Vincent Rapide: MOT pass rate by registration year

Which Rapide years pass first time, and which fall short of the model's 94.7% average, from 1,574 DVSA tests.

1953

highest-passing year · 96.9%

1949

lowest-passing year · 93.4%

3.5pp

spread across 9 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: 1953 (96.9% of 127 tests). Lowest: 1949 (93.4% of 196).

Registered	Tests	First-time pass	vs model (94.7%)
1947	74	95.9%	+1.2 pp
1948	127	96.1%	+1.4 pp
1949	196	93.4%	-1.3 pp
1950	270	94.1%	-0.6 pp
1951	307	93.5%	-1.2 pp
1952	188	95.7%	+1.0 pp
1953	127	96.9%	+2.2 pp
1954	95	95.8%	+1.1 pp
1955	63	93.7%	-1.0 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 · 2005–2012

Questions

Which Rapide years have the lowest MOT pass rate?: none: no registration year of the Vincent Rapide falls more than two points under the model's 94.7% overall pass rate.
Which Rapide year has the highest MOT pass rate?: 1953, at 96.9% of 127 first tests (2005–2025).
How much does the Rapide pass rate vary by year?: 3.5 percentage points between the highest (1953, 96.9%) and lowest (1949, 93.4%) 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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