2020 Ford Kuga St-Line X Edition Ecoblue: MOT pass rate and reliability
88.5% of 2020 Ford Kuga St-Line X Edition Ecoblues pass the MOT first time, measured across 312 DVSA tests on that model year alone. The average one had covered 34,757 miles.
How the 2020 compares
- Against all Ford Kuga St-Line X Edition Ecoblues (91.1%, 2,004 tests): -2.6 points
- Against all 2020 cars (89.4%): -0.9 points
- National first-time pass rate, all cars and years: 77%
Every Ford Kuga St-Line X Edition Ecoblue model year
Pass rates fall as cars age, so the only fair comparison for a 2020 car is other cars of the same age. The full run for the Ford Kuga St-Line X Edition Ecoblue:
| Year | Pass rate | Tests | Avg mileage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 88.5% | 312 | 34,757 |
| 2021 | 91.5% | 1,620 | 27,404 |
What this means if you are buying a 2020 Kuga St-Line X Edition Ecoblue
The 2020 is a weaker year for this model, passing 2.6 points less often than the Ford Kuga St-Line X Edition Ecoblue average. Some of that is simply age, so compare it against the 2020 figure for all cars above rather than against newer examples. 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 6-year-old car fails on
A 2020 car is 6 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 2020 Ford Kuga St-Line X Edition Ecoblue the average at test was 34,757 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 2021 at 91.5%, and the weakest in our data is 2020 at 88.5%. That 3.0 point spread across the model's life is why comparing a 2020 car against a newer one tells you very little.
Nearby model years
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