Suzuki MOT pass rates by model
Every completed first-attempt MOT on a class-4 Suzuki in Great Britain in 2025 — 436,545 tests, covering Suzuki's cars and its car-derived vans and pickups. How they age, and how each model compares, computed by SortedCars from the official DVSA record of every test.
How many Suzuki cars are still on the road?
At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 529,975 Suzuki cars that were taxed or on SORN: 479,471 taxed and 50,504 on SORN (Statutory Off Road Notification — kept, but declared off the road by the keeper), so 90.5% of them were taxed. DVLA lists 42 named Suzuki car models, counted across the whole United Kingdom. A further 1,399 taxed Suzuki cars are on the register with no model name recorded; they are in the totals here and under no model below. These are counts of cars, not tests, and cars only: vans, pickups and motorhomes are recorded as goods vehicles or motor caravans in the licensing data and are not in these figures, whereas the MOT figures above include Suzuki's car-derived vans and pickups. The model table below carries the count for each model DVLA records under a name of its own.
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; the make totals include cars recorded with no model name, the model figures exclude them. 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 Suzuki cars age
First-time pass rate by vehicle age, Suzuki vs all cars, 2025.
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| Age (years) | Suzuki tests | Suzuki pass rate | All cars |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 18,443 | 92.8% | 88.5% |
| 4 | 21,154 | 91.3% | 87.2% |
| 5 | 19,342 | 89.8% | 86.0% |
| 6 | 33,714 | 87.1% | 83.5% |
| 7 | 36,747 | 82.7% | 80.9% |
| 8 | 38,236 | 80.5% | 78.2% |
| 9 | 35,666 | 78.8% | 74.9% |
| 10 | 31,639 | 76.3% | 71.9% |
| 11 | 33,474 | 70.1% | 68.6% |
| 12 | 28,894 | 67.5% | 65.8% |
| 13 | 20,991 | 64.5% | 63.5% |
| 14 | 16,096 | 61.7% | 61.2% |
| 15 | 15,419 | 58.3% | 59.3% |
| 16 | 17,595 | 57.4% | 58.3% |
| 17 | 13,275 | 54.6% | 57.2% |
| 18 | 12,941 | 53.7% | 57.4% |
| 19 | 9,059 | 53.6% | 57.0% |
| 20 | 8,414 | 55.8% | 57.6% |
Better or worse than the average car?
Suzuki's pass rate minus the all-cars pass rate at each age, in percentage points. Bars above zero: Suzuki beats the average car of that age. Below zero: it trails.
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| Age (years) | Gap (points) |
|---|---|
| 3 | +4.3 |
| 4 | +4.1 |
| 5 | +3.8 |
| 6 | +3.6 |
| 7 | +1.8 |
| 8 | +2.3 |
| 9 | +3.9 |
| 10 | +4.4 |
| 11 | +1.5 |
| 12 | +1.7 |
| 13 | +1.0 |
| 14 | +0.5 |
| 15 | -1.0 |
| 16 | -0.9 |
| 17 | -2.6 |
| 18 | -3.7 |
| 19 | -3.4 |
| 20 | -1.8 |
The Suzuki fleet on the road, by age
How many Suzuki cars of each age took a first MOT in 2025 — the shape of the Suzuki fleet still in use.
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| Age (years) | First tests |
|---|---|
| 3 | 18,443 |
| 4 | 21,154 |
| 5 | 19,342 |
| 6 | 33,714 |
| 7 | 36,747 |
| 8 | 38,236 |
| 9 | 35,666 |
| 10 | 31,639 |
| 11 | 33,474 |
| 12 | 28,894 |
| 13 | 20,991 |
| 14 | 16,096 |
| 15 | 15,419 |
| 16 | 17,595 |
| 17 | 13,275 |
| 18 | 12,941 |
| 19 | 9,059 |
| 20 | 8,414 |
What a Suzuki fails on
Where the failure items land when a Suzuki fails or needs a fix at test, 2025. Every make has a signature — this is Suzuki's.
Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (97.9% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.
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The advisories to watch
Where testers most often write "keep an eye on this" on a Suzuki, 2025 — the faults in the post.
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| Category | Share of advisories |
|---|---|
| Brakes | 31.3% |
| Tyres | 28.1% |
| Suspension | 23.4% |
| Non-component advisories | 5.5% |
| Body, chassis, structure | 4.1% |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 2.8% |
Petrol, diesel or hybrid Suzuki?
First-time pass rate for the three most-tested fuel types, 2025, against the all-cars average. Fleet ages differ by fuel — newer fleets help the electrified bars.
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| Fuel | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| Petrol | 356,174 | 71.1% |
| Hybrid electric | 63,740 | 90.3% |
| Diesel | 16,598 | 63.8% |
What mileage is normal for a Suzuki?
Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, all Suzuki class-4 vehicles, 2025. The line is the typical (median) Suzuki; the shaded band holds the middle half. A car far outside the band, in either direction, is worth questions the recorded history can answer.
Mileage values are midpoints of 2,500-mile bands.
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| Age (years) | Lower quarter | Typical (median) | Upper quarter |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 13,750 | 18,750 | 28,750 |
| 4 | 16,250 | 23,750 | 36,250 |
| 5 | 18,750 | 28,750 | 41,250 |
| 6 | 23,750 | 36,250 | 48,750 |
| 7 | 28,750 | 41,250 | 56,250 |
| 8 | 33,750 | 48,750 | 63,750 |
| 9 | 38,750 | 56,250 | 73,750 |
| 10 | 41,250 | 58,750 | 78,750 |
| 11 | 41,250 | 61,250 | 81,250 |
| 12 | 46,250 | 63,750 | 86,250 |
| 13 | 51,250 | 71,250 | 93,750 |
| 14 | 56,250 | 76,250 | 98,750 |
| 15 | 58,750 | 78,750 | 101,250 |
| 16 | 58,750 | 81,250 | 103,750 |
| 17 | 68,750 | 91,250 | 111,250 |
| 18 | 68,750 | 91,250 | 113,750 |
| 19 | 66,250 | 88,750 | 111,250 |
| 20 | 61,250 | 83,750 | 108,750 |
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Every Suzuki model in the data
First-time pass rate per model, 2025. Every model with at least 2,000 tests is listed — all 14 of them, ordered by number of tests; models with 5,000+ tests link to their own page. All trims and variants are grouped under one model name; models marked (van) or (car and van) are tested in the same class-4 MOT. Pass rates are unadjusted for age: models with older fleets sit lower. The last three columns are the number of that model on DVLA's register at the end of 2025 — taxed, on SORN, and the taxed share — from the licensing statistics rather than the MOT record. They are left blank for vans, pickups and car-and-van models, which the licensing data counts as goods vehicles rather than cars, and for models DVLA does not record under a name of their own. DVLA's model groupings do not always draw the line where the MOT grouping does; each model page says what its count covers.
| Model | Tests 2025 | Pass rate | Taxed, end 2025 | SORN, end 2025 | Taxed share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swift | 135,247 | 72.3% | 155,407 | 8,184 | 95.0% |
| Vitara | 72,087 | 84.5% | 82,151 | 5,695 | 93.5% |
| Alto | 45,475 | 64.7% | 43,875 | 3,720 | 92.2% |
| SX4 | 37,487 | 69.1% | 59,073 | 1,766 | 97.1% |
| Ignis | 31,532 | 81.0% | 35,673 | 2,268 | 94.0% |
| Celerio | 27,263 | 82.9% | 27,209 | 454 | 98.4% |
| Jimny | 23,411 | 69.6% | 20,509 | 8,505 | 70.7% |
| Grand Vitara | 18,202 | 62.3% | 17,029 | 12,097 | 58.5% |
| Splash | 16,969 | 61.6% | 16,527 | 646 | 96.2% |
| Baleno | 6,685 | 73.5% | 6,497 | 402 | 94.2% |
| Wagon R | 6,448 | 56.0% | 5,675 | 2,447 | 69.9% |
| S-Cross | 5,605 | 91.8% | — | — | — |
| Carry (van) | 3,670 | 58.2% | — | — | — |
| Swace | 3,216 | 90.1% | 4,542 | 34 | 99.3% |
Suzuki models ranked by pass rate
All twelve grouped Suzuki car models with 5,000 or more first tests in 2025, highest first-time pass rate first — the full field at that floor. Only models sold purely as cars are ranked; van and pickup models appear in the table above but are not ranked among cars. Pass rates are unadjusted for fleet age — a model whose fleet runs older sits lower for that reason alone. Neighbouring rows can be effectively level, and models sharing a published rate share a rank.
| Rank | Model | Tests 2025 | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Suzuki S-Cross | 5,605 | 91.8% |
| 2 | Suzuki Vitara | 72,087 | 84.5% |
| 3 | Suzuki Celerio | 27,263 | 82.9% |
| 4 | Suzuki Ignis | 31,532 | 81.0% |
| 5 | Suzuki Baleno | 6,685 | 73.5% |
| 6 | Suzuki Swift | 135,247 | 72.3% |
| 7 | Suzuki Jimny | 23,411 | 69.6% |
| 8 | Suzuki SX4 | 37,487 | 69.1% |
| 9 | Suzuki Alto | 45,475 | 64.7% |
| 10 | Suzuki Grand Vitara | 18,202 | 62.3% |
| 11 | Suzuki Splash | 16,969 | 61.6% |
| 12 | Suzuki Wagon R | 6,448 | 56.0% |
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