GordonH605 wrote on Fri Sep 30, 2022 3:25pm:
I've heard this explanation before but doesn't make much sense to me. Cars stopped going rusty in the UK decades ago.
I think used cars in the UK are relatively cheap because dealers and manufacturers are constantly inventing ways of selling new cars (with 'Personal Contract Plans' being the current one), thus increasing the supply of used cars and reducing demand for them. Cars are also much more of a sta...
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...tus symbol in the UK than they are in Spain, which also makes new ones more desirable than used.
Thank you for your explanation to my original post. What you describe makes much more sense than just the weather. As I live in the UK I believed the price that I was suggesting was pretty reasonable for a runaround car which I might use 5 or 6 times a year, keep it maintained taxed and insured and securely parked.