The month in the market · August 2026
A closed calendar month, written once and never rewritten. Later corrections reach the next period, not this one. Months are UTC months, closing at 10am Australian eastern standard time on the first; daylight-saving clocks read an hour later.
62,036
price cuts · against 7,729 rises · median cut $1,000 · once per car per day
28,716
cars left the market
$1,054,639,557 in final asking prices, all bases as advertised
of which at least 22,378 carry the seller’s own proof
In brief
- 128,716 cars left the market over 31 days, at least 22,378 of them proved by the seller's own page. No comparison is drawn: the previous calendar month recorded no day: the daily series began 2026-08-11, so there is nothing to compare this period with.
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 previous calendar month (1 July to 31 July): the previous calendar month recorded no day: the daily series began 2026-08-11, so there is nothing to compare this period with. 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.
| Measure | This period | the previous calendar month | Change | Per recorded day |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cars that left the market · cars, one per vehicle | 26,444 | — | — | — |
| Of them, proved by the seller's page · cars | 21,548 | — | — | — |
| Cars with a price cut · cars, once per car per day | 57,886 | — | — | — |
| Cars with a price rise · cars, once per car per day | 7,296 | — | — | — |
| Cars live at close · cars on the last recorded day | 149,984 | — | — | — |
| Median used asking price at close · one price per car, bases mixed | — | — | — | — |
| Median days advertised at exit · proved exits with a published age, 11,305 and 0 cars | 35d | — | — | — |
Cars that left the market, Of them, proved by the seller's page, Cars with a price cut, Cars with a price rise, Cars live at close, Median days advertised at exit: the previous calendar month recorded no day: the daily series began 2026-08-11, so there is nothing to compare this period with. Median used asking price at close: the national median ask has been written daily since 2026-09-05; neither window has one.
26,444 cars left the market in the latest window of the last six months
Cars that left the market, one per vehicle, summed over each window's recorded days, the last six months · cars · n = 26,444 · as at 31 Aug 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.
57,886 cars cut in the latest window of the last six months
Cars repriced down, once per car per day, summed over each window's recorded days, the last six months · cars · n = 57,886 · as at 31 Aug 2026, 08:50 pm AWST · same marks as the exits chart
Source: the daily roll-up, by window.
Cars that left the market · top models (28,716 total)
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
one count per car per day, however many syndicated copies repeat it; grows as coverage finds more cars
The corpus behind these figures
Spotlot monitored 49,673 listings on 2026-08-11 and 221,797 on 2026-08-31 (149,984 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
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Spotlot, August 2026: 28,716 cars left the market over 31 days, at least 22,378 of them proved by the seller's own page. No comparison is drawn: the previous calendar month recorded no day: the daily series began 2026-08-11, so there is nothing to compare this period with. 62,036 price cuts against 7,729 rises (median cut $1,000), counted once per car per day. Most repriced: Ford Ranger, 2,886 cuts. 221,797 listings monitored at close. Observed, never modelled. spotlot.io/reports/m-2026-08