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Kia Cerato

901

cars monitored on market · 1,505 listings (dealer groups syndicate)

$20,978

median ask · used (1,450 listings)

69,665 km

median odometer · used

22d

median days to sell (178 sales)

3.8

views per day per used car · the dealer site’s own counter over its own listing age · median of 636 cars

1,450 used · 0 new · 0 demo. Asks mix drive-away and excluding-government-charges prices as advertised; the two differ by thousands and are not converted. Value one of these →

Today’s range · used asks, one price per car

asks mix drive-away and excluding-government-charges as advertised · pointing at a used car on the cloud below marks where it sits here

Used asking prices today

shaded = middle half ($15,725 to $22,994) · one price per car, n = 838

By state

NSW$18,990−$1,000 vs nationaltyp. 2020 · 72,379 kmn=280
QLD$21,950+$1,960 vs nationaltyp. 2021 · 61,091 kmn=142
VIC$19,190−$800 vs nationaltyp. 2019 · 80,186 kmn=131
WA$21,965+$1,975 vs nationaltyp. 2022 · 58,170 kmn=112
SA$19,990at the national mediantyp. 2019 · 69,756 kmn=56
ACT$21,330+$1,340 vs nationaltyp. 2020 · 59,897 kmn=18
TAS$17,990−$2,000 vs nationaltyp. 2019 · 85,540 kmn=12
NT$23,990+$4,000 vs nationaltyp. 2021 · 24,940 kmn=8

one price per car within each state; a car advertised in two states sits on both shelves while the national median counts it once. State duty schedules differ, so part of any gap is government charges rather than the car.

Price against odometer · n = 792 · all years

used and demo stock only. New cars sit at zero kilometres on recommended retail and would wash the cloud out (0 excluded)

Asking price against odometer
useddemotrend, $910 per 10,000 km across 2006 to 2024 together, so kilometres and age move in it as one

Comparables · the cars behind the cloud

showing the 12 lowest-odometer of 792 cars · drag across the cloud to pick an odometer window

The cars behind the cloud, one row per car, the 12 lowest-odometer of 792 live today: year, condition, odometer in kilometres, and the ask in dollars as the dealer advertises it.
YearConditionOdometerAsk
2024used1,588 km$21,999open
2024used6,147 km$33,888open
2024used6,628 km$34,980open
2024used7,617 km$32,490open
2024used8,600 km$32,990open
2024used9,002 km$33,999open
2024used9,471 km$28,390open
2024used9,471 km$28,390open
2024used14,871 km$25,990open
2024used15,201 km$24,998open
2024used15,843 km$24,998open
2024used16,263 km$23,999open

one row per physical car, the same cars the cloud plots. The brush filters this table only; the chart, its fit and its rung always use every car.

Evidence rung 2 of 2

The book · where dealers price, not where cars sell

every used ask in $1,000 buckets, one price per car · 12.4% sit in the $1,000 below a ten-thousand boundary, 6.7% in the $1,000 above it (838 cars)

Where this model's used asks sit

Evidence rung 2 of 2

The vintage ladder · used asks by model year

a cross-section of today, not a price history: each row is where this year’s used cars are asked right now, one price per car, on one shared axis. Reading a row marks its median on the range above

Used asks by model year

open a year: 2024 · 2023 · 2022 · 2021 · 2020 · 2019 · 2018 · 2017 · 2016 · 2015 · 2014 · 2013 · 2012 · 2011 · 2010 · 2009 · 2006

Evidence rung 2 of 2

Aged stock · 180 days on the shelf

split by condition because they age differently: aged new and demo stock is a factory pipeline story, aged used is the “nobody is buying this one” story, and blending them tells neither

used74 of 904 · 8%

median 27 days advertised

Time and sales · latest 40 events on this model

repricings, confirmed exits and relists. First-seen events are excluded, they are mostly our own coverage growing

A pre-registered test lives here: whether photo and description changes precede price cuts. It publishes, whichever way it falls, once the corpus holds 2,000 observed cuts.

The last fortnight · day by day

13 of 14 days recorded to 10 Sept, UTC; 3 Sept recorded nothing and is absent, never filled in. The same daily series the weekly report is built from.

383 Kia Ceratos proved out over the fortnight

Cars whose exit the seller's own page proved, by UTC day, 28 Aug to 10 Sept · cars · n = 13 · as at 10 Sept 2026, 08:50 pm AWST · 3 Sept recorded nothing and is absent, never filled in

383 Kia Ceratos proved out over the fortnight

Source: daily_model_rollup, one row per recorded day.

599 price cuts over the fortnight

Price-cut events on this model's listings, by UTC day, 28 Aug to 10 Sept · cars · n = 13 · as at 10 Sept 2026, 08:50 pm AWST · 3 Sept recorded nothing and is absent, never filled in

599 price cuts over the fortnight

Source: daily_model_rollup, one row per recorded day.

Median used ask held at $20,978 on the latest day

Median used ask as advertised, one price per car, by UTC day, 28 Aug to 10 Sept; drive-away and excluding-charges prices mixed as advertised · dollars · n = 13 · as at 10 Sept 2026, 08:50 pm AWST · 3 Sept recorded nothing and is absent, never filled in

Median used ask held at $20,978 on the latest day

Source: daily_model_rollup, one row per recorded day.

Confirmed sales · 235 cars · 49% cut before selling

Cars, not advertisements, and counted only once no listing of the car remains live anywhere we watch. A further 51 left this model's shopfronts without proof of a sale and are not counted here. 178 carry the seller's own listing date, which is what the median below is measured over.

This model's confirmed sales, most recent first, counted in cars: the seller's own SOLD text or a dead page, re-checked for a live listing on this request; the twelve most recent of the total stated above.
YearAsk at delistingDays advertisedDiscounted first
2018$11,99516no
2019$20,990not publishednot published
2021$27,99020yes
2023$32,9904yes
2019$14,95022yes
2021$17,88828yes
2024$30,99942no
2020$18,9900no
2016$11,99013no
2024$31,888141yes
2023$23,99060no
2021$29,99033no

Showing the 12 most recent of 235 confirmed sales.

Aged by the seller’s own listing date, discount from the seller’s own tally. Our observation window is a fraction of a listing’s life, and measuring from it would flatter every number here.