Much-loved car auction site that once sold 200 vehicles a week closes after 30 years of business

THE HAMMER'S travel down connected a palmy utilized car auction location aft much than 30 years successful business.

Arrow Motor Auctions, located successful Redditch, Worcestershire, archetypal opened successful 1994.

But it closed its doors for bully past week successful a determination that has amazed locals and those successful the centrifugal trade.

According to Car Dealer Magazine, Arrow Motor Auctions made its past merchantability connected January 22, portion the tract remained unfastened until its last time connected Friday, January 31, for administrative purposes.

In that period, their last deals were completed and the past of their unsold cars were collected.

Now, the business has wholly ceased trading.

Arrow Motor Auctions said: "After implicit 30 years of continuous trading, Arrow Motor Auctions volition adjacent its doors connected January 31, 2025.

"The offices volition stay unfastened until January 31, 2025, to let customers and clients to reason each income and transactions and to cod immoderate unsold vehicles from the site.

"We would similar to instrumentality this accidental to convey some our customers and clients for their loyal enactment implicit the past 3 decades."

Furthermore, a connection connected their website simply reads: "Arrow Motor Auctions is present closed for business.

"We would similar to convey each of our past customers for their support."

The auction location sold up to 200 vehicles each week from main agents, retail portion exchanges, commercialized and backstage entries.

For much than 3 decades, their superior purpose was to supply section conveyance re-marketing for commercialized and backstage clients.

Their lawsuit basal included main cause dealerships, conveyance retailers, centrifugal traders, section councils, concern companies, liquidators, insolvency practitioners, bailiff companies and backstage entrants.

They offered a wide enactment of cars and different vehicles, with caller banal arriving daily.

At this time, it is unclear whether the closure is imperishable oregon whether the concern volition reopen astatine different site.

Arrow Motor Auctions wasn't the lone car-related concern to adjacent connected Friday.

Highly-renowned car dealership Allen Ford successful Rugby, Warwickshire, besides permanently closed its income and work operations connected January 31.

The announcement has sparked confusion, arsenic it remains unclear whether this closure is linked to Ford's wider plans to axe 50 dealerships crossed the UK by 2025.

Elsewhere, Britain's slowest-selling utilized cars successful 2024 person been revealed - with 1 Hyundai 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.