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Bentley MOT failure rates by model

Bentley cars fail 11.6% of MOT tests. Here is every Bentley model ranked by failure rate, and the item each loses most tests to.

What is the MOT failure rate for Bentley cars?

Across 389,310 MOT tests in the DVSA record, 11.6% of Bentley cars fail. That is 14.1 points below the 25.7% national average across all cars. The Bentley models below are ranked worst to best by failure rate, each with the failure area it loses most tests to.

ModelFailure rateTestsTop failure area
Bentley Eight22.0%7,179Brakes
Bentley T221.4%1,303Brakes
Bentley Turbo21.2%31,739Brakes
Bentley Brooklands18.3%13,162Brakes
Bentley Series17.8%1,692Brakes
Bentley T117.6%1,026Brakes
Bentley Mulsanne14.5%15,777Brakes
Bentley S214.1%1,316Brakes
Bentley Arnage14.0%40,549Brakes
Bentley S314.0%2,090Brakes
Bentley Saloon13.9%1,479Brakes
Bentley Azure11.5%5,905Brakes
Bentley S110.5%1,193Brakes
Bentley Continental9.5%226,796Tyres
Bentley R9.4%1,314Lamps & electrical
Bentley Flying7.1%7,712Tyres
Bentley Bentayga4.7%16,660Tyres

Which Bentley fails its MOT most, and which least?

The Bentley Eight has the highest failure rate at 22.0%, and the Bentley Bentayga the lowest at 4.7%. A higher rate reflects how old and how hard a model tends to be used as much as how it was built, so the oldest models in the range usually sit near the top.

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Sources: DVSA MOT History API: MOT test results and defect data ยท DVSA MOT testing data for Great Britain