Rover 75 MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Rover 75 in Great Britain in 2025 — 6,210 tests. Figures cover every 75 first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the 75 ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
59.9%
12.4 points below the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
6,210
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
8.3%
of 75 first tests; national 7.3%

How many Rover 75 cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 14,563 Rover 75 cars that were taxed or on SORN: 5,553 taxed and 9,010 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. Rover 75 vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
5,553
38.1% of the 14,563 75 cars taxed or on SORN; 176 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
9,010
declared off the road by their keepers — 61.9% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed 75 cars peaked at 52,229 at the end of 2014 and has since fallen by 46,676 (89.4%) to 5,553 at the end of 2025. Cars on SORN went from 5,677 at the end of 2014 to 9,010 at the end of 2025, up 58.7%. 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 75 cars, year by year

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

020k40k60k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Taxed 75 cars, year 2014: 52kTaxed 75 cars, year 2015: 44kTaxed 75 cars, year 2016: 37kTaxed 75 cars, year 2017: 29kTaxed 75 cars, year 2018: 23kTaxed 75 cars, year 2019: 18kTaxed 75 cars, year 2020: 15kTaxed 75 cars, year 2021: 12kTaxed 75 cars, year 2022: 10kTaxed 75 cars, year 2023: 8kTaxed 75 cars, year 2024: 7kTaxed 75 cars, year 2025: 6k6k
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YearTaxed 75 cars
201452,229
201544,275
201636,798
201729,266
201823,185
201918,482
202014,966
202112,142
202210,024
20238,200
20246,669
20255,553

75 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 — for this model, cars on SORN outnumber taxed ones.

02k4k6k8k10k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)75 cars on SORN, year 2014: 6k75 cars on SORN, year 2015: 7k75 cars on SORN, year 2016: 8k75 cars on SORN, year 2017: 9k75 cars on SORN, year 2018: 9k75 cars on SORN, year 2019: 9k75 cars on SORN, year 2020: 10k75 cars on SORN, year 2021: 10k75 cars on SORN, year 2022: 10k75 cars on SORN, year 2023: 10k75 cars on SORN, year 2024: 9k75 cars on SORN, year 2025: 9k9k
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Year75 cars on SORN
20145,677
20156,984
20168,287
20178,919
20189,200
20199,488
20209,841
20219,586
20229,501
20239,504
20249,188
20259,010

Which model years survive

Taxed 75 cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 5,553 taxed in all. Every build year holding at least 1% has its own row; the rest share one. 265 taxed 75 cars have no recorded year of manufacture and are not in the table, so the rows add up to 5,288. 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 75 cars
20061382.5%
200571412.9%
20041,42025.6%
20031,16621.0%
200287515.8%
20015049.1%
20002494.5%
19991061.9%
All other build years (18 years, each under 1%)1162.1%

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 75 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 75 ages

First-time pass rate by vehicle age, 75 vs all cars, 2025.

Rover 75All cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Rover 75, vehicle age 20: 58.8%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%Rover 75 58.8%All cars 57.6%
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Age (years)75 tests75 pass rateAll cars
2086458.8%57.6%

Better or worse than the average car?

The 75's pass rate minus the all-cars pass rate at each age, in percentage points. Bars above zero: the 75 beats the average car of that age. Below zero: it trails.

75 ahead
-2-1+0+1+2Age 20: +1.2 points vs the average car20Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
20+1.2

The 75 fleet on the road, by age

How many took a first MOT in 2025 at each age — the shape of the 75 fleet still in use.

0225450675900Age 20: 86420Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
20864

What a 75 fails on

Where the failure items land when a 75 fails or needs a fix at test, 2025. Use it as a pre-purchase checklist: these are the areas to look at first.

Suspension31.2%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment21.6%
Brakes15.7%
Body, chassis, structure8.1%
Visibility5.5%
Tyres5.0%
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems4.5%
Noise, emissions and leaks4.4%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (96.0% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

Where testers most often write "keep an eye on this" for a 75, 2025 — the faults in the post.

Suspension: 33.4% of advisories33.4%Brakes: 28.1% of advisories28.1%Tyres: 16.7% of advisories16.7%Body, chassis, structure: 5.5% of advisoriesLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment: 4.8% of advisoriesSteering: 2.9% of advisories
SuspensionBrakesTyresBody, chassis, structureLamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSteering
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CategoryShare of advisories
Suspension33.4%
Brakes28.1%
Tyres16.7%
Body, chassis, structure5.5%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment4.8%
Steering2.9%

Petrol, diesel or hybrid 75?

First-time pass rate for the two most-tested 75 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: 57.8% of 3,627 tests57.8%Diesel3,627 testsPetrol: 62.6% of 2,573 tests62.6%Petrol2,573 tests
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FuelTestsPass rate
Diesel3,62757.8%
Petrol2,57362.6%
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.