The week in the market · 10 August to 16 August 2026
A closed UTC week, written once and never rewritten. Later corrections reach the next period, not this one. A UTC week runs Monday 10am to Monday 10am Australian eastern standard time; daylight-saving clocks read an hour later.
9,667
price cuts · against 1,366 rises · median cut $1,000 · once per car per day
6,693
cars left the market
$180,439,806 in final asking prices, all bases as advertised
of which at least 5,791 carry the seller’s own proof
In brief
- 16,693 cars left the market over 7 days, at least 5,791 of them proved by the seller's own page. No comparison is drawn: the 7 days before 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 7 days before (3 Aug to 9 Aug): the 7 days before 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 7 days before | Change | Per recorded day |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cars that left the market · cars, one per vehicle | 5,796 | — | — | — |
| Of them, proved by the seller's page · cars | 5,455 | — | — | — |
| Cars with a price cut · cars, once per car per day | 8,167 | — | — | — |
| Cars with a price rise · cars, once per car per day | 1,145 | — | — | — |
| Cars live at close · cars on the last recorded day | 120,262 | — | — | — |
| Median used asking price at close · one price per car, bases mixed | — | — | — | — |
| Median days advertised at exit · proved exits with a published age, 2,182 and 0 cars | 37d | — | — | — |
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 7 days before 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.
5,796 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 = 5,796 · as at 16 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.
8,167 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 = 8,167 · as at 16 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 (6,693 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 189,305 on 2026-08-16 (120,262 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, week of 10 August to 16 August 2026: 6,693 cars left the market over 7 days, at least 5,791 of them proved by the seller's own page. No comparison is drawn: the 7 days before recorded no day: the daily series began 2026-08-11, so there is nothing to compare this period with. 9,667 price cuts against 1,366 rises (median cut $1,000), counted once per car per day. Most repriced: Ford Ranger, 547 cuts. 189,305 listings monitored at close. Observed, never modelled. spotlot.io/reports/w-2026-08-10