Aprilia Mille: MOT pass rate by registration year

Which Mille years pass first time, and which fall short of the model's 84.2% average, from 950 DVSA tests.

2000

highest-passing year · 86.3%

2003

lowest-passing year · 82.3%

4.0pp

spread across 5 years

Pass rate by registration year

first-time pass rate · cohorts with 50 or more tests · registration year from first use date

Highest pass rate: 2000 (86.3% of 161 tests). Lowest: 2003 (82.3% of 113).

Registered	Tests	First-time pass	vs model (84.2%)
1999	81	82.7%	-1.5 pp
2000	161	86.3%	+2.1 pp
2001	228	85.1%	+0.9 pp
2002	339	82.6%	-1.6 pp
2003	113	82.3%	-1.9 pp

Older cohorts are survivors: the worst examples have already left the road, which tends to lift the earliest years. A first-time MOT pass is a roadworthiness check, not a full mechanical inspection.

Pass rate over time

first-time pass rate by test year · 2006–2022

Questions

Which Mille years have the lowest MOT pass rate?: none: no registration year of the Aprilia Mille falls more than two points under the model's 84.2% overall pass rate.
Which Mille year has the highest MOT pass rate?: 2000, at 86.3% of 161 first tests (2005–2025).
How much does the Mille pass rate vary by year?: 4.0 percentage points between the highest (2000, 86.3%) and lowest (2003, 82.3%) cohorts with at least 50 tests. Older cohorts are survivors: the worst examples have already left the road, which tends to lift the earliest years.

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