Jaguar XE MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Jaguar XE in Great Britain in 2025 — 42,920 tests. Figures cover every XE first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the XE ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
81.0%
8.7 points above the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
42,920
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
6.9%
of XE first tests; national 7.3%
Typical mileage at 10 years
76,250
middle half: 53,750–96,250 miles (2,500-mile-band midpoints)

How many Jaguar XE cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 44,158 Jaguar XE cars that were taxed or on SORN: 42,806 taxed and 1,352 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. Jaguar XE vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
42,806
96.9% of the 44,158 XE cars taxed or on SORN; 68 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
1,352
declared off the road by their keepers — 3.1% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed XE cars peaked at 44,493 at the end of 2023 and has since fallen by 1,687 (3.8%) to 42,806 at the end of 2025. Cars on SORN went from 94 at the end of 2015 to 1,352 at the end of 2025, up 1338.3%. 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 XE cars, year by year

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

010k20k30k40k50k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Taxed XE cars, year 2014: 0Taxed XE cars, year 2015: 9kTaxed XE cars, year 2016: 21kTaxed XE cars, year 2017: 32kTaxed XE cars, year 2018: 38kTaxed XE cars, year 2019: 43kTaxed XE cars, year 2020: 44kTaxed XE cars, year 2021: 44kTaxed XE cars, year 2022: 44kTaxed XE cars, year 2023: 44kTaxed XE cars, year 2024: 44kTaxed XE cars, year 2025: 43k43k
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YearTaxed XE cars
20140
20158,823
201621,028
201731,622
201837,793
201942,564
202043,652
202144,054
202244,326
202344,493
202444,135
202542,806

XE 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.

05001k2k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)XE cars on SORN, year 2014: 0XE cars on SORN, year 2015: 94XE cars on SORN, year 2016: 439XE cars on SORN, year 2017: 318XE cars on SORN, year 2018: 289XE cars on SORN, year 2019: 267XE cars on SORN, year 2020: 441XE cars on SORN, year 2021: 361XE cars on SORN, year 2022: 481XE cars on SORN, year 2023: 653XE cars on SORN, year 2024: 927XE cars on SORN, year 2025: 1k1k
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YearXE cars on SORN
20140
201594
2016439
2017318
2018289
2019267
2020441
2021361
2022481
2023653
2024927
20251,352

Which model years survive

Taxed XE cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 42,806 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 XE cars
20246571.5%
20238772.0%
20219092.1%
20201,5823.7%
20194,37110.2%
20185,42012.7%
20179,91123.2%
201611,24626.3%
20157,71118.0%
All other build years (two years, each under 1%)1220.3%

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 XE SERIES 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 XE ages

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

Jaguar XEAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Jaguar XE, vehicle age 4: 84.4%Jaguar XE, vehicle age 5: 84.1%Jaguar XE, vehicle age 6: 82.5%Jaguar XE, vehicle age 7: 81.8%Jaguar XE, vehicle age 8: 82%Jaguar XE, vehicle age 9: 80.1%Jaguar XE, vehicle age 10: 78.7%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%Jaguar XE 78.7%All cars 57.6%
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Age (years)XE testsXE pass rateAll cars
497084.4%87.2%
51,65184.1%86.0%
64,54582.5%83.5%
75,64181.8%80.9%
810,26782.0%78.2%
911,63980.1%74.9%
108,05578.7%71.9%

Better or worse than the average car?

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

XE aheadXE behind
-8-4+0+4+8Age 4: -2.8 points vs the average carAge 5: -1.9 points vs the average car5Age 6: -1.0 points vs the average carAge 7: +0.9 points vs the average car7Age 8: +3.8 points vs the average carAge 9: +5.2 points vs the average car9Age 10: +6.8 points vs the average carVehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
4-2.8
5-1.9
6-1.0
7+0.9
8+3.8
9+5.2
10+6.8

The XE fleet on the road, by age

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

05k10k15k20kAge 4: 9704Age 5: 1kAge 6: 4k6Age 7: 5kAge 8: 10k8Age 9: 11kAge 10: 8k10Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
4970
51,651
64,545
75,641
810,267
911,639
108,055

What a XE fails on

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

Tyres28.6%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment18.6%
Brakes18.5%
Suspension10.0%
Visibility9.0%
Noise, emissions and leaks7.1%
Road Wheels2.4%
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems2.1%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (96.5% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

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

Tyres: 42.1% of advisories42.1%Brakes: 37.4% of advisories37.4%Suspension: 10.1% of advisories10.1%Non-component advisories: 4.2% of advisoriesRoad Wheels: 2.0% of advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaks: 1.8% of advisories
TyresBrakesSuspensionNon-component advisoriesRoad WheelsNoise, emissions and leaks
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CategoryShare of advisories
Tyres42.1%
Brakes37.4%
Suspension10.1%
Non-component advisories4.2%
Road Wheels2.0%
Noise, emissions and leaks1.8%

Petrol, diesel or hybrid XE?

First-time pass rate for the two most-tested XE 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%Diesel: 79.7% of 29,888 tests79.7%Diesel29,888 testsPetrol: 84.2% of 13,024 tests84.2%Petrol13,024 tests
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FuelTestsPass rate
Diesel29,88879.7%
Petrol13,02484.2%

What mileage is normal for a XE?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) XE; 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 XE (median)
0k25k50k75k100k46810Vehicle age (years)Age 4: typical 31,250 miles (middle half 21,250–41,250)Age 5: typical 33,750 miles (middle half 23,750–48,750)Age 6: typical 43,750 miles (middle half 31,250–61,250)Age 7: typical 53,750 miles (middle half 38,750–71,250)Age 8: typical 63,750 miles (middle half 46,250–83,750)Age 9: typical 73,750 miles (middle half 53,750–93,750)Age 10: typical 76,250 miles (middle half 53,750–96,250)76k mi

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

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
421,25031,25041,250
523,75033,75048,750
631,25043,75061,250
738,75053,75071,250
846,25063,75083,750
953,75073,75093,750
1053,75076,25096,250

What fails at each age

The XE'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.

TyresBrakesVisibilitySuspensionNoise, emissions and leaksLamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
3-5 yrsTyres52.6%
3-5 yrsBrakes13.9%
3-5 yrsVisibility13.1%
3-5 yrsSuspension9.8%
3-5 yrsNoise, emissions and leaks4.7%
3-5 yrsEverything else5.9%
6-9 yrsTyres33.2%
6-9 yrsBrakes21.4%
6-9 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment13.3%
6-9 yrsSuspension10.2%
6-9 yrsVisibility7.1%
6-9 yrsEverything else14.8%
10-13 yrsTyres25.2%
10-13 yrsBrakes21.3%
10-13 yrsSuspension16.4%
10-13 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment14.2%
10-13 yrsNoise, emissions and leaks7.7%
10-13 yrsEverything else15.2%

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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.