the price of 2nd hand cars
 

what is it with the price of 2nd hand motors???? i remember a couple year back being able to pick up a half decent motor with 70k 90k on the clock full mot, history, tax for around 500quid, looking around cars are fetching £300+ more than they used to, and what is it with cars with 200000 miles or more on the clock fetching a grand or more?? i cant understand why people would even look at a motor for 700 with no mot and 150000 on the clock, am talking cars from 1998 thru to 2001, nothing special, passats, xantia, 406, even audi 80, all these diesels and estates, having a change of mind on what to buy seeing as i cant find what am after........bloody scrappage scheme at a guess

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1994-L-AUDI-80...item33571e6b0f

thats an example,

It's down to availability. Because no one's got any money, if they've got a car that's got test and works, they're likely to hang on to it.

Likewise, the scrappage scheme's seeing the death of a lot of decent older cars, you know the score, bought a brand new Audi 80 when they retired in 1998, Audi serviced it from new, now a Kia Picanto makes much more sense to them so squish the Audi and get 2 grand off the Kia.

How about crisis? :) I'll bet even in western europe number of new cars sold is decreased. So there isn't such a big number of "left over" second hand cars :)
P.S. Cars like your example [in LHD form, of course] here costs twice as much, exceptions being ppls who need money fast or who are leaving this country. But u probably know that LHD cars in continental europe aren't so cheap as RHD in UK.