehicle age 4: 87.2%All cars, vehicle age 5: 86%All cars, vehicle age 6: 83.5%All cars, vehicle age 7: 80.9%All cars, vehicle age 8: 78.2%All cars, vehicle age 9: 74.9%All cars, vehicle age 10: 71.9%All cars, vehicle age 11: 68.6%All cars, vehicle age 12: 65.8%All cars, vehicle age 13: 63.5%All cars, vehicle age 14: 61.2%All cars, vehicle age 15: 59.3%All cars, vehicle age 16: 58.3%All cars, vehicle age 17: 57.2%All cars, vehicle age 18: 57.4%All cars, vehicle age 19: 57%All cars, vehicle age 20: 57.6%Abarth 595 71.7%All cars 57.6%
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Age (years)595 tests595 pass rateAll cars
31,40291.0%88.5%
42,24086.0%87.2%
52,15184.2%86.0%
62,83082.5%83.5%
73,96579.9%80.9%
83,40277.8%78.2%
93,16575.7%74.9%
101,59872.2%71.9%
1153771.7%68.6%

Better or worse than the average car?

The 595's pass rate minus the all-cars pass rate at each age, in percentage points. Bars above zero: the 595 beats the average car of that age. Below zero: it trails.

595 ahead595 behind
-4-2+0+2+4Age 3: +2.5 points vs the average car3Age 4: -1.2 points vs the average carAge 5: -1.8 points vs the average car5Age 6: -1.0 points vs the average carAge 7: -1.0 points vs the average car7Age 8: -0.4 points vs the average carAge 9: +0.8 points vs the average car9Age 10: +0.3 points vs the average carAge 11: +3.1 points vs the average car11Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
3+2.5
4-1.2
5-1.8
6-1.0
7-1.0
8-0.4
9+0.8
10+0.3
11+3.1

The 595 fleet on the road, by age

How many took a first MOT in 2025 at each age — the shape of the 595 fleet still in use.

01k2k3k4kAge 3: 1k3Age 4: 2kAge 5: 2k5Age 6: 2kAge 7: 3k7Age 8: 3kAge 9: 3k9Age 10: 1kAge 11: 53711Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
31,402
42,240
52,151
62,830
73,965
83,402
93,165
101,598
11537

What a 595 fails on

Where the failure items land when a 595 fails or needs a fix at test, 2025. Use it as a pre-purchase checklist: these are the areas to look at first.

Suspension25.2%
Tyres20.7%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment18.8%
Brakes13.6%
Visibility8.7%
Noise, emissions and leaks7.4%
Body, chassis, structure2.4%
Identification of the vehicle1.4%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (98.2% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

Where testers most often write "keep an eye on this" for a 595, 2025 — the faults in the post.

Brakes: 31.6% of advisories31.6%Tyres: 30.6% of advisories30.6%Suspension: 28.5% of advisories28.5%Non-component advisories: 3.1% of advisoriesBody, chassis, structure: 2.4% of advisoriesRoad Wheels: 1.0% of advisories
BrakesTyresSuspensionNon-component advisoriesBody, chassis, structureRoad Wheels
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CategoryShare of advisories
Brakes31.6%
Tyres30.6%
Suspension28.5%
Non-component advisories3.1%
Body, chassis, structure2.4%
Road Wheels1.0%

What mileage is normal for a 595?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) 595; the shaded band holds the middle half. A car far outside the band, in either direction, is worth questions the recorded history can answer.

Typical 595 (median)
0k25k50k75k357911Vehicle age (years)Age 3: typical 16,250 miles (middle half 11,250–21,250)Age 4: typical 21,250 miles (middle half 13,750–28,750)Age 5: typical 23,750 miles (middle half 16,250–33,750)Age 6: typical 31,250 miles (middle half 21,250–41,250)Age 7: typical 38,750 miles (middle half 28,750–48,750)Age 8: typical 46,250 miles (middle half 33,750–58,750)Age 9: typical 51,250 miles (middle half 36,250–63,750)Age 10: typical 53,750 miles (middle half 38,750–68,750)Age 11: typical 53,750 miles (middle half 38,750–71,250)53k mi

Mileage values are midpoints of 2,500-mile bands.

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
311,25016,25021,250
413,75021,25028,750
516,25023,75033,750
621,25031,25041,250
728,75038,75048,750
833,75046,25058,750
936,25051,25063,750
1038,75053,75068,750
1138,75053,75071,250

What fails at each age

The 595's failure mix by age band, 2025 — each band's top categories at their true share of that band's failure items; the pale remainder is everything else. How the mix shifts with age is the point of the chart.

TyresBrakesLamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSuspensionVisibilityNoise, emissions and leaksEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
3-5 yrsTyres38.9%
3-5 yrsBrakes19.6%
3-5 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment12.1%
3-5 yrsSuspension10.5%
3-5 yrsVisibility8.0%
3-5 yrsEverything else10.9%
6-9 yrsSuspension31.5%
6-9 yrsTyres21.8%
6-9 yrsBrakes15.3%
6-9 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment12.7%
6-9 yrsNoise, emissions and leaks6.9%
6-9 yrsEverything else11.8%
10-13 yrsSuspension30.5%
10-13 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment18.9%
10-13 yrsTyres15.4%
10-13 yrsBrakes12.0%
10-13 yrsNoise, emissions and leaks10.7%
10-13 yrsEverything else12.5%
How these figures are computed. Every number on this page is calculated by SortedCars from the DVSA anonymised MOT results dataset (every MOT test in Great Britain — 2025 for single-year figures; trend figures state their span, currently 2023–2025). Where a figure comes from a sample or uses banded values (mileage is banded to 2,500 miles), the page says so beside the figure. Test class 4 only, first tests only — retests are excluded. Class 4 is the car MOT class and also covers car-derived vans, pickups and motorhomes tested to the same standard; where this page says "cars" it means class 4. Pass rate = passes ÷ (passes + failures + pass-after-rectification): a vehicle that failed and was fixed during the visit counts as a fail. Pass rates describe fleets, not individual machines: they reflect how cars were driven, maintained and used as well as how they were built, and beyond recorded mileage none of that is in the data. A well-kept example of a model with a weak average can still pass; a neglected example of a strong one can still fail. No figure is shown for any group with fewer than 500 tests. Alias spellings of a make in the DVSA file are counted under one make name, and all trims and variants of a model are grouped under one model name, using SortedCars' grouping tables. The taxed and SORN counts on this page are the one exception: they are not computed from MOT records but taken from the Department for Transport's vehicle licensing statistics (DfT/DVLA table VEH0124, updated 15 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0), which count the cars on DVLA's register that were taxed or on SORN at the end of each year shown, UK-wide, cars only. They describe a model as a whole, grouped under SortedCars' model names, and say nothing about any one car. “Dangerous” is DVSA's statutory defect category (in force since May 2018): a defect posing an immediate risk to road safety — driving the vehicle before repair is an offence. What these figures are for. These statistics are general information about groups of vehicles. They are not advice, a valuation or a recommendation to buy, avoid or price any particular vehicle, and no decision about one car should rest on them alone — check the car itself and its own records. We take care over the calculations, but we cannot guarantee they are complete, current or free of error, and we accept no liability for loss arising from reliance on them. This does not limit any liability that cannot lawfully be limited — see our Terms & Conditions. If you believe any figure on this page is inaccurate, contact us. SortedCars is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the DVSA or DVLA. DVSA publishes the raw test records; the statistics on this page are SortedCars' own calculations from them. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.