{"id":52924,"date":"2025-08-22T12:44:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T11:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/?p=52924"},"modified":"2025-08-22T12:44:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T11:44:37","slug":"used-car-market-still-impacted-by-supply-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/2025\/news\/used-car-market-still-impacted-by-supply-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Used car market still impacted by supply challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/indicata.co.uk\/market-watch\/indicata-market-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New research<\/a> has exposed a continued supply challenges in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/?s=used+cars\">used car market<\/a> with models aged three to four years old reaching a new low in August.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/?s=indicata\">Indicata Market Watch<\/a>, just 23% of all used cars on the market are in the popular three to four-year age bracket.<\/p>\n<p>It says this suggests there are still lingering supply constraints left over from the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the volume of models under two years old has increased to a record high of 31%, with a growing number of nearly new electric vehicles entering the used car ecosystem, while cars older than five years old make up 46% of the used car market in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Dean Merritt, Indicata UK\u2019s head of sales, said: \u201cOur used vehicle data shows just how long it has taken to flush the impact of Covid through our used marketplace. Typically, 36-48-month-old used cars are at the sweet spot of both wholesale and consumer demand from an age, mileage and price perspective and currently demand is exceeding supply.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The data also found that prices have fallen in all categories apart from in the three to four-year category, with economic uncertainty continuing to damage consumer confidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research has exposed a continued supply challenges in the used car market with models aged three to four years old reaching a new low in August. According to Indicata [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":47288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5276,372,3118],"class_list":["post-52924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-indicata","tag-supply-chain","tag-used-cars"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}