Press and data enquiries

What we hold

Everything comes from named official sources: the DVLA and DfT vehicle records, DVSA's MOT results and recalls, the government's Fuel Finder scheme, DfT traffic and collision data. We work every figure out from those records rather than repeat someone else's summary, and each page names its source and the period it covers.

• 1,149 car models, from 107 makes
• 29.1 million MOT tests analysed, 2025
• 8,137 filling stations, priced twice a day
• 401 council areas, counties, regions and nations
• 999 motorways and A-roads
• 317 driving test centres

Figures you can quote today

These are read from the same data as the pages, when the site was last built, so they match what a reader sees. Follow the link for the working and the source.

• 72.8% of cars passed their MOT first time in 2025, and 7.3% of tests found a dangerous defect.

  DVSA anonymised MOT results, 29,122,953 tests · see the figures

• Pass rates fall with age: 89.5% at 3 years, 58.0% at 15–19 years.

  DVSA anonymised MOT results, 2025 · see the figures

• The average car covers 6,727 miles a year, measured from the odometer readings on consecutive MOT tests.

  DVSA anonymised MOT results, 2025 · see the figures

• Our Reliability Score rates 401 models against what cars of the same age and mileage do at their MOT, where 50 is as expected. Among models with 20,000 tests or more, the Porsche 911 scores 82 and the DS DS3 23.

  UK Motoring Reliability Score · see the figures

• The UK average is 173.9p a litre for petrol and 198.9p for diesel, from the prices 8,137 forecourts reported to the government's Fuel Finder scheme.

  Fuel Finder, read 16 October 2026 · see the figures

The Reliability Score is our own measure and is not published anywhere else. It compares a model's MOT failures with what cars of the same age and mileage record, so an old car is not marked down for being old. How it is worked out: our methodology (the Porsche 911 and the DS DS3 pages show their own).

Using our figures

Our statistics are free to use in your reporting, in print, online or on air. We ask for a credit, and a link where the format allows one.

The underlying datasets are public. Most are Crown copyright and published under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and each one is named, with its licence, on our data sources and attribution pages. Some figures are our own calculation rather than a published statistic: the Reliability Score, age-matched pass rates, and annual mileage worked out from odometer readings. The method for each is set out on our methodology page.

Charts and tables can be screenshotted and used with the same credit. If you need a figure in a particular shape, ask.

Ask us for a cut we have not published

The site shows a fraction of what is in the data. We hold the underlying records, so we can usually answer a specific question in a day.

• A figure for one town, council, constituency or postcode area.
• One model, one model year, or a list ranked however you need it.
• What a group of cars fails its MOT on, and how that has changed.
• Fuel prices on a given day, by area, brand or road.
• A local version of a national story, for a regional title.

We do not charge for this, and we do not ask for copy approval. If a figure turns out to be wrong we will say so and correct it.

Who we are

UK Motoring is published by Simply Quote Comparison Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales. Chris Richards is the founder of UK Motoring, a free site that brings together official data on Britain’s cars, roads and fuel so drivers can find it in one place. He is also behind SimplyQuote, the insurance comparison site at SimplyQuote.co.uk. Journalists can reach him, or the editorial team, at hello@ukmotoring.co.uk or through the contact page, where "Press or media" is one of the subjects.

We are independent of the DVLA, DVSA and the Department for Transport. The site is free and is paid for by insurance comparison links, which are labelled where they appear; that has no bearing on what the figures say.

Author pages: Chris Richards and the UK Motoring editorial team. MOT figures on this page cover 2025.