2019 Alfa Romeo Giulia: MOT pass rate and reliability

88.4% of 2019 Alfa Romeo Giulias pass the MOT first time, measured across 1,482 DVSA tests on that model year alone. The average one had covered 39,042 miles.

How the 2019 compares

  • Against all Alfa Romeo Giulias (87.4%, 6,077 tests): +1 points
  • Against all 2019 cars (87.9%): +0.5 points
  • National first-time pass rate, all cars and years: 77%

Every Alfa Romeo Giulia model year

Pass rates fall as cars age, so the only fair comparison for a 2019 car is other cars of the same age. The full run for the Alfa Romeo Giulia:

Year Pass rate Tests Avg mileage
2017 85.3% 1,995 58,008
2018 87.9% 1,583 50,763
2019 88.4% 1,482 39,042
2020 90.9% 623 30,855

What this means if you are buying a 2019 Giulia

The 2019 sits close to the Alfa Romeo Giulia average, so there is no strong model-year signal either way. Judge the individual car on its own history. Check the exact car with the free MOT history checker before you buy, and run its VIN and mileage through our free VIN decoder and clocking check.

What a 7-year-old car fails on

A 2019 car is 7 years old now, and age drives the failure mix more than the badge does. Across all cars tested, these are the categories that actually cause failures:

  • Lights and electrical: 10.36% of all cars tested
  • Suspension: 8.65% of all cars tested
  • Tyres: 6.23% of all cars tested
  • Brakes: 6.1% of all cars tested
  • Visibility: wipers, washers, glass: 4.65% of all cars tested
  • Body, chassis and structure: 3.18% of all cars tested

That is below average for a car this age, worth a mileage-consistency check since an unusually low reading is sometimes clocking rather than luck. On a 2019 Alfa Romeo Giulia the average at test was 39,042 miles, so treat anything far above that as a car that has worked harder than its peers, and anything far below as one worth checking for the faults that come from standing still.

The strongest year for this model is 2020 at 90.9%, and the weakest in our data is 2017 at 85.3%. That 5.6 point spread across the model's life is why comparing a 2019 car against a newer one tells you very little.

Nearby model years

All Alfa Romeo Giulia MOT data · Every model