Porsche Panamera MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Porsche Panamera in Great Britain in 2025 — 7,544 tests. Figures cover every Panamera first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the Panamera ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
88.3%
16.0 points above the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
7,544
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
4.8%
of Panamera first tests; national 7.3%
Typical mileage at 10 years
76,250
middle half: 61,250–93,750 miles (2,500-mile-band midpoints)

How many Porsche Panamera cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 9,672 Porsche Panamera cars that were taxed or on SORN: 8,792 taxed and 880 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. Porsche Panamera vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
8,792
90.9% of the 9,672 Panamera cars taxed or on SORN; 49 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
880
declared off the road by their keepers — 9.1% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed Panamera cars is still rising: 8,792 at the end of 2025, up 396 (4.7%) on the end of 2024, and the highest in the years shown. Cars on SORN went from 120 at the end of 2014 to 880 at the end of 2025, up 633.3%. 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 Panamera 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 Panamera cars, year 2014: 3kTaxed Panamera cars, year 2015: 4kTaxed Panamera cars, year 2016: 4kTaxed Panamera cars, year 2017: 5kTaxed Panamera cars, year 2018: 6kTaxed Panamera cars, year 2019: 7kTaxed Panamera cars, year 2020: 7kTaxed Panamera cars, year 2021: 7kTaxed Panamera cars, year 2022: 7kTaxed Panamera cars, year 2023: 8kTaxed Panamera cars, year 2024: 8kTaxed Panamera cars, year 2025: 9k9k
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YearTaxed Panamera cars
20143,206
20153,932
20164,218
20175,264
20185,956
20196,650
20206,920
20217,139
20227,402
20237,938
20248,396
20258,792

Panamera 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.

02004006008001k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Panamera cars on SORN, year 2014: 120Panamera cars on SORN, year 2015: 120Panamera cars on SORN, year 2016: 147Panamera cars on SORN, year 2017: 227Panamera cars on SORN, year 2018: 315Panamera cars on SORN, year 2019: 398Panamera cars on SORN, year 2020: 473Panamera cars on SORN, year 2021: 504Panamera cars on SORN, year 2022: 576Panamera cars on SORN, year 2023: 693Panamera cars on SORN, year 2024: 808Panamera cars on SORN, year 2025: 880880
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YearPanamera cars on SORN
2014120
2015120
2016147
2017227
2018315
2019398
2020473
2021504
2022576
2023693
2024808
2025880

Which model years survive

Taxed Panamera cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 8,792 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 Panamera cars
20255616.4%
20245746.5%
20236787.7%
20223884.4%
20212783.2%
20204154.7%
20197338.3%
20187118.1%
201790810.3%
20163123.5%
20156237.1%
20146697.6%
20136597.5%
20126056.9%
20113153.6%
20102713.1%
2009921.0%

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 PANAMERA 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 Panamera ages

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

Porsche PanameraAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Porsche Panamera, vehicle age 6: 91.3%Porsche Panamera, vehicle age 7: 90.6%Porsche Panamera, vehicle age 8: 91.1%Porsche Panamera, vehicle age 10: 84.5%Porsche Panamera, vehicle age 11: 87.2%Porsche Panamera, vehicle age 12: 84.2%Porsche Panamera, vehicle age 13: 86.8%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%Porsche Panamera 86.8%All cars 57.6%
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Age (years)Panamera testsPanamera pass rateAll cars
679391.3%83.5%
776290.6%80.9%
897191.1%78.2%
1065184.5%71.9%
1172187.2%68.6%
1272684.2%65.8%
1364386.8%63.5%

Better or worse than the average car?

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

Panamera ahead
-24-12+0+12+24Age 6: +7.8 points vs the average carAge 7: +9.7 points vs the average car7Age 8: +12.9 points vs the average carAge 10: +12.6 points vs the average carAge 11: +18.6 points vs the average car11Age 12: +18.4 points vs the average carAge 13: +23.3 points vs the average car13Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
6+7.8
7+9.7
8+12.9
10+12.6
11+18.6
12+18.4
13+23.3

The Panamera fleet on the road, by age

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

02505007501kAge 6: 7936Age 7: 762Age 8: 9718Age 10: 65110Age 11: 721Age 12: 72612Age 13: 64313Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
6793
7762
8971
10651
11721
12726
13643

What a Panamera fails on

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

Tyres40.0%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment16.0%
Suspension10.2%
Brakes9.7%
Visibility7.4%
Noise, emissions and leaks6.0%
Identification of the vehicle3.9%
Road Wheels3.3%

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 Panamera, 2025 — the faults in the post.

Tyres: 56.8% of advisories56.8%Brakes: 26.6% of advisories26.6%Non-component advisories: 6.1% of advisoriesSuspension: 4.2% of advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaks: 2.9% of advisoriesIdentification of the vehicle: 1.2% of advisories
TyresBrakesNon-component advisoriesSuspensionNoise, emissions and leaksIdentification of the vehicle
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CategoryShare of advisories
Tyres56.8%
Brakes26.6%
Non-component advisories6.1%
Suspension4.2%
Noise, emissions and leaks2.9%
Identification of the vehicle1.2%

Petrol, diesel or hybrid Panamera?

First-time pass rate for the three most-tested Panamera 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: 90.3% of 2,722 tests90.3%Petrol2,722 testsHybrid electric: 88.9% of 2,463 tests88.9%Hybrid2,463 testsDiesel: 85.3% of 2,355 tests85.3%Diesel2,355 tests
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FuelTestsPass rate
Petrol2,72290.3%
Hybrid electric2,46388.9%
Diesel2,35585.3%

What mileage is normal for a Panamera?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) Panamera; 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 Panamera (median)
0k25k50k75k100k125k68101213Vehicle age (years)Age 6: typical 41,250 miles (middle half 31,250–53,750)Age 7: typical 51,250 miles (middle half 38,750–66,250)Age 8: typical 56,250 miles (middle half 41,250–71,250)Age 10: typical 76,250 miles (middle half 61,250–93,750)Age 11: typical 78,750 miles (middle half 66,250–98,750)Age 12: typical 88,750 miles (middle half 71,250–108,750)Age 13: typical 91,250 miles (middle half 71,250–116,250)91k mi

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

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
631,25041,25053,750
738,75051,25066,250
841,25056,25071,250
1061,25076,25093,750
1166,25078,75098,750
1271,25088,750108,750
1371,25091,250116,250

What fails at each age

The Panamera'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.

TyresBrakesVisibilityLamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentNoise, emissions and leaksSuspensionEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
3-5 yrsTyres81.4%
3-5 yrsBrakes5.8%
3-5 yrsVisibility4.5%
3-5 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment3.8%
3-5 yrsNoise, emissions and leaks1.9%
3-5 yrsEverything else2.6%
6-9 yrsTyres64.3%
6-9 yrsNoise, emissions and leaks8.6%
6-9 yrsBrakes5.4%
6-9 yrsVisibility5.4%
6-9 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment4.6%
6-9 yrsEverything else11.7%
10-13 yrsTyres29.4%
10-13 yrsSuspension19.0%
10-13 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment17.3%
10-13 yrsBrakes11.2%
10-13 yrsVisibility7.0%
10-13 yrsEverything else16.1%
14+ yrsTyres24.5%
14+ yrsBrakes20.5%
14+ yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment18.5%
14+ yrsSuspension9.0%
14+ yrsNoise, emissions and leaks7.5%
14+ yrsEverything else20.0%
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.