Used car guide · 2000–2008

TVR Tuscan common problems and MOT failures

What goes wrong on a used TVR Tuscan, year by year: known faults from UK buying guides, the parts flagged at MOT more than on other cars (from 2,340 MOTs done during 2023–2025), and what to check before you buy one.

2,340MOTs done in 2023–2025, all years of this model

1,138on the UK register

Pick the year

Most years have their own guide. The year is when the car was first registered (it’s on the logbook, or check the reg below).

2008 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000

What usually goes wrong with a TVR Tuscan?

We haven’t found widely reported faults for the TVR Tuscan in the UK buying guides we use yet. That doesn’t mean it has none, so check the car carefully and look at the MOT weak spots below.

TVR Tuscan MOT pass rate by year

Older cars fail more, so compare each year with all cars registered the same year.

Year	Pass first time	All cars that year	MOT tests
2006	90%	56% +34	169 (small sample)
2005	92%	57% +35	265 (small sample)
2004	89%	57% +32	142 (small sample)
2003	91%	57% +34	340 (small sample)
2002	92%	58% +34	395 (small sample)
2001	91%	60% +31	562
2000	88%	61% +27	467 (small sample)

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Where this comes from: MOT figures are the DVSA’s anonymised results for every MOT test done in Great Britain during 2023–2025, grouped by the year each car was first registered. How many are on the road is from the Department for Transport’s vehicle licensing statistics. Known faults are from UK buying guides, in our own words, with links. How we score