Honda Insight MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Honda Insight in Great Britain in 2025 — 8,497 tests. Figures cover every Insight first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the Insight ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
67.6%
4.7 points below the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
8,497
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
7.7%
of Insight first tests; national 7.3%

How many Honda Insight cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 8,551 Honda Insight cars that were taxed or on SORN: 8,100 taxed and 451 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. Honda Insight vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
8,100
94.7% of the 8,551 Insight cars taxed or on SORN; 11 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
451
declared off the road by their keepers — 5.3% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed Insight cars peaked at 9,508 at the end of 2014 and has since fallen by 1,408 (14.8%) to 8,100 at the end of 2025. Cars on SORN went from 55 at the end of 2014 to 451 at the end of 2025, up 720.0%. 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 Insight 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 Insight cars, year 2014: 10kTaxed Insight cars, year 2015: 9kTaxed Insight cars, year 2016: 9kTaxed Insight cars, year 2017: 9kTaxed Insight cars, year 2018: 9kTaxed Insight cars, year 2019: 9kTaxed Insight cars, year 2020: 9kTaxed Insight cars, year 2021: 9kTaxed Insight cars, year 2022: 9kTaxed Insight cars, year 2023: 9kTaxed Insight cars, year 2024: 8kTaxed Insight cars, year 2025: 8k8k
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YearTaxed Insight cars
20149,508
20159,362
20169,341
20179,272
20189,146
20199,068
20208,900
20218,861
20228,756
20238,612
20248,388
20258,100

Insight 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.

01002003004005002014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Insight cars on SORN, year 2014: 55Insight cars on SORN, year 2015: 80Insight cars on SORN, year 2016: 100Insight cars on SORN, year 2017: 138Insight cars on SORN, year 2018: 178Insight cars on SORN, year 2019: 189Insight cars on SORN, year 2020: 239Insight cars on SORN, year 2021: 270Insight cars on SORN, year 2022: 306Insight cars on SORN, year 2023: 355Insight cars on SORN, year 2024: 393Insight cars on SORN, year 2025: 451451
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YearInsight cars on SORN
201455
201580
2016100
2017138
2018178
2019189
2020239
2021270
2022306
2023355
2024393
2025451

Which model years survive

Taxed Insight cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 8,100 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 Insight cars
20142262.8%
20133994.9%
20121,15614.3%
20111,59519.7%
20102,61732.3%
20091,96724.3%
All other build years (13 years, each under 1%)1401.7%

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 INSIGHT 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 Insight ages

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

Honda InsightAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Honda Insight, vehicle age 13: 72.4%Honda Insight, vehicle age 14: 67.3%Honda Insight, vehicle age 15: 65.9%Honda Insight, vehicle age 16: 65.4%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%Honda Insight 65.4%All cars 57.6%
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Age (years)Insight testsInsight pass rateAll cars
131,21172.4%63.5%
141,66367.3%61.2%
152,71465.9%59.3%
162,02265.4%58.3%

Better or worse than the average car?

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

Insight ahead
-10-5+0+5+10Age 13: +8.9 points vs the average car13Age 14: +6.1 points vs the average carAge 15: +6.6 points vs the average car15Age 16: +7.1 points vs the average carVehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
13+8.9
14+6.1
15+6.6
16+7.1

The Insight fleet on the road, by age

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

07501k2k3kAge 13: 1k13Age 14: 1kAge 15: 2k15Age 16: 2k16Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
131,211
141,663
152,714
162,022

What an Insight fails on

Where the failure items land when an Insight 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 equipment38.3%
Suspension16.1%
Brakes15.4%
Tyres9.5%
Visibility7.5%
Body, chassis, structure5.5%
Steering3.3%
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems1.5%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (97.0% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

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

Brakes: 27.1% of advisories27.1%Tyres: 23.5% of advisories23.5%Suspension: 23.4% of advisories23.4%Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment: 7.8% of advisories7.8%Body, chassis, structure: 7.1% of advisories7.1%Non-component advisories: 4.5% of advisories
BrakesTyresSuspensionLamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentBody, chassis, structureNon-component advisories
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CategoryShare of advisories
Brakes27.1%
Tyres23.5%
Suspension23.4%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment7.8%
Body, chassis, structure7.1%
Non-component advisories4.5%

Petrol, diesel or hybrid Insight?

First-time pass rate for the three most-tested Insight 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%Hybrid electric: 68.0% of 3,966 tests68.0%Hybrid3,966 testsPetrol: 67.2% of 2,181 tests67.2%Petrol2,181 testsElectric: 70.3% of 1,160 tests70.3%Electric1,160 tests
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FuelTestsPass rate
Hybrid electric3,96668.0%
Petrol2,18167.2%
Electric1,16070.3%

What mileage is normal for an Insight?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) Insight; 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 Insight (median)
0k25k50k75k100k125k150k175k200k131516Vehicle age (years)Age 13: typical 118,750 miles (middle half 76,250–178,750)Age 14: typical 118,750 miles (middle half 78,750–176,250)Age 15: typical 111,250 miles (middle half 81,250–151,250)Age 16: typical 113,750 miles (middle half 83,750–143,750)113k mi

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

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
1376,250118,750178,750
1478,750118,750176,250
1581,250111,250151,250
1683,750113,750143,750

What fails at each age

The Insight'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 equipmentSuspensionBrakesTyresVisibilityBody, chassis, structureEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
10-13 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment36.5%
10-13 yrsSuspension18.0%
10-13 yrsBrakes16.4%
10-13 yrsTyres11.2%
10-13 yrsVisibility5.7%
10-13 yrsEverything else12.2%
14+ yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment31.6%
14+ yrsSuspension19.4%
14+ yrsBrakes18.6%
14+ yrsTyres10.1%
14+ yrsBody, chassis, structure6.9%
14+ yrsEverything else13.4%

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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.