According to Cartell.ie there was a considerable increase in used car transactions towards the end of 2013 in comparison to the same period in 2012.
A substantial 474,418 vehicles changed hands in the last six months of 2013 in comparison to 408,784 the year before.
Indeed, Cartell also discovered that the busiest day of the year for used car sales was the 1st of October, with 7,231 transactions.
That’s somewhat higher than the day before, which, with 5,730 sales, was the second busiest day.
Cartell puts this spike down to new Government rules regarding the declaration of unused vehicles off the-road ahead of time, but even so, the data reveals that Tuesdays are by far the most popular day on which to close a deal. Seven out of the 10 busiest days of the whole year were a Tuesday.
In terms of new car sales, 2013 represented the first introduction of a two-plate system.
New cars registered between January and the end of June 2013 carried the prefix ‘131’ (e.g. 131 D 4555), while those for the latter half of the year used the ‘132’ prefix.
Carzone’s previous report revealed mixed views on the introduction of this strategy to even out sales throughout the year and though little effect was expected for 2013, there was a spike in new car sales in July.
Admittedly, that increase in sales (11,620 new cars were sold in July) was preceded by a distinct drop in the previous month’s numbers, and overall the last six months of 2013 only accounted for 28.4% of the market, at 21,075 units sold.
At the time of writing, a distinct improvement was recorded for the start of 2014, with 35,605 cars sold in the first two months of the year. That’s a 28% increase year-on-year.
