The week in the market · 14 September to 20 September 2026

In brief

1. 1Exits ran at 1,124 cars a day over 7 recorded days, up 26.5% on the 7 days before (888 a day over 6 recorded); at least 6,396 of the week's 14,333 carry the seller's own proof of sale.
2. 2Dealers cut 16,243 cars' prices against 2,365 rises: 1.48 cuts a day per 100 cars live, down 13.2% on the 7 days before; the median cut was $1,000.
3. 3The median used asking price closed at $27,990 over 98,925 cars, up 0.1% (+$40) on the 7 days before, bases mixed as advertised.
4. 4WA's median used ask moved most, up 5.0% to $31,489 over 16,783 cars; QLD, TAS held within half a percent.
5. 5Ford Ranger led the market out with 1,416 proved exits, up 25.0% per recorded day; Hyundai i30 rose fastest among the twelve, up 82.0% per recorded day.
6. 6Electric cars' median used ask closed at $42,990 over 3,849 cars, unchanged; their proved exits up 71.4% per recorded day.

computed from the figures below, each with its count; nothing is a forecast

Against the period before

Against the 7 days before, 7 Sept to 13 Sept: 7 of 7 days recorded this period against 6 of 7 before, so flows are compared per recorded day. Flows are summed over recorded days, levels read on the last; a comparison the windows cannot bear is left blank with its reason.

Per recorded day against the 7 days before: exits up 26.5%, proved exits up 26.8%, cuts down 11.3%, rises down 24.1%; cars live at close up 2.1%; the median used ask up 0.1%; median days to sell unchanged.

Day by day

Cars and advertisements separately wherever both exist; they differ by about half again. Every day due in this period recorded.

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

8,669 used and demo cars proved sold in the period, of which 5,047 publish the seller’s own listing date and are what this is measured over; the median is 34 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; flows are the period’s total. A state gaining watched cars may just be gaining yards.

“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 2026-09-20, 99,126 live prices were quoted drive-away, 47,270 excluding government charges, and 91,544 did not say. Every median above is a median across that mix.

The corpus behind these figures

Spotlot monitored 223,557 listings on 2026-09-14 and 234,321 on 2026-09-20 (156,655 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; stock and its median used ask on the last recorded day, cuts and rises once per car per day

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