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Ford Fiesta

The Fiesta is the single most-tested car model in the UK, with over 1.1 million MOT tests in 2025 alone. Here's what that huge dataset shows.

64.2%

MOT pass rate

Supermini

Segment

Petrol

Fuel types available

Source: Brumble analysis of DVSA's 2025 MOT test year data, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0, based on 1,145,817 tests, the most-tested model in the UK.

What to know

The Fiesta's 64.2% pass rate is below both Ford's own already-below-average brand figure (68.7%) and the national average (72.4%). This is based on the single largest dataset of any model in the country, over 1.1 million tests in 2025 alone, so it's a genuinely robust, representative result rather than a small or skewed sample.

Production of the Fiesta ended in the UK in 2023, so every example on the road now is at least a few years old, and the used market spans a very wide range of condition, from lightly used examples to high-mileage former first cars. Checking a specific car's MOT history matters more here than for almost any other model, given how much variation exists within it.

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