Used car rankings from MOT data
Most reliable 10 year old hybrid cars by MOT fail rate
We ranked 17 hybrid cars by the share of MOT tests they failed at 10 years old, against 21.2% for all hybrid cars that age. From 160,403 DVSA MOT tests in Great Britain, 2022 to 2025.
MOT data updated
First in this list (n=1,348)10.0%
All hybrid cars, same age21.2%
Ranked17
MOT tests used160,403
First in this list: Lexus GS (hybrid).
How this ranking works
- Data: DVSA anonymised MOT test data, class 4 normal tests in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), 2022 to 2025. Northern Ireland tests its cars separately and is not included. A fail is a test marked fail or passed after a repair at the test station.
- Measure: share of MOTs failed by cars 10 years old (test year minus first-use year).
- Comparison: all hybrid cars means every class 4 MOT test on hybrid except vans, pickups, taxis, campers, van-based people carriers, motorhome and minibus bases and used imports, weighted to each row's own mix of ages.
- Thresholds: every age behind a row here has at least 1,000 tests (we use 5,000 when a list stays long enough, and it would not here). A model generation is ranked only with at least 3 ages of 1,000 tests or more. A list is published only with at least 10 ranked rows.
- Fuel: as DVSA records it on each test. Each row is one model generation on hybrid; where a model is also sold with other fuels, the row is named with the fuel and its figures differ from the model's all-fuel MOT page. DVSA's hybrid category covers mild, full and plug-in hybrids alike.
- Vans, pickups, taxis, campers, van-based people carriers, motorhome and minibus bases, and models sold here mainly as used imports are left out of car lists.
- Years in brackets are the first-use years of a model generation.
The ranking
| # | Model | MOT fail rate | All hybrid cars, same age | Tests (n) | Median mileage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lexus GS (hybrid)Common problems · Recalls · ULEZ | 10.0% | 21.2% | 1,348 | 75,400 miles |
| 2 | Lexus NXCommon problems · Recalls · ULEZ | 13.8% | 21.2% | 3,808 | 73,400 miles |
| 3 | Lexus RX (hybrid)Common problems · Recalls · ULEZ | 14.6% | 21.2% | 6,500 | 78,400 miles |
| 4 | Audi A3 (hybrid)Common problems · Recalls · ULEZ | 14.7% | 21.2% | 1,163 | 83,200 miles |
| 5 | Honda Jazz (hybrid)Common problems · Recalls · ULEZ | 15.1% | 21.2% | 2,558 | 53,600 miles |
| 6 | Lexus IS (hybrid)Common problems · Recalls · ULEZ | 15.1% | 21.2% | 7,108 | 84,700 miles |
| 7 | Lexus CT (hybrid)Common problems · ULEZ | 17.2% | 21.2% | 13,808 | 77,900 miles |
| 8 | Volkswagen Golf (hybrid)Common problems · Recalls · ULEZ | 17.7% | 21.2% | 1,251 | 83,300 miles |
| 9 | BMW i3 (hybrid)Common problems · Recalls · ULEZ | 18.2% | 21.2% | 2,212 | 66,100 miles |
| 10 | Mercedes-Benz C-Class (hybrid)Common problems · Recalls · ULEZ | 18.9% | 21.2% | 2,132 | 104,000 miles |
| 11 | Toyota Prius+Common problems | 20.8% | 21.2% | 2,068 | 157,400 miles |
| 12 | Toyota PriusCommon problems · Recalls | 22.4% | 21.2% | 46,029 | 160,500 miles |
| 13 | Honda Insight (hybrid) (from 2009)Common problems · Recalls · ULEZ | 22.5% | 21.2% | 1,595 | 113,200 miles |
| 14 | Toyota Auris (hybrid)Common problems · Recalls · ULEZ | 22.9% | 21.2% | 28,485 | 86,600 miles |
| 15 | Toyota Yaris (hybrid)Common problems · Recalls · ULEZ | 23.0% | 21.2% | 25,476 | 57,900 miles |
| 16 | Mercedes-Benz E-Class (hybrid)Common problems · Recalls · ULEZ | 23.5% | 21.2% | 2,540 | 113,000 miles |
| 17 | Mitsubishi Outlander (hybrid)Common problems · Recalls · ULEZ | 28.0% | 21.2% | 12,322 | 93,300 miles |
What stands out
- Lexus GS (hybrid) has the lowest MOT fail rate in this list: 10.0% (n=1,348), against 21.2% for all hybrid cars that age.
- 11 of the 17 ranked hybrid cars fail less often than all hybrid cars at the same age.
- In the 17 shown, the fail rate runs from 10.0% to 28.0%.
Read this with care. A fail rate is not a measure of build quality. How far cars are driven, how they are used and how well owners maintain them all change it, and wear items such as tyres and brake pads are common fails. Compare a model only with cars of the same age. Methodology and limits.
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Source
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data, class 4 normal MOT tests, 2022 to 2025. MOT data updated 28 September 2026.
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