Britain’s slowest selling used cars from vamped up Peugeot to Hyundai saloon… will YOUR car struggle on the shelf?

BRITAIN’S slowest-selling utilized cars successful 2024 person been revealed, with 1 Hyndai exemplary often taking implicit 100 days to get snapped up connected dealership forecourts.

Newly released information from Auto Trader recovered that both BMW and Lexus are dilatory burners connected the second-hand car market.

The woody spoon grant was scooped by the Hyundai Ioniq 6, which took an mean of 125 days to merchantability past year.

The luxury Lexus RX comes successful 2nd place, taking 114 days to beryllium picked up by a buyer.

In January truthful far, the slowest-selling car is the Honda CR-V, which takes 62 days to sell.

However, the utilized car marketplace thrived successful 2025, with second-hand motors selling astatine the fastest gait since records began successful 2019.

On the different broadside of the table, Mercedes-Benz GLB Class took an mean of conscionable 16 days to merchantability past year.

The German marque besides secured the second-place spot with its A-Class SUV, which takes 16 days and 12 hours connected mean to beryllium sold.

EVs are besides the overwhelming favourite exemplary type, taking a median of conscionable 29 days to sell, compared to 30 and 31 days for petrol and diesel vehicles, respectively.

Vehicles aged betwixt 3 and 5 years aged were sold astatine an adjacent greater pace, with EVs flying disconnected forecourts successful conscionable 23 days.

"We’ve entered January with existent momentum, pursuing a precise affirmative marketplace show past year,' Richard Walker, information and penetration manager astatine AutoTrader, explained. 

"Cars sold astatine a accelerated pace, request was precise robust, and prices were stable. 

"But 2024 truly was the twelvemonth of the utilized EV, particularly for those ‘middle-aged’ models which person go much accessible than ever, helping request rocket implicit the past 12 months oregon so. 

"It shows that erstwhile the terms is right, car buyers are much than blessed to marque the power to electric."

This comes as Dacia precocious revealed that their budget-friendly Sandero exemplary was the best-selling car crossed Europe successful 2024 - contempt erstwhile being the taxable of a celebrated moving gag connected Top Gear.

The small exemplary tin beryllium picked up marque caller for nether £15,000 - which is “good news” for penny-pinching drivers successful the UK.

According to precocious revealed stats, Dacia sold 309,392 units of the Sandero, making it Europe’s best-selling conveyance crossed each channels, adjacent outselling the Tesla Model Y - which remains the world’s best-seller.

It besides makes it the best-selling conveyance successful the European retail market since 2017.

The Sandero is possibly champion known for the fame it recovered during the tallness of Top Gear's popularity.

It was often mentioned during "the news" - a conception wherever presenters Clarkson, Hammond and May rounded up the latest events successful the car industry.

Any connection of the exemplary being renewed was announced by May with a trademark outcry of "good news".