Used-car ranking 2008

Large traders who sell used cars at auction are firstly car dealers and secondly used car buyers. Cars listed by dealers are the ones they bought from their individual clients. These are the cars clients traded-in to use it as a part of the finance to purchase a new car. Japanese people have a weakness for dealers of leading manufacturer brands such as “Toyota”, “Nissan” and “Honda” and when a Japanese person buys a car, about 70% would buy it from a dealer. This is the reason why the numbers of cars from dealers listed at auction is the highest. Next highest are used car traders. Because the prices dealers give their customers are usually low, if they are after the top dollars, they go around a number of used-car buyer shops that buy cars for cash, compare their offers and sell the cars to the one who gave them the highest price. (If they are not happy with the prices, then they come to JPC and ask us to sell them at auction on their behalf.)

The largest used car buyer shop, Gulliver International announced the types of vehicle they had bought in 2008.

When a car is ranked high, it of course means that there are many of them around but it also means that they are popular in the used-car market and they are sort-after vehicles. Lots of people wanting the cars means that the cars are good quality and popular: so you can use this ranking when you buy a new car. It would be a wise thing to do in regard to a car holding its resale value.

Let’s check the ranking.
1) Suzuki Wagon R
2) Daihatsu Move
3) Honda Fit
4) Honda Odyssey
5) Honda Life
6) Honda Step Wagon
7) Toyota Estima
8) Toyota Vitz
9) Nissan Elgrand
10) Toyota Hilux Surf

Suzuki Wagon R has been the top throughout the year. An accumulated total of more than 3 million cars were sold. Being a compact car, they are easy to handle; which eventually leads to them to be the most common car in Japan at the moment.
The second ranking was the Move, another compact car. It means surely more and more people are buying compact cars. Also more compact cars like the Fit are ranked high and new generation compact cars are now moving over to the second generation. This is, as a result of the numbers of the compact cars increasing in the market but it means that the trend is steadily moving towards eco cars.

From now on, eco cars such as hybrid cars are expected to be ranked high, I recommend you to buy an eco car when you are buying a new car.

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