Ford Fusion MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Ford Fusion in Great Britain in 2025 — 46,353 tests. Figures cover every Fusion first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the Fusion ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
57.8%
14.5 points below the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
46,353
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
8.6%
of Fusion first tests; national 7.3%

How many Ford Fusion cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 48,377 Ford Fusion cars that were taxed or on SORN: 42,566 taxed and 5,811 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. Ford Fusion vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
42,566
88.0% of the 48,377 Fusion cars taxed or on SORN; 46 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
5,811
declared off the road by their keepers — 12.0% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed Fusion cars peaked at 101,055 at the end of 2014 and has since fallen by 58,489 (57.9%) to 42,566 at the end of 2025. Cars on SORN went from 877 at the end of 2014 to 5,811 at the end of 2025, up 562.6%. 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 Fusion cars, year by year

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

050k100k150k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Taxed Fusion cars, year 2014: 101kTaxed Fusion cars, year 2015: 98kTaxed Fusion cars, year 2016: 95kTaxed Fusion cars, year 2017: 90kTaxed Fusion cars, year 2018: 85kTaxed Fusion cars, year 2019: 78kTaxed Fusion cars, year 2020: 72kTaxed Fusion cars, year 2021: 66kTaxed Fusion cars, year 2022: 60kTaxed Fusion cars, year 2023: 55kTaxed Fusion cars, year 2024: 49kTaxed Fusion cars, year 2025: 43k43k
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YearTaxed Fusion cars
2014101,055
201598,197
201695,254
201790,400
201884,685
201978,433
202072,351
202165,761
202260,274
202354,836
202448,579
202542,566

Fusion 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.

02k4k6k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Fusion cars on SORN, year 2014: 877Fusion cars on SORN, year 2015: 1kFusion cars on SORN, year 2016: 2kFusion cars on SORN, year 2017: 3kFusion cars on SORN, year 2018: 3kFusion cars on SORN, year 2019: 4kFusion cars on SORN, year 2020: 4kFusion cars on SORN, year 2021: 4kFusion cars on SORN, year 2022: 4kFusion cars on SORN, year 2023: 5kFusion cars on SORN, year 2024: 5kFusion cars on SORN, year 2025: 6k6k
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YearFusion cars on SORN
2014877
20151,401
20162,071
20172,541
20183,095
20193,619
20204,246
20214,459
20224,427
20234,781
20245,288
20255,811

Which model years survive

Taxed Fusion cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 42,566 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 Fusion cars
20127581.8%
20112,3385.5%
20105,14912.1%
20097,35517.3%
20086,65015.6%
20075,88413.8%
20065,14812.1%
20053,4438.1%
20042,9056.8%
20032,5766.1%
All other build years (seven years, each under 1%)3600.8%

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 name FUSION 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 Fusion ages

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

Ford FusionAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Ford Fusion, vehicle age 13: 68%Ford Fusion, vehicle age 14: 66.7%Ford Fusion, vehicle age 15: 61.3%Ford Fusion, vehicle age 16: 59.8%Ford Fusion, vehicle age 17: 58.2%Ford Fusion, vehicle age 18: 56.8%Ford Fusion, vehicle age 19: 52.4%Ford Fusion, vehicle age 20: 55.8%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%Ford Fusion 55.8%
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Age (years)Fusion testsFusion pass rateAll cars
1377468.0%63.5%
142,43866.7%61.2%
155,42361.3%59.3%
167,83659.8%58.3%
177,15058.2%57.2%
186,42156.8%57.4%
195,73552.4%57.0%
203,85055.8%57.6%

Better or worse than the average car?

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

Fusion aheadFusion behind
-6-3+0+3+6Age 13: +4.5 points vs the average car13Age 14: +5.5 points vs the average carAge 15: +2.0 points vs the average car15Age 16: +1.5 points vs the average carAge 17: +1.0 points vs the average car17Age 18: -0.6 points vs the average carAge 19: -4.6 points vs the average car19Age 20: -1.8 points vs the average car20Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
13+4.5
14+5.5
15+2.0
16+1.5
17+1.0
18-0.6
19-4.6
20-1.8

The Fusion fleet on the road, by age

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

02k4k6k8kAge 13: 77413Age 14: 2kAge 15: 5k15Age 16: 7kAge 17: 7k17Age 18: 6kAge 19: 5k19Age 20: 3k20Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
13774
142,438
155,423
167,836
177,150
186,421
195,735
203,850

What a Fusion fails on

Where the failure items land when a Fusion 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 equipment35.1%
Suspension17.3%
Brakes16.9%
Visibility6.9%
Tyres6.7%
Body, chassis, structure6.6%
Noise, emissions and leaks6.2%
Steering3.1%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (98.8% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

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

Brakes: 28.2% of advisories28.2%Suspension: 22.9% of advisories22.9%Tyres: 21.9% of advisories21.9%Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment: 6.0% of advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaks: 5.8% of advisoriesBody, chassis, structure: 4.8% of advisories
BrakesSuspensionTyresLamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentNoise, emissions and leaksBody, chassis, structure
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CategoryShare of advisories
Brakes28.2%
Suspension22.9%
Tyres21.9%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment6.0%
Noise, emissions and leaks5.8%
Body, chassis, structure4.8%

Petrol, diesel or hybrid Fusion?

First-time pass rate for the two most-tested Fusion 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: 58.2% of 36,093 tests58.2%Petrol36,093 testsDiesel: 56.2% of 10,246 tests56.2%Diesel10,246 tests
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FuelTestsPass rate
Petrol36,09358.2%
Diesel10,24656.2%

What mileage is normal for a Fusion?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) Fusion; 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 Fusion (median)
0k25k50k75k100k125k1315171920Vehicle age (years)Age 13: typical 61,250 miles (middle half 43,750–81,250)Age 14: typical 71,250 miles (middle half 51,250–91,250)Age 15: typical 73,750 miles (middle half 53,750–96,250)Age 16: typical 81,250 miles (middle half 58,750–103,750)Age 17: typical 83,750 miles (middle half 63,750–108,750)Age 18: typical 88,750 miles (middle half 66,250–111,250)Age 19: typical 91,250 miles (middle half 68,750–116,250)Age 20: typical 93,750 miles (middle half 71,250–118,750)93k mi

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

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
1343,75061,25081,250
1451,25071,25091,250
1553,75073,75096,250
1658,75081,250103,750
1763,75083,750108,750
1866,25088,750111,250
1968,75091,250116,250
2071,25093,750118,750

What fails at each age

The Fusion'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.

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentBrakesSuspensionTyresVisibilityBody, chassis, structureEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
10-13 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment30.2%
10-13 yrsBrakes25.8%
10-13 yrsSuspension15.0%
10-13 yrsTyres9.4%
10-13 yrsVisibility9.4%
10-13 yrsEverything else10.2%
14+ yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment29.2%
14+ yrsSuspension19.8%
14+ yrsBrakes19.2%
14+ yrsTyres7.4%
14+ yrsBody, chassis, structure7.3%
14+ yrsEverything else17.1%

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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.