Volkswagen Taigo MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Volkswagen Taigo in Great Britain in 2025 — 6,095 tests. Figures cover every Taigo first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the Taigo ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
88.8%
16.5 points above the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
6,095
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
4.5%
of Taigo first tests; national 7.3%

How many Volkswagen Taigo cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 28,710 Volkswagen Taigo cars that were taxed or on SORN: 28,603 taxed and 107 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. Volkswagen Taigo vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
28,603
99.6% of the 28,710 Taigo cars taxed or on SORN; 10 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
107
declared off the road by their keepers — 0.4% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed Taigo cars is still rising: 28,603 at the end of 2025, up 6,288 (28.2%) on the end of 2024, and the highest in the years shown. Cars on SORN went from 15 at the end of 2022 to 107 at the end of 2025, up 613.3%. 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 Taigo cars, year by year

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

010k20k30k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Taxed Taigo cars, year 2014: 0Taxed Taigo cars, year 2015: 0Taxed Taigo cars, year 2016: 0Taxed Taigo cars, year 2017: 0Taxed Taigo cars, year 2018: 0Taxed Taigo cars, year 2019: 0Taxed Taigo cars, year 2020: 0Taxed Taigo cars, year 2021: 0Taxed Taigo cars, year 2022: 6kTaxed Taigo cars, year 2023: 14kTaxed Taigo cars, year 2024: 22kTaxed Taigo cars, year 2025: 29k29k
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YearTaxed Taigo cars
20140
20150
20160
20170
20180
20190
20200
20210
20225,590
202314,018
202422,315
202528,603

Taigo 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.

0501001502014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Taigo cars on SORN, year 2014: 0Taigo cars on SORN, year 2015: 0Taigo cars on SORN, year 2016: 0Taigo cars on SORN, year 2017: 0Taigo cars on SORN, year 2018: 0Taigo cars on SORN, year 2019: 0Taigo cars on SORN, year 2020: 0Taigo cars on SORN, year 2021: 0Taigo cars on SORN, year 2022: 15Taigo cars on SORN, year 2023: 41Taigo cars on SORN, year 2024: 138Taigo cars on SORN, year 2025: 107107
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YearTaigo cars on SORN
20140
20150
20160
20170
20180
20190
20200
20210
202215
202341
2024138
2025107

Which model years survive

Taxed Taigo cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 28,603 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 Taigo cars
20256,36322.2%
20248,49129.7%
20238,40629.4%
20225,34318.7%

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 TAIGO 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 Taigo ages

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

Volkswagen TaigoAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Volkswagen Taigo, vehicle age 3: 88.7%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%Volkswagen Taigo 88.7%All cars 57.6%
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Age (years)Taigo testsTaigo pass rateAll cars
35,62288.7%88.5%

Better or worse than the average car?

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

Taigo ahead
-2-1+0+1+2Age 3: +0.2 points vs the average car3Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
3+0.2

The Taigo fleet on the road, by age

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

01k3k4k6kAge 3: 5k3Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
35,622

What a Taigo fails on

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

Tyres31.7%
Brakes25.5%
Visibility15.6%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment9.1%
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems8.4%
Suspension4.9%
Noise, emissions and leaks1.6%
Identification of the vehicle1.4%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (98.2% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

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

Tyres: 47.8% of advisories47.8%Brakes: 37.6% of advisories37.6%Non-component advisories: 11.6% of advisories11.6%Suspension: 1.4% of advisoriesIdentification of the vehicle: 1.0% of advisoriesRoad Wheels: 0.2% of advisories
TyresBrakesNon-component advisoriesSuspensionIdentification of the vehicleRoad Wheels
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CategoryShare of advisories
Tyres47.8%
Brakes37.6%
Non-component advisories11.6%
Suspension1.4%
Identification of the vehicle1.0%
Road Wheels0.2%

More vehicles we've checked

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.