Rover Mini (classic) MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Rover Mini (classic) in Great Britain in 2025 — 10,921 tests. Figures cover every Mini (classic) first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the Mini (classic) ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
72.2%
0.1 points below the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
10,921
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
4.9%
of Mini (classic) first tests; national 7.3%

How many Rover Mini (classic) cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 29,699 Rover Mini (classic) cars that were taxed or on SORN: 6,890 taxed and 22,809 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 Mini (classic) vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
6,890
23.2% of the 29,699 Mini (classic) cars taxed or on SORN; 34 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
22,809
declared off the road by their keepers — 76.8% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed Mini (classic) cars peaked at 12,584 at the end of 2014 and has since fallen by 5,694 (45.2%) to 6,890 at the end of 2025. Cars on SORN went from 15,793 at the end of 2014 to 22,809 at the end of 2025, up 44.4%. 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 Mini (classic) 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 Mini (classic) cars, year 2014: 13kTaxed Mini (classic) cars, year 2015: 12kTaxed Mini (classic) cars, year 2016: 11kTaxed Mini (classic) cars, year 2017: 10kTaxed Mini (classic) cars, year 2018: 10kTaxed Mini (classic) cars, year 2019: 9kTaxed Mini (classic) cars, year 2020: 9kTaxed Mini (classic) cars, year 2021: 8kTaxed Mini (classic) cars, year 2022: 8kTaxed Mini (classic) cars, year 2023: 7kTaxed Mini (classic) cars, year 2024: 7kTaxed Mini (classic) cars, year 2025: 7k7k
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YearTaxed Mini (classic) cars
201412,584
201511,916
201611,075
201710,462
20189,701
20199,401
20208,615
20218,279
20227,941
20237,293
20246,995
20256,890

Mini (classic) 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.

05k10k15k20k25k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Mini (classic) cars on SORN, year 2014: 16kMini (classic) cars on SORN, year 2015: 17kMini (classic) cars on SORN, year 2016: 18kMini (classic) cars on SORN, year 2017: 19kMini (classic) cars on SORN, year 2018: 20kMini (classic) cars on SORN, year 2019: 21kMini (classic) cars on SORN, year 2020: 21kMini (classic) cars on SORN, year 2021: 22kMini (classic) cars on SORN, year 2022: 22kMini (classic) cars on SORN, year 2023: 23kMini (classic) cars on SORN, year 2024: 23kMini (classic) cars on SORN, year 2025: 23k23k
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YearMini (classic) cars on SORN
201415,793
201516,810
201617,867
201719,303
201820,155
201920,574
202021,406
202121,813
202222,097
202322,560
202422,510
202522,809

Which model years survive

Taxed Mini (classic) cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 6,890 taxed in all. Every build year holding at least 1% has its own row; the rest share one. 9 taxed Mini (classic) cars have no recorded year of manufacture and are not in the table, so the rows add up to 6,881. 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 Mini (classic) cars
20012483.6%
200081011.8%
19995508.0%
19985868.5%
19974406.4%
19965087.4%
19955337.7%
19946189.0%
19936269.1%
19925347.8%
19916789.8%
19906419.3%
19891031.5%
All other build years (seven years, each under 1%)60.1%

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 MINI 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.

What a Mini (classic) fails on

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

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment25.4%
Noise, emissions and leaks17.1%
Suspension15.5%
Brakes13.7%
Body, chassis, structure9.3%
Visibility7.8%
Steering6.4%
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems1.9%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (97.1% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

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

Suspension: 36.6% of advisories36.6%Tyres: 14.9% of advisories14.9%Noise, emissions and leaks: 14.2% of advisories14.2%Brakes: 13.4% of advisories13.4%Body, chassis, structure: 11.4% of advisories11.4%Non-component advisories: 4.3% of advisories
SuspensionTyresNoise, emissions and leaksBrakesBody, chassis, structureNon-component advisories
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CategoryShare of advisories
Suspension36.6%
Tyres14.9%
Noise, emissions and leaks14.2%
Brakes13.4%
Body, chassis, structure11.4%
Non-component advisories4.3%
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.