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First acceleration
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GOOD news for used car sellers as March marked the first acceleration in UK used car price growth in 10 months.
The current average value of a used car is up 2.3 per cent year onyear and 0.7 per cent month on month.
According to the latest data from the Auto Trader Retail Price Index, the current average retail price of a used car in March is £17,720, which is up 2.3 per cent on a year onyear (YoY) and like forlike basis.
Increasing from the 1.3 per cent YoY increase recorded in February, it marks the first acceleration in the rate of YoY price growth in 10 months, having gradually slowed from the all time high of 32.2 per cent YoY in
USED CARS: Prices are at last increasing.
April 2022. At a month on month (MoM) level, March to date is up 0.7 per cent on February’s average prices, marking the third consecutive MoM increase after the typical seasonal slowdown over the festive period.
It’s well ahead of the 0.1 per cent MoM growth recorded in both March 2022 and 2021, as well as the prepandemic average contraction of 0.4 per cent MoM recorded in March between 2011 and 2019.
6 months to build a Rolls Royce, 13 hours to build a Toyota.
Electric vehicles - the future?
WITH the new Fisker Ocean achieving an official longest range on a single charge, is there a future for electric cars in Spain?
The Fisker Ocean has achieved the highest range of any electric SUV in an official WLTP (Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicle Test Procedure) test, having achieved 440 miles with its rangetopping Extreme specification. That would take you from London to Glasgow on a single charge.
With this emerging innovative technology and the lack of available charges in Spain could this latest news help Spanish residents decide on whether to finally take the plunge and a purchase an electric car?
The Fisker Ocean is being built in Austria and will go on sale at the end of April for around €40,000. With top models also having solar panels on the roof to provide more power in sunny conditions, this could be the ideal car model for Spain.
UK diesel drivers including almost everyone who runs a van for a small business are continuing to suffer from inflated prices at fuel pumps up and down the country and are seeing no benefit from plummeting lower wholesale costs, despite the Chancellor continuing the fuel duty freeze in the latest Budget, the RAC is warning.
Despite both crude oil and wholesale diesel costs (the prices retailers pay for the fuel) reaching their lowest points in 15 months, major retailers are still refusing to cut pump prices in any meaningful way.
Looking at the last four weeks alone, wholesale prices have come down another 10p yet this has yielded just a 3p cut at the pumps (168.85p to 165.89p on March 22).
What’s more, the gap between the wholesale cost of
Abandoned cars!
