In August 2021, used car sales in Spain reported a total of 143,971 units transferred. A volume of sales that, compared to that obtained in the same period of the previous year, represents a decrease of 13.9%.
The second-hand market has moderated its fall in the month of August 2021. The used car sales in Spain they have accounted 143,971 units. If we compare this volume of copies transferred with that obtained in the same period of the previous year, we find a 13.9% drop. And if it is compared with August 2019, the setback is even smaller, only 0.3% respectively.
On the contrary, the accumulated data do report positive figures. In the period between the months of In January and August, used car sales reached 1,260,046 units, 20.8% more than in 2020 and 5% less than in 2019. Taking this evolution into account, forecasts suggest that the market will close the year with a rise of 10.5%, surpassing the barrier of two million units.
The used car gains ground over the new vehicle
The data made public show that during the month of August for each new car, three used ones were sold. It is a very high ratio that is explained by the decline in new car sales. A collapse caused, to a certain extent, by the lack of stock due to the global crisis of components. And during the first eight months of 2021, the VO / VN ratio was 2.1 to 1.
Regarding the sales by seniority brackets, the models with the best performance during August were those between the ages of three and eight, which, from the import channel and the renewal of corporate fleets, rose by 13.8% to reach 13,123 units. Used between three and five years fell 1.4% to 17,616 units.
The sales channels
They blame the lack of supply, which has forced them to resort to foreign markets. The import was the one that lost the least sales during the past month, with a decrease of 10.7%. The renting channel, for its part, fell 15%.
The second-hand electric car continues to grow
Diesel used car operations fell 16.5% in August compared to the same period of the previous year. However, despite this drop, they still represent almost six out of ten operations. Those of gasoline, on the other hand, saw their sales fall by 14.7%. At the other end of the scale we have used electric cars, which maintained their growth. They rose 114% to 683 units. Used plug-in hybrid cars grew by over 200% with 1,051 transferred copies.
Used car sales in Spain in August 2021
The used car sales by autonomous communities report a general decline. Only the Community of Madrid was able to increase its transfers of used vehicles with an increase of 5.3%. The most important setbacks took place in Ceuta (-34.9%), Galicia (-24.0%) and Castilla y León (-21.9%).