Alfa Romeo MiTo MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on an Alfa Romeo MiTo in Great Britain in 2025 — 17,227 tests. Figures cover every MiTo first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the MiTo ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
60.7%
11.6 points below the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
17,227
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
10.2%
of MiTo first tests; national 7.3%
Typical mileage at 10 years
58,750
middle half: 46,250–76,250 miles (2,500-mile-band midpoints)

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

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 17,484 Alfa Romeo MiTo cars that were taxed or on SORN: 15,644 taxed and 1,840 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 MiTo vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
15,644
89.5% of the 17,484 MiTo cars taxed or on SORN; 69 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
1,840
declared off the road by their keepers — 10.5% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed MiTo cars peaked at 23,665 at the end of 2017 and has since fallen by 8,021 (33.9%) to 15,644 at the end of 2025. Cars on SORN went from 100 at the end of 2014 to 1,840 at the end of 2025, up 1740.0%. 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 MiTo 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 MiTo cars, year 2014: 20kTaxed MiTo cars, year 2015: 22kTaxed MiTo cars, year 2016: 23kTaxed MiTo cars, year 2017: 24kTaxed MiTo cars, year 2018: 23kTaxed MiTo cars, year 2019: 23kTaxed MiTo cars, year 2020: 22kTaxed MiTo cars, year 2021: 22kTaxed MiTo cars, year 2022: 21kTaxed MiTo cars, year 2023: 19kTaxed MiTo cars, year 2024: 18kTaxed MiTo cars, year 2025: 16k16k
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YearTaxed MiTo cars
201420,452
201521,826
201623,135
201723,665
201823,335
201922,953
202022,193
202121,592
202220,636
202319,401
202417,553
202515,644

MiTo 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.

05001k2k2k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)MiTo cars on SORN, year 2014: 100MiTo cars on SORN, year 2015: 169MiTo cars on SORN, year 2016: 221MiTo cars on SORN, year 2017: 294MiTo cars on SORN, year 2018: 411MiTo cars on SORN, year 2019: 540MiTo cars on SORN, year 2020: 708MiTo cars on SORN, year 2021: 864MiTo cars on SORN, year 2022: 998MiTo cars on SORN, year 2023: 1kMiTo cars on SORN, year 2024: 2kMiTo cars on SORN, year 2025: 2k2k
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YearMiTo cars on SORN
2014100
2015169
2016221
2017294
2018411
2019540
2020708
2021864
2022998
20231,222
20241,587
20251,840

Which model years survive

Taxed MiTo cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 15,644 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 MiTo cars
20183772.4%
20176834.4%
20161,3778.8%
20151,4409.2%
20141,4899.5%
20131,4119.0%
20121,84911.8%
20112,16113.8%
20102,32714.9%
20092,48115.9%
All other build years (two years, each under 1%)490.3%

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 MITO 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 MiTo ages

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

Alfa Romeo MiToAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Alfa Romeo MiTo, vehicle age 8: 68.8%Alfa Romeo MiTo, vehicle age 9: 67%Alfa Romeo MiTo, vehicle age 10: 61.5%Alfa Romeo MiTo, vehicle age 11: 62.2%Alfa Romeo MiTo, vehicle age 12: 61%Alfa Romeo MiTo, vehicle age 13: 62.4%Alfa Romeo MiTo, vehicle age 14: 58.5%Alfa Romeo MiTo, vehicle age 15: 58.9%Alfa Romeo MiTo, vehicle age 16: 55.1%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%All cars 57.6%Alfa Romeo MiTo 55.1%
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Age (years)MiTo testsMiTo pass rateAll cars
873068.8%78.2%
91,44067.0%74.9%
101,51361.5%71.9%
111,59062.2%68.6%
121,52961.0%65.8%
132,00262.4%63.5%
142,42458.5%61.2%
152,65958.9%59.3%
162,88855.1%58.3%

Better or worse than the average car?

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

MiTo behind
-12-6+0+6+12Age 8: -9.4 points vs the average carAge 9: -7.9 points vs the average car9Age 10: -10.4 points vs the average carAge 11: -6.4 points vs the average car11Age 12: -4.8 points vs the average carAge 13: -1.1 points vs the average car13Age 14: -2.7 points vs the average carAge 15: -0.4 points vs the average car15Age 16: -3.2 points vs the average carVehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
8-9.4
9-7.9
10-10.4
11-6.4
12-4.8
13-1.1
14-2.7
15-0.4
16-3.2

The MiTo fleet on the road, by age

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

07501k2k3kAge 8: 7308Age 9: 1kAge 10: 1k10Age 11: 1kAge 12: 1k12Age 13: 2kAge 14: 2k14Age 15: 2kAge 16: 2k16Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
8730
91,440
101,513
111,590
121,529
132,002
142,424
152,659
162,888

What a MiTo fails on

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

Suspension21.0%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment19.1%
Brakes19.1%
Tyres10.7%
Noise, emissions and leaks8.0%
Body, chassis, structure7.2%
Visibility6.9%
Steering6.0%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (97.8% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

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

Suspension: 30.7% of advisories30.7%Brakes: 24.5% of advisories24.5%Tyres: 23.4% of advisories23.4%Noise, emissions and leaks: 6.5% of advisoriesBody, chassis, structure: 5.9% of advisoriesNon-component advisories: 3.2% of advisories
SuspensionBrakesTyresNoise, emissions and leaksBody, chassis, structureNon-component advisories
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CategoryShare of advisories
Suspension30.7%
Brakes24.5%
Tyres23.4%
Noise, emissions and leaks6.5%
Body, chassis, structure5.9%
Non-component advisories3.2%

Petrol, diesel or hybrid MiTo?

First-time pass rate for the two most-tested MiTo 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: 61.1% of 14,901 tests61.1%Petrol14,901 testsDiesel: 58.3% of 2,326 tests58.3%Diesel2,326 tests
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FuelTestsPass rate
Petrol14,90161.1%
Diesel2,32658.3%

What mileage is normal for a MiTo?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) MiTo; 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 MiTo (median)
0k25k50k75k100k125k810121416Vehicle age (years)Age 8: typical 48,750 miles (middle half 36,250–63,750)Age 9: typical 53,750 miles (middle half 41,250–71,250)Age 10: typical 58,750 miles (middle half 46,250–76,250)Age 11: typical 68,750 miles (middle half 53,750–86,250)Age 12: typical 73,750 miles (middle half 58,750–91,250)Age 13: typical 83,750 miles (middle half 66,250–98,750)Age 14: typical 86,250 miles (middle half 68,750–106,250)Age 15: typical 91,250 miles (middle half 73,750–111,250)Age 16: typical 96,250 miles (middle half 76,250–116,250)96k mi

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

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
836,25048,75063,750
941,25053,75071,250
1046,25058,75076,250
1153,75068,75086,250
1258,75073,75091,250
1366,25083,75098,750
1468,75086,250106,250
1573,75091,250111,250
1676,25096,250116,250

What fails at each age

The MiTo'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.

SuspensionBrakesSteeringTyresVisibilityLamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentBody, chassis, structureEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
6-9 yrsSuspension21.4%
6-9 yrsBrakes14.9%
6-9 yrsSteering14.6%
6-9 yrsTyres14.4%
6-9 yrsVisibility9.9%
6-9 yrsEverything else24.8%
10-13 yrsSuspension22.8%
10-13 yrsBrakes18.0%
10-13 yrsTyres13.5%
10-13 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment12.7%
10-13 yrsSteering9.9%
10-13 yrsEverything else23.1%
14+ yrsBrakes23.5%
14+ yrsSuspension23.3%
14+ yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment17.3%
14+ yrsTyres9.4%
14+ yrsBody, chassis, structure8.5%
14+ yrsEverything else18.0%

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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.