Reports

The market, closed over a week or a month. Each report is written the morning its period ends, UTC, and never rewritten: what was the honest reading on the day stays on the page, and corrections reach the next period instead. Weekly publishes Mondays, monthly on the first.

Monthly reports

A calendar month against the month before. Written on the first, never rewritten.

August 2026no prior window recorded28,716 cars outPDF

Weekly reports

A UTC week against the week before, per recorded day where the two differ. Written Mondays, never rewritten.

31 August to 6 September 2026exits down 12.1% per recorded day10,836 cars outPDF

24 August to 30 August 2026exits up 0.9% per recorded day10,723 cars outPDF

17 August to 23 August 2026exits up 25.0% per recorded day10,794 cars outPDF

10 August to 16 August 2026no prior window recorded6,693 cars outPDF

The week in the market · 7 September to 10 September 2026

4 days into the running UTC week. These figures grow until the period closes; the report that publishes on Monday is the one that stands. A UTC week runs Monday 10am to Monday 10am Australian eastern standard time; daylight-saving clocks read an hour later.

16,304

price cuts · against 2,320 rises · median cut $1,000 · once per car per day

6,074

cars left the market
$239,414,212 in final asking prices, all bases as advertised
of which at least 3,225 carry the seller’s own proof

In brief

1Exits ran at 965 cars a day over 4 recorded days, down 7.7% on the 4 days before (1,046 a day over 3 recorded); at least 3,225 of the week's 6,074 carry the seller's own proof of sale.
2Dealers cut 11,357 cars' prices against 1,727 rises: 1.84 cuts a day per 100 cars live, up 16.8% on the 4 days before; the median cut was $1,000.
3The median used asking price closed at $27,990 over 100,580 cars, unchanged on the 4 days before, bases mixed as advertised.
4VIC's median used ask moved most, down 3.0% to $28,998 over 19,849 cars; NT, SA, QLD, WA held within half a percent.
5Ford Ranger led the market out with 598 proved exits, up 6.3% per recorded day; Hyundai Kona rose fastest among the twelve, up 13.4% per recorded day.
6Electric cars' median used ask closed at $43,490 over 3,819 cars, unchanged; their proved exits up 5.2% per recorded day.

each sentence computed from the figures below and carrying its count or its basis; nothing here is a forecast

Against the period before

This period against the 4 days before (3 Sept to 6 Sept): 4 of 4 days recorded this period against 3 of 4 before, so flows are compared per recorded day. Flows are summed over each window’s recorded days; levels are read on its last recorded day. A window is never filled in, and a comparison the windows cannot bear is left blank with the reason.

This period against the 4 days before, 2026-09-03 to 2026-09-06: cars that left the market, of them proved, cars cut, cars with a rise, cars live at close and the median used ask at close, with the change and, where the windows recorded different numbers of days, the figures per recorded day.
Measure	This period	the 4 days before	Change	Per recorded day
Cars that left the market · cars, one per vehicle	3,861	3,138	up 23.0% (+723)	965 vs 1,046, down 7.7%
Of them, proved by the seller's page · cars	3,225	2,250	up 43.3% (+975)	806 vs 750, up 7.5%
Cars with a price cut · cars, once per car per day	11,357	7,214	up 57.4% (+4,143)	2,839 vs 2,405, up 18.1%
Cars with a price rise · cars, once per car per day	1,727	940	up 83.7% (+787)	432 vs 313, up 37.8%
Cars live at close · cars on the last recorded day	154,726	153,007	up 1.1% (+1,719)	—
Median used asking price at close · one price per car, bases mixed	$27,990	$27,990	unchanged	—
Median days advertised at exit · proved exits with a published age, 2,797 and 2,526 cars	33d	35d	down 5.7% (−2d)	—

3,861 cars left the market in the latest window of the last eight weeks

Cars that left the market, one per vehicle, summed over each window's recorded days, the last eight weeks · cars · n = 36,296 · as at 10 Sept 2026, 08:50 pm AWST · a hollow bar is a window not fully recorded and a tick is a window before the series began; never filled in

Source: the daily roll-up, by window.

11,357 cars cut in the latest window of the last eight weeks

Cars repriced down, once per car per day, summed over each window's recorded days, the last eight weeks · cars · n = 86,096 · as at 10 Sept 2026, 08:50 pm AWST · same marks as the exits chart

Source: the daily roll-up, by window.

Per recorded day against the 4 days before: exits down 7.7%, proved exits up 7.5%, cuts up 18.1%, rises up 37.8%; cars live at close up 1.1%; the median used ask unchanged; median days to sell down 5.7%.

Exits ran down 7.7% per recorded day against the 4 days before

Running total of cars that left the market, day by day, this period in ink and the 4 days before in grey on the same days · cars · n = 3,861 · as at 10 Sept 2026, 08:50 pm AWST · 4 of 4 days recorded this period against 3 of 4 before, so flows are compared per recorded day; a line stops where a day was not recorded

Source: the daily roll-up, this window and the one before.

VIC's median used ask moved most, down 3.0% to $28,998

Median used asking price by state, the 4 days before against this period, states with 1,000 or more priced cars both sides · dollars · n = 8 · as at 10 Sept 2026, 08:50 pm AWST · asking prices as advertised, bases mixed, one price per car; a state's median can move because the yards it watches changed, not only because sellers repriced

Source: the daily state roll-up, each window's last recorded day.

Cars that left the market · top models (6,074 total)

Ford Ranger286

Toyota Hilux170

Isuzu D-max131

Hyundai Tucson129

Mazda CX-5123

one count per physical car in the week of its final exit, no listing of it still live; value is each car's final ask, once

Most repriced · cuts in the period

Ford Rangermedian $1,000631 cuts

Toyota Hiluxmedian $1,000365 cuts

Nissan X-trailmedian $1,000348 cuts

Hyundai Tucsonmedian $1,000345 cuts

Toyota RAV4median $893331 cuts

one count per car per day, however many syndicated copies repeat it; grows as coverage finds more cars

Day by day

Cars and advertisements given separately wherever both exist, because they differ by about half again and a column that picked one silently would be the commonest mistake in this data. Every day due in this period recorded.

One row per recorded day from 2026-09-07 to 2026-09-10, 4 days recorded: listings and cars live, exits in advertisements and in cars with the proved share, their value in dollars at final asking prices, and cuts and rises as events and as cars. Days that recorded nothing are absent, never interpolated.
Day	Live listings	Live cars	Cars proved sold	All exits	Cars cut	Cars up
2026-09-07	225,678	152,511	963	1,124	2,214	392
2026-09-08	225,956	152,759	830	1,034	3,182	496
2026-09-09	227,379	153,496	876	915	2,795	528
2026-09-10	228,768	154,726	556	788	3,166	311

Cars proved sold: cars whose exit the seller's own page proved: its SOLD text, or a 404/410. All exits: cars that left, recounted on 2026-09-03 against the live listings of that day --- the wider figure, and the one to read with care: it was recounted after the period closed, so a car that has since been re-advertised has left it. Cars cut: cars repriced down, one per car per day. A dash is a day recorded before these columns existed, not a zero.

How long the period’s sales had been advertised

3,231 used and demo cars proved sold in the period, of which 2,797 publish the seller’s own listing date and are what this is measured over; the median is 33 days. Unproved exits are excluded: a page that went quiet is not a sale, and a days-to-sell figure built from both would be measuring two different things.

By state

Levels are the last recorded day of the period; flows are the period’s total. They are different quantities and must not be added. A state gaining watched cars is not necessarily a state gaining stock: yards onboard weekly.

By state, 9 states, 2026-09-07 to 2026-09-10: cars watched and their median ask in dollars as advertised on the last recorded day, then cars proved sold and cars cut over the whole period. Levels and flows are different quantities.
State	Cars at close	Median ask	over	Cars proved sold	Cars cut
NSW	39,118	$26,690	25,833	593	3,247
QLD	32,430	$29,990	17,533	780	3,814
VIC	32,096	$28,998	19,849	763	3,053
WA	21,971	$29,999	17,052	509	2,537
UNKNOWN	14,203	$19,999	9,181	294	1,139
SA	8,739	$26,990	6,065	169	735
TAS	4,867	$29,290	3,237	112	458
ACT	1,852	$23,500	1,691	0	84
NT	1,704	$34,990	1,057	5	104

“over” is the cars whose price the median was taken across, which is fewer than the cars standing. The proved column sums to the same total as the day-by-day table above, because both are written in one pass under one rule. The cut column does not: cars repriced down IN THAT STATE. A car advertised in two states is in both, so this column does not sum to the market total.

What the prices in this report are

As at 2026-09-10, 94,453 live prices were quoted drive-away, 43,560 excluding government charges, and 90,755 did not say. Every median above is a median across that mix.

The corpus behind these figures

Spotlot monitored 225,678 listings on 2026-09-07 and 228,768 on 2026-09-10 (154,726 physical cars after syndication). listings monitored by Spotlot, which grows with coverage; not a count of the Australian market.

What this report withholds, and why

new to market: first seen during a coverage ramp is discovery, not listing; withheld until coverage stabilises
median ask movement: a median over a sample whose size moves with coverage measures composition; withheld until a week's n holds still

What left, by model

the twelve models with most proved exits over the period’s recorded days; live stock and its median used ask on the last recorded day, days advertised of that stock, and cuts and rises over the period once per car per day

The twelve models with most proved exits over 2026-09-07 to 2026-09-10, counted in cars: proved exits, listings live and median used ask in dollars as advertised on the last recorded day, median days advertised, and cuts and rises over the period.
Model	Proved exits	Live at close	Median used ask	Median days adv.	Cuts	Rises
Ford Ranger	598	8,651	$43,970	63d	989	124
Toyota Hilux	335	3,962	$44,980	33d	514	49
Ford Everest	291	4,084	$53,990	66d	549	83
Hyundai Tucson	270	5,186	$30,871	45d	640	68
Mitsubishi Triton	253	3,730	$29,990	62d	313	163
GWM Haval Jolion	252	3,120	$23,750	35d	226	66
Isuzu D-max	250	4,274	$42,990	55d	270	30
Toyota RAV4	249	3,729	$38,990	27d	512	45
Hyundai Kona	239	3,910	$29,880	47d	362	46
Mitsubishi Outlander	239	4,493	$29,990	76d	521	217
Nissan X-trail	235	5,425	$27,990	67d	496	65
Mazda CX-5	210	3,352	$26,990	41d	325	42

Electric share by state

electric cars as a share of cars with a stated powertrain, on the first and last recorded day of the period; states with 200 or more stated cars

Electric share of stated-powertrain cars by state, 8 states, on 2026-09-07 and 2026-09-10: stated cars and electric cars at close, the share at start and at close, and the change in points.
State	Stated cars at close	Electric at close	Share at start	Share at close	Change
NSW	37,513	2,496	6.5%	6.7%	+0.1 pts
QLD	31,202	2,424	7.6%	7.8%	+0.1 pts
VIC	31,063	2,607	8.3%	8.4%	+0.1 pts
WA	20,579	1,048	5.1%	5.1%	-0.0 pts
SA	8,562	577	6.7%	6.7%	+0.1 pts
TAS	4,644	371	7.7%	8.0%	+0.3 pts
ACT	1,734	136	7.9%	7.8%	-0.1 pts
NT	1,565	122	8.0%	7.8%	-0.2 pts

Days to sell by state and segment, 7 Sept to 10 Sept

Median days advertised at exit, used and proved only, by state and body segment · cars · n = 2,521 · as at 11 Sept 2026, 04:33 am AWST · a cell under the floor of 30 cars prints its count instead of a median. Each cell is the median days advertised at exit with the number of cars beneath it. [u] marks a cell under the floor of 30 cars, shown with its count and no figure (33 such cells here). In each row the highest and lowest figures are in bold; nothing is coloured, because a colour would say more than the sample does.

Median days advertised at exit, used and proved only, by state and body segment · cars · n = 2,521 · as at 11 Sept 2026, 04:33 am AWST · a cell under the floor of 30 cars prints its count instead of a median. Each cell is the median days advertised at exit with the number of cars beneath it. [u] marks a cell under the floor of 30 cars, shown with its count and no figure (33 such cells here). In each row the highest and lowest figures are in bold; nothing is coloured, because a colour would say more than the sample does.
State	SUV	Ute	Wagon	Hatch	Sedan	Van	Coupe	Convertible	Bus	People mover
WA	47d215	42d125	39d105	30d72	39d49	[u]9	[u]25	[u]5	[u]1	—
QLD	24d192	24d131	21d112	18d85	17d47	[u]14	[u]12	—	[u]4	—
NSW	29d218	28d95	39d108	16d65	18d44	[u]11	[u]5	[u]1	—	—
VIC	41d212	28d95	33d85	14d61	22d44	[u]18	[u]10	[u]1	—	[u]2
TAS	23d50	[u]28	[u]25	[u]14	[u]5	[u]1	[u]2	[u]2	—	—
SA	29d48	[u]20	[u]14	[u]9	[u]9	[u]3	—	—	—	—
NT	[u]3	[u]1	—	—	[u]1	—	—	—	—	—
not stated	[u]1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Source: turn_matrix over sold_car_fact, the period's proved exits.

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Spotlot, week of 7 September to 10 September 2026 (so far): Exits ran at 965 cars a day over 4 recorded days, down 7.7% on the 4 days before (1,046 a day over 3 recorded); at least 3,225 of the week's 6,074 carry the seller's own proof of sale. 16,304 price cuts against 2,320 rises (median cut $1,000), counted once per car per day. Most repriced: Ford Ranger, 631 cuts. 228,768 listings now monitored. Observed, never modelled. spotlot.io/reports