Alfa Romeo Giulia MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on an Alfa Romeo Giulia in Great Britain in 2025 — 7,506 tests. Figures cover every Giulia first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the Giulia ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
85.7%
13.4 points above the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
7,506
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
6.6%
of Giulia first tests; national 7.3%

How many Alfa Romeo Giulia cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 8,402 Alfa Romeo Giulia cars that were taxed or on SORN: 8,036 taxed and 366 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. Alfa Romeo Giulia vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
8,036
95.6% of the 8,402 Giulia cars taxed or on SORN; 30 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
366
declared off the road by their keepers — 4.4% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed Giulia cars is still rising: 8,036 at the end of 2025, up 114 (1.4%) on the end of 2024, and the highest in the years shown. Cars on SORN went from 69 at the end of 2014 to 366 at the end of 2025, up 430.4%. 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 Giulia cars, year by year

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

02k4k6k8k10k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Taxed Giulia cars, year 2014: 150Taxed Giulia cars, year 2015: 161Taxed Giulia cars, year 2016: 330Taxed Giulia cars, year 2017: 2kTaxed Giulia cars, year 2018: 4kTaxed Giulia cars, year 2019: 5kTaxed Giulia cars, year 2020: 6kTaxed Giulia cars, year 2021: 7kTaxed Giulia cars, year 2022: 8kTaxed Giulia cars, year 2023: 8kTaxed Giulia cars, year 2024: 8kTaxed Giulia cars, year 2025: 8k8k
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YearTaxed Giulia cars
2014150
2015161
2016330
20172,402
20184,006
20195,252
20205,884
20216,788
20227,561
20237,654
20247,922
20258,036

Giulia 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.

01002003004002014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Giulia cars on SORN, year 2014: 69Giulia cars on SORN, year 2015: 74Giulia cars on SORN, year 2016: 87Giulia cars on SORN, year 2017: 178Giulia cars on SORN, year 2018: 208Giulia cars on SORN, year 2019: 196Giulia cars on SORN, year 2020: 240Giulia cars on SORN, year 2021: 207Giulia cars on SORN, year 2022: 244Giulia cars on SORN, year 2023: 271Giulia cars on SORN, year 2024: 309Giulia cars on SORN, year 2025: 366366
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YearGiulia cars on SORN
201469
201574
201687
2017178
2018208
2019196
2020240
2021207
2022244
2023271
2024309
2025366

Which model years survive

Taxed Giulia cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 8,036 taxed in all. Every build year holding at least 1% has its own row; the rest share one. 77 taxed Giulia cars have no recorded year of manufacture and are not in the table, so the rows add up to 7,959. 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 Giulia cars
20252433.0%
20242753.4%
20232723.4%
20227589.4%
20216948.6%
20207649.5%
20191,33016.6%
20181,45418.1%
20171,84222.9%
20161431.8%
All other build years (22 years, each under 1%)1842.3%

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 name GIULIA 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 Giulia ages

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

Alfa Romeo GiuliaAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Alfa Romeo Giulia, vehicle age 3: 85.5%Alfa Romeo Giulia, vehicle age 4: 86.2%Alfa Romeo Giulia, vehicle age 5: 88.3%Alfa Romeo Giulia, vehicle age 6: 87%Alfa Romeo Giulia, vehicle age 7: 85.7%Alfa Romeo Giulia, vehicle age 8: 83.6%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%Alfa Romeo Giulia 83.6%All cars 57.6%
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Age (years)Giulia testsGiulia pass rateAll cars
383785.5%88.5%
472686.2%87.2%
581488.3%86.0%
61,46487.0%83.5%
71,54985.7%80.9%
81,91683.6%78.2%

Better or worse than the average car?

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

Giulia aheadGiulia behind
-6-3+0+3+6Age 3: -3.0 points vs the average car3Age 4: -1.0 points vs the average carAge 5: +2.3 points vs the average car5Age 6: +3.5 points vs the average carAge 7: +4.8 points vs the average car7Age 8: +5.4 points vs the average carVehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
3-3.0
4-1.0
5+2.3
6+3.5
7+4.8
8+5.4

The Giulia fleet on the road, by age

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

05001k1k2kAge 3: 8373Age 4: 726Age 5: 8145Age 6: 1kAge 7: 1k7Age 8: 1k8Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
3837
4726
5814
61,464
71,549
81,916

What a Giulia fails on

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

Tyres37.7%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment25.9%
Brakes16.3%
Suspension5.2%
Noise, emissions and leaks4.7%
Visibility4.5%
Identification of the vehicle2.2%
Road Wheels1.6%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (98.0% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

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

Tyres: 45.9% of advisories45.9%Brakes: 38.1% of advisories38.1%Suspension: 7.7% of advisories7.7%Non-component advisories: 4.4% of advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaks: 1.4% of advisoriesIdentification of the vehicle: 0.8% of advisories
TyresBrakesSuspensionNon-component advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaksIdentification of the vehicle
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CategoryShare of advisories
Tyres45.9%
Brakes38.1%
Suspension7.7%
Non-component advisories4.4%
Noise, emissions and leaks1.4%
Identification of the vehicle0.8%

Petrol, diesel or hybrid Giulia?

First-time pass rate for the two most-tested Giulia fuel types, 2025, against the all-cars average. Fleet ages differ by fuel — newer fleets help the electrified bars.

50%60%70%80%90%100%all cars 72.3%Petrol: 86.7% of 5,864 tests86.7%Petrol5,864 testsDiesel: 82.1% of 1,642 tests82.1%Diesel1,642 tests
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FuelTestsPass rate
Petrol5,86486.7%
Diesel1,64282.1%

What mileage is normal for a Giulia?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) Giulia; 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 Giulia (median)
0k25k50k75k100k3578Vehicle age (years)Age 3: typical 23,750 miles (middle half 13,750–33,750)Age 4: typical 28,750 miles (middle half 21,250–38,750)Age 5: typical 36,250 miles (middle half 26,250–46,250)Age 6: typical 43,750 miles (middle half 33,750–53,750)Age 7: typical 56,250 miles (middle half 43,750–71,250)Age 8: typical 61,250 miles (middle half 46,250–78,750)61k mi

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

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
313,75023,75033,750
421,25028,75038,750
526,25036,25046,250
633,75043,75053,750
743,75056,25071,250
846,25061,25078,750

What fails at each age

The Giulia'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.

TyresLamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentBrakesSuspensionVisibilityNoise, emissions and leaksEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
3-5 yrsTyres44.1%
3-5 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment20.7%
3-5 yrsBrakes18.5%
3-5 yrsSuspension4.2%
3-5 yrsVisibility3.9%
3-5 yrsEverything else8.6%
6-9 yrsTyres41.0%
6-9 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment21.7%
6-9 yrsBrakes17.1%
6-9 yrsSuspension6.3%
6-9 yrsNoise, emissions and leaks5.3%
6-9 yrsEverything else8.6%

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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.