Ford Mustang Mach-E MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Ford Mustang Mach-E in Great Britain in 2025 — 7,121 tests. Figures cover every Mustang Mach-E first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the Mustang Mach-E ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
89.6%
17.3 points above the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
7,121
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
4.0%
of Mustang Mach-E first tests; national 7.3%

How many Ford Mustang Mach-E cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 14,806 Ford Mustang Mach-E cars that were taxed or on SORN: 14,613 taxed and 193 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 Mustang Mach-E vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
14,613
98.7% of the 14,806 Mustang Mach-E cars taxed or on SORN; 9 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
193
declared off the road by their keepers — 1.3% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed Mustang Mach-E cars is still rising: 14,613 at the end of 2025, up 1,035 (7.6%) on the end of 2024, and the highest in the years shown. Cars on SORN went from 7 at the end of 2021 to 193 at the end of 2025, up 2657.1%. 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 Mustang Mach-E cars, year by year

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

05k10k15k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Taxed Mustang Mach-E cars, year 2014: 0Taxed Mustang Mach-E cars, year 2015: 0Taxed Mustang Mach-E cars, year 2016: 0Taxed Mustang Mach-E cars, year 2017: 0Taxed Mustang Mach-E cars, year 2018: 0Taxed Mustang Mach-E cars, year 2019: 0Taxed Mustang Mach-E cars, year 2020: 37Taxed Mustang Mach-E cars, year 2021: 3kTaxed Mustang Mach-E cars, year 2022: 7kTaxed Mustang Mach-E cars, year 2023: 10kTaxed Mustang Mach-E cars, year 2024: 14kTaxed Mustang Mach-E cars, year 2025: 15k15k
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YearTaxed Mustang Mach-E cars
20140
20150
20160
20170
20180
20190
202037
20212,733
20226,978
20239,892
202413,578
202514,613

Mustang Mach-E 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.

0501001502002014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Mustang Mach-E cars on SORN, year 2014: 0Mustang Mach-E cars on SORN, year 2015: 0Mustang Mach-E cars on SORN, year 2016: 0Mustang Mach-E cars on SORN, year 2017: 0Mustang Mach-E cars on SORN, year 2018: 0Mustang Mach-E cars on SORN, year 2019: 0Mustang Mach-E cars on SORN, year 2020: 0Mustang Mach-E cars on SORN, year 2021: 7Mustang Mach-E cars on SORN, year 2022: 82Mustang Mach-E cars on SORN, year 2023: 98Mustang Mach-E cars on SORN, year 2024: 134Mustang Mach-E cars on SORN, year 2025: 193193
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YearMustang Mach-E cars on SORN
20140
20150
20160
20170
20180
20190
20200
20217
202282
202398
2024134
2025193

Which model years survive

Taxed Mustang Mach-E cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 14,613 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 Mustang Mach-E cars
20251,3038.9%
20243,88826.6%
20232,78019.0%
20224,18128.6%
20212,42616.6%
All other build years (one year, each under 1%)350.2%

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 MUSTANG MACH-E 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 Mustang Mach-E ages

First-time pass rate by vehicle age, Mustang Mach-E vs all cars, 2025.

Ford Mustang Mach-EAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Ford Mustang Mach-E, vehicle age 3: 89.4%Ford Mustang Mach-E, vehicle age 4: 90.1%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%Ford Mustang Mach-E 90.1%All cars 57.6%
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Age (years)Mustang Mach-E testsMustang Mach-E pass rateAll cars
34,40689.4%88.5%
42,57790.1%87.2%

Better or worse than the average car?

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

Mustang Mach-E ahead
-4-2+0+2+4Age 3: +0.9 points vs the average car3Age 4: +2.9 points vs the average carVehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
3+0.9
4+2.9

The Mustang Mach-E fleet on the road, by age

How many took a first MOT in 2025 at each age — the shape of the Mustang Mach-E fleet still in use.

01k2k3k5kAge 3: 4k3Age 4: 2k4Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
34,406
42,577

What a Mustang Mach-E fails on

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

Tyres53.3%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment23.3%
Visibility8.7%
Brakes4.8%
Identification of the vehicle4.1%
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems2.4%
Suspension1.9%
Road Wheels0.8%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (99.3% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

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

Tyres: 75.0% of advisories75.0%Brakes: 12.1% of advisories12.1%Non-component advisories: 9.2% of advisories9.2%Suspension: 2.3% of advisoriesIdentification of the vehicle: 0.6% of advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaks: 0.4% of advisories
TyresBrakesNon-component advisoriesSuspensionIdentification of the vehicleNoise, emissions and leaks
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CategoryShare of advisories
Tyres75.0%
Brakes12.1%
Non-component advisories9.2%
Suspension2.3%
Identification of the vehicle0.6%
Noise, emissions and leaks0.4%

What mileage is normal for a Mustang Mach-E?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) Mustang Mach-E; 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 Mustang Mach-E (median)
0k25k50k75k34Vehicle age (years)Age 3: typical 28,750 miles (middle half 21,250–41,250)Age 4: typical 36,250 miles (middle half 26,250–51,250)36k mi

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

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
321,25028,75041,250
426,25036,25051,250

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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.