Aston Martin Vantage MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on an Aston Martin Vantage in Great Britain in 2025 — 8,366 tests. Figures cover every Vantage first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the Vantage ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
92.9%
20.6 points above the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
8,366
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
1.0%
of Vantage first tests; national 7.3%

How many Aston Martin Vantage cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 9,772 Aston Martin Vantage cars that were taxed or on SORN: 6,892 taxed and 2,880 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. Aston Martin Vantage vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
6,892
70.5% of the 9,772 Vantage cars taxed or on SORN; 38 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
2,880
declared off the road by their keepers — 29.5% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed Vantage cars is still rising: 6,892 at the end of 2025, up 121 (1.8%) on the end of 2024, and the highest in the years shown. Cars on SORN went from 551 at the end of 2014 to 2,880 at the end of 2025, up 422.7%. 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 Vantage cars, year by year

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

02k4k6k8k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Taxed Vantage cars, year 2014: 5kTaxed Vantage cars, year 2015: 6kTaxed Vantage cars, year 2016: 6kTaxed Vantage cars, year 2017: 6kTaxed Vantage cars, year 2018: 6kTaxed Vantage cars, year 2019: 7kTaxed Vantage cars, year 2020: 6kTaxed Vantage cars, year 2021: 7kTaxed Vantage cars, year 2022: 7kTaxed Vantage cars, year 2023: 7kTaxed Vantage cars, year 2024: 7kTaxed Vantage cars, year 2025: 7k7k
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YearTaxed Vantage cars
20145,348
20155,632
20165,846
20175,962
20186,126
20196,676
20206,491
20216,708
20226,834
20236,738
20246,771
20256,892

Vantage 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.

01k2k3k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Vantage cars on SORN, year 2014: 551Vantage cars on SORN, year 2015: 621Vantage cars on SORN, year 2016: 740Vantage cars on SORN, year 2017: 1kVantage cars on SORN, year 2018: 1kVantage cars on SORN, year 2019: 1kVantage cars on SORN, year 2020: 2kVantage cars on SORN, year 2021: 2kVantage cars on SORN, year 2022: 2kVantage cars on SORN, year 2023: 2kVantage cars on SORN, year 2024: 3kVantage cars on SORN, year 2025: 3k3k
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YearVantage cars on SORN
2014551
2015621
2016740
20171,005
20181,259
20191,459
20201,884
20211,912
20222,114
20232,408
20242,660
20252,880

Which model years survive

Taxed Vantage cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 6,892 taxed in all. Every build year holding at least 1% has its own row; the rest share one. 34 taxed Vantage cars have no recorded year of manufacture and are not in the table, so the rows add up to 6,858. 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 Vantage cars
20252643.8%
20241852.7%
20232273.3%
20223184.6%
20213014.4%
20201702.5%
20196209.0%
20183995.8%
20172383.5%
20162924.2%
20152653.8%
20142603.8%
20132363.4%
20122213.2%
20111912.8%
20102333.4%
20093605.2%
20084266.2%
20076329.2%
200681811.9%
2005751.1%
All other build years (30 years, each under 1%)1271.8%

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 VANTAGE, VANTAGE S V8 AUTO 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 Vantage ages

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

Aston Martin VantageAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Aston Martin Vantage, vehicle age 6: 94.2%Aston Martin Vantage, vehicle age 16: 91%Aston Martin Vantage, vehicle age 17: 90.2%Aston Martin Vantage, vehicle age 18: 92.1%Aston Martin Vantage, vehicle age 19: 90.5%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%Aston Martin Vantage 90.5%All cars 57.6%
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Age (years)Vantage testsVantage pass rateAll cars
670994.2%83.5%
1651091.0%58.3%
1763090.2%57.2%
1891792.1%57.4%
191,18190.5%57.0%

Better or worse than the average car?

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

Vantage ahead
-36-18+0+18+36Age 6: +10.7 points vs the average carAge 16: +32.7 points vs the average carAge 17: +33.0 points vs the average car17Age 18: +34.7 points vs the average carAge 19: +33.5 points vs the average car19Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
6+10.7
16+32.7
17+33.0
18+34.7
19+33.5

The Vantage fleet on the road, by age

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

05001k1k2kAge 6: 7096Age 16: 51016Age 17: 630Age 18: 91718Age 19: 1k19Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
6709
16510
17630
18917
191,181

What a Vantage fails on

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

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment33.9%
Tyres13.3%
Visibility13.1%
Brakes12.4%
Noise, emissions and leaks11.5%
Suspension6.2%
Identification of the vehicle5.3%
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems1.5%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (97.1% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

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

Tyres: 49.7% of advisories49.7%Brakes: 30.0% of advisories30.0%Suspension: 9.7% of advisories9.7%Non-component advisories: 3.9% of advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaks: 3.5% of advisoriesBody, chassis, structure: 0.8% of advisories
TyresBrakesSuspensionNon-component advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaksBody, chassis, structure
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CategoryShare of advisories
Tyres49.7%
Brakes30.0%
Suspension9.7%
Non-component advisories3.9%
Noise, emissions and leaks3.5%
Body, chassis, structure0.8%

What mileage is normal for a Vantage?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) Vantage; 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 Vantage (median)
0k25k50k75k6161819Vehicle age (years)Age 6: typical 18,750 miles (middle half 13,750–26,250)Age 16: typical 36,250 miles (middle half 26,250–46,250)Age 17: typical 41,250 miles (middle half 28,750–53,750)Age 18: typical 43,750 miles (middle half 31,250–58,750)Age 19: typical 48,750 miles (middle half 33,750–63,750)48k mi

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

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
613,75018,75026,250
1626,25036,25046,250
1728,75041,25053,750
1831,25043,75058,750
1933,75048,75063,750

What fails at each age

The Vantage'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.

TyresIdentification of the vehicleLamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentNoise, emissions and leaksVisibilityBrakesBody, chassis, structureEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
3-5 yrsTyres41.5%
3-5 yrsIdentification of the vehicle14.6%
3-5 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment14.6%
3-5 yrsNoise, emissions and leaks12.2%
3-5 yrsVisibility12.2%
3-5 yrsEverything else4.9%
6-9 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment28.7%
6-9 yrsTyres21.3%
6-9 yrsVisibility14.0%
6-9 yrsNoise, emissions and leaks13.2%
6-9 yrsBrakes9.6%
6-9 yrsEverything else13.2%
10-13 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment26.4%
10-13 yrsTyres18.6%
10-13 yrsNoise, emissions and leaks17.1%
10-13 yrsBrakes14.7%
10-13 yrsBody, chassis, structure6.2%
10-13 yrsEverything else17.0%
14+ yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment30.0%
14+ yrsBrakes16.6%
14+ yrsVisibility15.2%
14+ yrsTyres11.6%
14+ yrsNoise, emissions and leaks10.1%
14+ yrsEverything else16.5%

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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.