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The vehicles mileuristas represent 46% of the market, in front of 29% of 2007

The sales of trucks used fall 7,4% in 2012

Editorial Interempresas08/01/2013

The sales of vehicles of occasion fell 7,4% in 2012, until situating in 1.576.304 units, what situated the relation of sales VO/VN in values of 2,3 to 1, the highest of the history. The market of VO accumulates like this a shrinking of 23,4% since it burst the crisis does already five years, according to the National Association of Sellers of Vehicles to Engine (Ganvam), that represents to 4.600 dealers and official services and 3.000 compraventas.

The operations with secondhand vehicles have closed the year 2012 with some figures underneath of the initially foreseen because of a month of December especially negative, with 137.840 units sold, what supposes 28,8% less than in the same period of 2011.

58,1% of the operations are between particular with trucks of low price and high age.

In this sense, the market of VO begins to show clear signs of exhaustion when marking the worst figure of closing from the beginning of the crisis and infecting like this of the path bassist that draws the market of new. The registrations retreated 13,4% with a final volume that brushes the 700.000 units, the lowest of the last 25 years.

For Ganvam if something characterises to the market of used is the leadership of the operations between particular that represent already 58,1% of the total, although in this last year descended 7,2%. The shopping to professionals, by his part, went down also 7,6% in 2012 in spite of the impulse that the Plan PIVE contributed in the last quarter to the operations of used of until a year.

Of this form, the main customers of the market of used keep on being the particular, that represented 83,3% of the total shopping of VO in 2012, with a descent of 1,1% with regard to the previous year. The consumers, affected by the crisis of confidence and the fault of financials, follow decanting mostly by vehicles of low price -mileuristas-, characterised by his height kilometraje and high age.

Evolution of the sales of VO in the last years. Source: provisional Data of the IEA for Ganvam.

This explains that the vehicles of more than ten years increased his weight on the total of the market of tourisms of VO in two points porcentuales, reaching a quota of 46,4%. In 2007 these vehicles represented 29,2% of the total volume.

This growth of the most veteran vehicles produced by the expense of the tourisms from among five and ten years, that supposed 26% of the market, losing a point porcentual regarding the past year, and of the ones of between three and five years, that hoarded 11% of the market, in front of 13% of the past year.

The ones of less than three, by his part, increased his representation in a point, until reaching 17%, promoted to a large extent by the effects of the Plan PIVE, when allowing receive to the seminuevos of until a year of antiquity.

For the president of Ganvam, Juan Antonio Sánchez Torres, “the crisis is carrying to a lot of Spaniards to look for a vehicle of occasion only guided by the factor price without mattering what buys and to who buys . Unlike the particular that offer vehicles without reviewing, without agreement, without European guarantee, the professionals act with all the ones of the law, that is to say, offering an agreement without abusive clauses, a guarantee of at least a year and a technical and administrative reliability that never will offer a particular”.

An autonomic map in negative

In a fast instantaneous by autonomous communities, all the regions registered descents in his sales of used in 2012 except Cantabria (+0,6%), Castile-La Mancha (+4%) and Navarra (+2,4%), that achieved to increase slightly his operations during the past year.

By the contrary, the greater descents produced in Madrid (-17,4%), Asturias (-13,5%), Castile and Leon (-8,3%) and Catalonia (-8,3%). After them, they situated Andalucia (-7,2%), Canaries (-6,3%), Galicia (-5,7%) and Murcia (-5,4%).

In spite of everything, in terms of quota of market Andalucia heaved like the community with a greater number of sales (16,5%), followed closely by Catalonia (16,2%) and Madrid (15,1%). Also the Valencian Community (9,9%), Galicia (5,8%), Castilla- La Mancha (5,5%) and Castile and Leon (5,1%) presented a significant volume of operations.