Vehicle Repair & MOT succession in Scotland

Name: Vehicle Repair & MOT business succession in Scotland
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667 of 2,190 vehicle repair & MOT companies in Scotland — 30.5% — have a director aged 60 or over.

That is the 3rd highest of 9 UK regions for this trade.

Companies measured2,190

Director aged 60+667

Exposure rate30.5%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology

2,190

Companies measured

667

Director 60+

217

Director 70+

30.5%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; vehicle repair & MOT nationally runs at 28.4%.

Measure	Companies
Vehicle Repair & MOT companies in Scotland measured	2,190
Oldest director aged 60 or over	667
Oldest director aged 70 or over	217

Of the 667 with a director over 60, 115 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Vehicle Repair & MOT in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
Wales	452	33.1%
South West	1,012	32.1%
South East	1,502	30.6%
North East	321	30.6%
North West	1,150	29.3%
East of England	971	29.3%
East Midlands	673	26.7%
Northern Ireland	125	26.4%

Other trades in Scotland

Trade	60+	Rate
Lettings	3,930	37.6%
Consultancy Services	3,898	40.8%
Retail	2,680	25.9%
Agriculture	2,266	51.5%
Other Leisure	2,250	32.8%
Investment	2,104	33.7%
Engineering Services	2,065	33.5%
Investment / Fund Management	1,505	40.7%

Combinations with fewer than 250 measured companies are not listed separately. They are still counted in every total on this page.

Next step

This page counts director ages across the whole register. If you are looking to buy rather than to research, our Automotive pages go further: we score each company on business quality and exit timing, and shortlist the ones worth approaching.

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ExitRadar, "Vehicle Repair & MOT succession in Scotland", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/auto-repair/scotland/

Need a cut that is not published here — a different trade grouping, a finer geography, or the underlying distribution? Get in touch and we will usually provide it. Methodology.

Method. Figures cover the 3,475,770 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director — 93.8% of the 3,706,712 companies on the active register. A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over — not the board average, which would hide a 70-year-old founder sitting alongside younger co-directors. The business-quality figure covers only the subset our model assesses — see the methodology for why that is far smaller than the number with filed accounts. Data as at 13 August 2026; updated quarterly, next update October 2026. Full methodology.