When buying a car we try to make the right choice by finding the perfect model that will be best suited to us.

We can make sure we choose one that we like the colour of, one that drives well and will fit all our belongings in but we never know how lucky or unlucky the car will be when it comes to needing repairs until it happens.

Motoring experts at Bill Plant Driving School have revealed which car models have the best MOT pass rate in the UK and the most UK’s most common faults car faults by analysing search data from 2018 to 2022.

While there’s a variety of car models included in the top 10 list, one that narrowly missed out was the Honda I10 with more than 190,000 MOTs carried out and over 150,000 having passed, an overall pass rate of 76.13%.

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The research also shows that since 2018 the engine has caused the most car faults in the UK with the second most common being brakes.

Top 10 UK car models with the highest UK MOT pass rate

Here’s the top 10 list with the rank, car make and model followed by total tests, total tests passed and the pass rate.

  1. Peugeot 108 – 54,700 tests, 46,986 passes, 85.90% pass rate
  2. Mini Cooper – 114,467 tests, 96,988 passes, 84.73% pass rate
  3. Skoda Citigo – 41,978 tests, 35,240 passes, 83.95% pass rate
  4. VW UP – 95,632 tests, 80,253 passes, 83.92% pass rate
  5. Seat MII – 14,758 tests, 12,029 passes, 81.51% pass rate
  6. MG 3 – 10,034 tests, 8,115 passes, 80.88% pass rate
  7. Peugeot 208 – 125,519 tests, 100,727 passes, 80.25% pass rate
  8. Ford B Max – 54,284 tests, 43,187 passes, 79.56% pass rate
  9. Toyota Aygo – 191,892 tests, 146,339 passes, 76.26% pass rate
  10. Hyundai I10 – 198,871 tests, 151,398 passes, 76.13% pass rate

Top 10 most common UK car faults

Here’s a list of the top 10 most common car faults followed by the number of Google searches from June 2018 to May 2022.

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  1. Engine – 567,030
  2. Brake – 144,790
  3. Seat belt – 104,750
  4. Clutch – 68,180
  5. Steering – 64,570
  6. Battery – 48,760
  7. Windshield – 43,310
  8. Gear box – 31,400
  9. Emission – 31,210
  10. Ignition – 21,140

You can view the full research via the Bill Plant Driving School website.