While the new vehicle market is recovering this year, the same is not true for the used market. In September, with 409,539 registrations, second-hand car sales fell 3.9% compared to the same month last year, according to the Autoscout24 barometer.
2.6 used cars are sold for every new one
Specifically, in September 2.6 used cars were sold for every new one. A ratio that increased to 3.6 in 2021, a record year for the second-hand market, and that remained quite high last year, at 3.35, despite a sharp drop in volumes.
But it is above all in relation to the pre-covid period that the account is not there. In this last month, we have dropped 11.9% compared to September 2019, highlights Autoscout24.
New engines on the rise
Despite a 6% drop, diesel continues to be the majority in sales in September, but symbolically falls below 50%. Gasoline is in second place, with 41% of sales, but also with a drop of 3%.
The barometer thus confirms a significant increase in new engines, with hybrids (+28%), electric (+57%) and LPG (+29%), but between them they represent less than 9% of transactions. A trend that remains quite strong: in vehicles less than five years old (36% of the market), these new engines represented one in five sales.
Prices always at a high level.
At just over 30,000 euros, the prices observed on the AutoScout24.fr site remain at a very high level and remain 6.2% higher than those observed in September 2022. The trend, however, remains oriented towards decrease in the last 6 months.
A point confirmed by an indicator proposed by the Auto1 group, a buying and selling platform among automotive professionals in Europe. Its second-hand professional price index remains fairly stable in September, at 148 (down from a base of 100 in January 2015), but has declined considerably compared to last year, when it topped 170 in some months.
Source: BFM TV
