All generations and engines together · 3,533 MOT tests in the 2025 data
Computed from DVSA MOT results, all of Great Britain, 2025. Nothing here is opinion.
Share of tests where each item was recorded. The dark tick is the class average across all tracked models; bars are scaled within each group.
The rows that judge the model rather than its keeper. 3,533 tests in this band.
Tyres, pads and stone chips say more about how the car was driven and maintained than about how it was built.
Owner folklore from forums and the motoring press. Most of it never shows up in an MOT, which is why this section exists at all.
The E-Tech hybrid's clutchless automatic can get confused at low speed, hunting for the right gear and lurching or kangarooing as it hands over between electric and petrol drive. Auto Express and Honest John both flag it as a driving-experience gripe from new rather than something that wears in, but one Honest John reader on a six-month-old car reported it alongside unexplained warning lights and an electrical fault the dealer could not trace. No manufacturer acknowledgement or fix has surfaced.
A Honest John reader reported the automatic gearbox failing to shift down properly on hills, causing the engine to over-rev, on a fairly young car. The dealer treated it as a one-off and declined to deal with it under warranty rather than treating it as a known fault, so it is not clear how widespread this is. Worth a proper hill test on any test drive.
More than one owner report describes random warning lights and, in one case, a car left stranded by an electrical fault the dealer's diagnostics could not pin down. It is the kind of intermittent gremlin that is hard to reproduce at a pre-purchase check and does not show up as an MOT advisory. Treat any dash warning light history, even if currently off, as worth asking about.
The 9.3in portrait touchscreen has been criticised by both Honest John and Auto Express as laggy, with occasional freezing reported on earlier cars, though reviewers note later software updates have improved it somewhat. It is an annoyance rather than a safety issue, but a frozen screen also means losing the reversing camera and climate controls, which are only accessible through it. Try every menu and pairing a phone before buying.
Regenerative braking on the E-Tech hybrid blends friction and motor braking, and reviewers including Honest John and Parkers have described the pedal as grabby and difficult to modulate smoothly, especially at low speed. That measured MOT signature for this class, brakes, may partly reflect this: a pedal that is awkward to feel out can lead to uneven pad wear or heavier reliance on the discs when drivers overcompensate. It is a driveability complaint first and a wear issue second, so don't assume every brake advisory is neglect.
One documented case had the steering pulling hard to one side together with an engine warning light, resolved only by a steering column replacement costing around £3,000. It is a single well-reported instance rather than a pattern seen across multiple independent sources, so treat it as a possibility to check for rather than a confirmed fault. Feel for any steering pull or heaviness on a test drive.
Built from the two sections above.
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