Mitsubishi Mirage MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Mitsubishi Mirage in Great Britain in 2025 — 11,135 tests. Figures cover every Mirage first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the Mirage ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
80.5%
8.2 points above the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
11,135
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
7.3%
of Mirage first tests; national 7.3%
Typical mileage at 10 years
46,250
middle half: 31,250–66,250 miles (2,500-mile-band midpoints)

How many Mitsubishi Mirage cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 11,141 Mitsubishi Mirage cars that were taxed or on SORN: 10,924 taxed and 217 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. Mitsubishi Mirage vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
10,924
98.1% of the 11,141 Mirage cars taxed or on SORN; 20 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
217
declared off the road by their keepers — 1.9% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed Mirage cars peaked at 11,430 at the end of 2021 and has since fallen by 506 (4.4%) to 10,924 at the end of 2025. Cars on SORN went from 15 at the end of 2014 to 217 at the end of 2025, up 1346.7%. 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 Mirage 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 Mirage cars, year 2014: 4kTaxed Mirage cars, year 2015: 6kTaxed Mirage cars, year 2016: 7kTaxed Mirage cars, year 2017: 8kTaxed Mirage cars, year 2018: 9kTaxed Mirage cars, year 2019: 11kTaxed Mirage cars, year 2020: 11kTaxed Mirage cars, year 2021: 11kTaxed Mirage cars, year 2022: 11kTaxed Mirage cars, year 2023: 11kTaxed Mirage cars, year 2024: 11kTaxed Mirage cars, year 2025: 11k11k
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YearTaxed Mirage cars
20144,340
20155,844
20167,145
20178,413
20189,439
201910,523
202011,086
202111,430
202211,311
202311,192
202411,038
202510,924

Mirage 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.

0501001502002502014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Mirage cars on SORN, year 2014: 15Mirage cars on SORN, year 2015: 18Mirage cars on SORN, year 2016: 49Mirage cars on SORN, year 2017: 63Mirage cars on SORN, year 2018: 77Mirage cars on SORN, year 2019: 119Mirage cars on SORN, year 2020: 129Mirage cars on SORN, year 2021: 113Mirage cars on SORN, year 2022: 131Mirage cars on SORN, year 2023: 153Mirage cars on SORN, year 2024: 176Mirage cars on SORN, year 2025: 217217
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YearMirage cars on SORN
201415
201518
201649
201763
201877
2019119
2020129
2021113
2022131
2023153
2024176
2025217

Which model years survive

Taxed Mirage cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 10,924 taxed in all. Every build year holding at least 1% has its own row; the rest share one. 1 taxed Mirage car has no recorded year of manufacture and is not in the table, so the rows add up to 10,923. 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 Mirage cars
20212532.3%
20206866.3%
20191,11510.2%
20181,0439.5%
20171,25411.5%
20161,36712.5%
20151,45913.4%
20141,68815.5%
20132,05818.8%
All other build years (three years, each under 1%)00.0%

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 MIRAGE 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 Mirage ages

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

Mitsubishi MirageAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Mitsubishi Mirage, vehicle age 5: 88.4%Mitsubishi Mirage, vehicle age 6: 86.4%Mitsubishi Mirage, vehicle age 7: 82.8%Mitsubishi Mirage, vehicle age 8: 85.2%Mitsubishi Mirage, vehicle age 9: 81.5%Mitsubishi Mirage, vehicle age 10: 80.2%Mitsubishi Mirage, vehicle age 11: 77.4%Mitsubishi Mirage, vehicle age 12: 72%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%Mitsubishi Mirage 72%All cars 57.6%
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Age (years)Mirage testsMirage pass rateAll cars
570888.4%86.0%
61,13286.4%83.5%
71,02682.8%80.9%
81,26685.2%78.2%
91,38781.5%74.9%
101,48280.2%71.9%
111,71977.4%68.6%
122,13272.0%65.8%

Better or worse than the average car?

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

Mirage ahead
-10-5+0+5+10Age 5: +2.4 points vs the average car5Age 6: +2.9 points vs the average carAge 7: +1.9 points vs the average car7Age 8: +7.0 points vs the average carAge 9: +6.6 points vs the average car9Age 10: +8.3 points vs the average carAge 11: +8.8 points vs the average car11Age 12: +6.2 points vs the average carVehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
5+2.4
6+2.9
7+1.9
8+7.0
9+6.6
10+8.3
11+8.8
12+6.2

The Mirage fleet on the road, by age

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

07501k2k3kAge 5: 7085Age 6: 1kAge 7: 1k7Age 8: 1kAge 9: 1k9Age 10: 1kAge 11: 1k11Age 12: 2k12Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
5708
61,132
71,026
81,266
91,387
101,482
111,719
122,132

What a Mirage fails on

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

Tyres22.8%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment20.4%
Brakes17.5%
Visibility14.9%
Suspension11.8%
Body, chassis, structure4.3%
Noise, emissions and leaks3.7%
Steering2.2%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (97.7% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

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

Tyres: 41.8% of advisories41.8%Brakes: 32.4% of advisories32.4%Suspension: 13.4% of advisories13.4%Non-component advisories: 5.2% of advisoriesBody, chassis, structure: 2.9% of advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaks: 1.7% of advisories
TyresBrakesSuspensionNon-component advisoriesBody, chassis, structureNoise, emissions and leaks
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CategoryShare of advisories
Tyres41.8%
Brakes32.4%
Suspension13.4%
Non-component advisories5.2%
Body, chassis, structure2.9%
Noise, emissions and leaks1.7%

What mileage is normal for a Mirage?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) Mirage; 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 Mirage (median)
0k25k50k75k100k5791112Vehicle age (years)Age 5: typical 23,750 miles (middle half 13,750–33,750)Age 6: typical 26,250 miles (middle half 16,250–38,750)Age 7: typical 31,250 miles (middle half 21,250–46,250)Age 8: typical 36,250 miles (middle half 23,750–51,250)Age 9: typical 41,250 miles (middle half 26,250–56,250)Age 10: typical 46,250 miles (middle half 31,250–66,250)Age 11: typical 53,750 miles (middle half 36,250–76,250)Age 12: typical 63,750 miles (middle half 43,750–83,750)63k mi

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

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
513,75023,75033,750
616,25026,25038,750
721,25031,25046,250
823,75036,25051,250
926,25041,25056,250
1031,25046,25066,250
1136,25053,75076,250
1243,75063,75083,750

What fails at each age

The Mirage'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 equipmentTyresBrakesVisibilitySuspensionEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
3-5 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment32.0%
3-5 yrsTyres27.5%
3-5 yrsBrakes23.5%
3-5 yrsVisibility12.4%
3-5 yrsSuspension2.0%
3-5 yrsEverything else2.6%
6-9 yrsTyres33.4%
6-9 yrsBrakes28.6%
6-9 yrsVisibility13.8%
6-9 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment9.3%
6-9 yrsSuspension5.7%
6-9 yrsEverything else9.2%
10-13 yrsTyres22.7%
10-13 yrsSuspension19.6%
10-13 yrsBrakes16.9%
10-13 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment14.4%
10-13 yrsVisibility8.8%
10-13 yrsEverything else17.6%

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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.