Porsche Taycan MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Porsche Taycan in Great Britain in 2025 — 10,875 tests. Figures cover every Taycan first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the Taycan ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
90.9%
18.6 points above the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
10,875
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
5.4%
of Taycan first tests; national 7.3%

How many Porsche Taycan cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 22,671 Porsche Taycan cars that were taxed or on SORN: 22,134 taxed and 537 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 Taycan vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
22,134
97.6% of the 22,671 Taycan cars taxed or on SORN; 22 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
537
declared off the road by their keepers — 2.4% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed Taycan cars is still rising: 22,134 at the end of 2025, up 1,241 (5.9%) on the end of 2024, and the highest in the years shown. Cars on SORN went from 16 at the end of 2020 to 537 at the end of 2025, up 3256.2%. 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 Taycan cars, year by year

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

05k10k15k20k25k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Taxed Taycan cars, year 2014: 0Taxed Taycan cars, year 2015: 0Taxed Taycan cars, year 2016: 0Taxed Taycan cars, year 2017: 0Taxed Taycan cars, year 2018: 0Taxed Taycan cars, year 2019: 0Taxed Taycan cars, year 2020: 3kTaxed Taycan cars, year 2021: 7kTaxed Taycan cars, year 2022: 11kTaxed Taycan cars, year 2023: 19kTaxed Taycan cars, year 2024: 21kTaxed Taycan cars, year 2025: 22k22k
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YearTaxed Taycan cars
20140
20150
20160
20170
20180
20190
20203,060
20216,805
202211,433
202318,731
202420,893
202522,134

Taycan 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.

02004006002014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Taycan cars on SORN, year 2014: 0Taycan cars on SORN, year 2015: 0Taycan cars on SORN, year 2016: 0Taycan cars on SORN, year 2017: 0Taycan cars on SORN, year 2018: 0Taycan cars on SORN, year 2019: 0Taycan cars on SORN, year 2020: 16Taycan cars on SORN, year 2021: 84Taycan cars on SORN, year 2022: 153Taycan cars on SORN, year 2023: 304Taycan cars on SORN, year 2024: 400Taycan cars on SORN, year 2025: 537537
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YearTaycan cars on SORN
20140
20150
20160
20170
20180
20190
202016
202184
2022153
2023304
2024400
2025537

Which model years survive

Taxed Taycan cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 22,134 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 Taycan cars
20251,7437.9%
20242,74112.4%
20237,38933.4%
20224,37819.8%
20213,33115.0%
20202,55211.5%

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 TAYCAN 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 Taycan ages

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

Porsche TaycanAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Porsche Taycan, vehicle age 3: 90.5%Porsche Taycan, vehicle age 4: 91.7%Porsche Taycan, vehicle age 5: 90.7%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%Porsche Taycan 90.7%All cars 57.6%
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Age (years)Taycan testsTaycan pass rateAll cars
34,49590.5%88.5%
43,55591.7%87.2%
52,62290.7%86.0%

Better or worse than the average car?

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

Taycan ahead
-6-3+0+3+6Age 3: +2.0 points vs the average car3Age 4: +4.5 points vs the average carAge 5: +4.7 points vs the average car5Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
3+2.0
4+4.5
5+4.7

The Taycan fleet on the road, by age

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

01k2k3k5kAge 3: 4k3Age 4: 3kAge 5: 2k5Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
34,495
43,555
52,622

What a Taycan fails on

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

Tyres68.9%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment9.5%
Identification of the vehicle9.1%
Visibility3.7%
Brakes3.4%
Suspension2.1%
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems1.4%
Road Wheels1.3%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (99.5% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

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

Tyres: 83.1% of advisories83.1%Non-component advisories: 9.0% of advisories9.0%Brakes: 4.2% of advisoriesIdentification of the vehicle: 1.5% of advisoriesRoad Wheels: 1.1% of advisoriesSuspension: 0.9% of advisories
TyresNon-component advisoriesBrakesIdentification of the vehicleRoad WheelsSuspension
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CategoryShare of advisories
Tyres83.1%
Non-component advisories9.0%
Brakes4.2%
Identification of the vehicle1.5%
Road Wheels1.1%
Suspension0.9%

What mileage is normal for a Taycan?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) Taycan; 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 Taycan (median)
0k25k50k35Vehicle age (years)Age 3: typical 23,750 miles (middle half 16,250–31,250)Age 4: typical 28,750 miles (middle half 21,250–38,750)Age 5: typical 31,250 miles (middle half 23,750–43,750)31k mi

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

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
316,25023,75031,250
421,25028,75038,750
523,75031,25043,750
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.