In brief

1Exits ran up 5.7% (+634) on the 7 days before: 11,696 cars against 11,062, at least 9,052 of them with the seller's own proof of sale.
2Dealer sites held 61 days of used stock at the week's pace, from 52 in SA to 65 in NSW; electric cars 66 days against 53 for petrol.
3Dealers cut 23,359 cars' prices against 2,599 rises: 2.12 cuts a day per 100 cars live, up 8.1% on the 7 days before; the median cut was $1,000.
4The median used asking price closed at $28,490 over 104,306 cars, unchanged on the 7 days before, bases mixed as advertised.
5Spotlot same-car ask index: the asking prices of the 91,768 used cars on lots right through the week fell 0.5%, value-weighted, with 18.0% of them repriced. It measures what the week's wait cost those cars, not the market's price level. By powertrain: petrol −0.5%, diesel −0.5%, hybrid −0.5%, plug-in hybrid −0.5%, electric −0.5%.
6Electric cars were 4.4% of the used stock at the close and 2.9% of the used cars that left, −0.2 pts on the 7 days before on the panel. Plug-in hybrids were 0.9% of the stock, median build 2025 and 6,415 km: near-new cars.

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

What moved

11,696 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 = 84,247 · as at 18 Oct 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.

23,359 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 = 175,393 · as at 18 Oct 2026, 08:50 pm AWST · same marks as the exits chart

Source: the daily roll-up, by window.

Against the 7 days before: exits up 5.7%, proved exits up 7.7%, cuts up 7.5%, rises down 26.9%; cars live at close down 0.5%; the median used ask unchanged; median days to sell up 3.7%.

Exits ran up 5.7% against the 7 days before

Running total of cars that left the market, day by day, this period in ink and the 7 days before in grey on the same days · cars · n = 11,696 · as at 18 Oct 2026, 08:50 pm AWST · a line stops where a day was not recorded

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

Powertrains

Electric cars were 4.4% of the used stock at the close and 2.9% of the used cars that left, −0.2 pts on the 7 days before on the panel. Plug-in hybrids were 0.9% of the stock, median build 2025 and 6,415 km: near-new cars.

Used cars standing on the last recorded day (2026-10-18) and the period's used cars that left, by the powertrain the listing stated. Shares are of the 100,137 standing and 6,238 leaving cars with one; the standing share's change is against the close of the 7 days before, whole watched corpus, the leaving share's on the constant panel. Medians at the close are over the standing used cars.

Each powertrain: used cars at close and their share, cars that left and their share, each against the earlier period in points, and the median ask, build year, kilometres and days advertised at the close.
Powertrain	Used at close	Share	vs prior	Used cars that left	Share	vs prior	Median ask	Build	Km	Days advertised
Petrol	57,728	57.6%	0.0 pts	3,486	55.9%	−2.1 pts	$23,490	2021	65k	44d
Diesel	32,245	32.2%	0.0 pts	1,980	31.7%	+2.0 pts	$34,990	2021	89k	54d
Hybrid	4,829	4.8%	0.0 pts	513	8.2%	+0.4 pts	$39,990	2024	33k	46d
Plug-in hybrid	893	0.9%	0.0 pts	75	1.2%	−0.1 pts	$51,990	2025	6.4k	61d
Electric	4,384	4.4%	0.0 pts	182	2.9%	−0.2 pts	$44,890	2024	19k	58d
LPG	58	0.1%	0.0 pts	2	0.0%	0.0 pts	$10,990	2012	165k	23d
Not stated	5,671	—	—	286	—	—	$29,999	2021	73k	27d

Source: the daily fuel roll-up for the standing cars, the sold-car record for the cars that left (used by the one rule, dated by the last day advertised). Standing is used by the one rule from 8 October 2026 and the used label before, a series break the report marks where it falls inside a period.

Electric cars took a median 56 days to sell against 25 for petrol.

The period’s 6,238 used cars that left with a stated powertrain: days to sell over proved exits with a published age, the share cut before leaving over every exit, the median final ask and build year, and each powertrain's share of the 5,814 stated exits on the constant panel against the 7 days before's 6,577.

Each powertrain’s used exits this period: cars that left, of them proved, median days to sell, the share cut before leaving, median final ask, median build year, and the panel share against the period before.
Powertrain	Left	Proved	Median days	Cut first	Median ask	Build	Panel share	vs prior
Petrol	3,486	2,972	25d	32.6%	$23,990	2021	55.7%	−2.1 pts
Diesel	1,980	1,702	27d	37.1%	$39,990	2021	31.9%	+2.0 pts
Hybrid	513	458	34d	41.3%	$37,999	2024	8.1%	+0.4 pts
Not stated	286	239	10d	4.2%	$17,990	2018	—	—
Electric	182	152	56d	39.0%	$44,790	2024	2.9%	−0.2 pts
Plug-in hybrid	75	67	62d	52.0%	$42,888	2025	1.3%	−0.1 pts
LPG	2	2	[1]	—	$11,990	2008	0.0%	0.0 pts

A days figure in brackets is a count under the floor of 30 dated cars. Used by the one rule; a sale is dated by the last day its listing was advertised.

Electric cars were 2.9% of the panel's used exits in the week of 12 Oct, from 2.2% in the week of 17 Aug

Share of each UTC week’s used exits with a stated powertrain, 17 Aug to 12 Oct. Yellow: the constant panel, the sources watched since 17 August and still read at the week’s close. Grey: every site watched that week. The band between them is coverage, not the market. Hollow where fewer than seven days were recorded.

Electric cars were 2.9% of the panel's used exits in the week of 12 Oct (2.9% over every site watched, the difference being coverage), from 2.2% in the week of 17 Aug; hybrids 8.1% from 7.5%: 9 weeks on the same sources.

Source: powertrain_week · sold_car_fact by week, panel and whole corpus.

Electric cars’ share of the standing used stock, week by week

Used cars on the week’s last recorded day with a stated powertrain, whole corpus; no panel, the roll-up reads every site. The line breaks where the used rule changed on 8 Oct: the weeks either side count used cars differently.

Hybrids’ share of the week’s used exits

Same marks as the electric line above: yellow the panel, grey every site, the band coverage.

Electric cars' share of used exits rose in all 6 states with enough cars to read; Victoria reads highest, at 4.1%

Electric cars’ share of each state’s used exits on the constant panel, 24 Aug to 20 Sept (4 weeks, hollow) against 21 Sept to 18 Oct (4 weeks, yellow). Weeks are pooled so a state reads a share rather than a handful of cars; a state needs 500 stated exits and 15 electric on each side. At right, the electric exits behind each reading.

ACT 6 to 2, NT 1 to 2 electric exits: too few for a share, so printed as counts.

Source: powertrain_week by state, constant panel.

Chinese brands

Chinese brands by ownership: Aion, BYD, Chery, Deepal, Foton, GAC, Geely, Great Wall, GWM, Haval, JAC, Jaecoo, LDV, Leapmotor, MG, Omoda, Polestar, Smart, XPeng, Zeekr (20 makes, reviewed 7 October 2026). Volvo stays out as a Swedish brand, and Tesla, Volvo and every other badge built in China appear in the VIN figure below instead. A car counts once, at the listing credited with its exit; standing stock is read when the report is made.

Chinese brands were 7.4% of the used cars that left the market, −0.2 pts on the 7 days before on the panel.

Of the used cars that left: 7.4%; 485 of 6,524 this week
Of the used stock standing: 7.7%; 8,120 of 105,808 at the close
On the panel, against the 7 days before: −0.2 pts; share of the panel's used exits, 7.7% to 7.4%

They took a median 32 days to sell against 26 for every other make, over 330 and 3,784 dated proved exits; 35.7% had a price cut before leaving against 33.6%; median build 2024 against 2021; median final ask $24,889 against $29,990.

The states, the models and the VIN reading are in the monthly report, over a month of cars.

17 makes had 100 or more used exits in the week; Toyota took 18.6% of them at a median 25 days

Each row one make with 100 or more used exits and 30 or more dated, fastest first. The dot sits on the median days its dated used exits had been advertised and grows with its share of the week’s 6,524 used exits, printed at the right. Yellow: Chinese brands by ownership.

The Chinese brands on the plot, MG, GWM, took 4.3% between them at medians of 27 to 28 days; the median make elsewhere sold in 25. Each mark is one make: its share of the week's used exits against the median days its dated exits had been advertised.

Source: sold_car_fact by make · make_origin.

Prices: the market and waiting cars

Spotlot same-car ask index: the same 91,768 cars asked 0.5% less at the close of the week than at its start.

The used cars advertised on a watched site at both the start and the close of the period, on the same listing, one car once: the sum of their closing asks over the sum of their opening asks, minus one, so a dearer car weighs more. Prices are the listing's own: before its first change after the close where one exists, else as shown now, else the final ask its exit recorded; the opening price is the one before its first change after the start. A change of price basis on the same listing counts as a move. Pairs more than halved or doubled are set aside as errors and counted. Weeks run Monday to Monday UTC; the level chains the weeks from 100 on 17 August 2026.

Of the 20 biggest models, the waiting Hyundai Kona lost most, −0.9% over 1,015 cars, and the Toyota Landcruiser Prado least, −0.3%.

Over the week, value-weighted: −0.5%; 91,768 cars on lots right through it; 4 set aside as errors
Repriced: 18.0%; 14,936 down, 1,563 up; the median move −2.5%
The average week: −0.5%; 9 closed weeks from 17 August 2026: what a week’s wait cost a car still on a lot

What a week's wait cost the same cars, 9 weeks from 17 Aug

Spotlot same-car ask index, each closed week's value-weighted change in the asking prices of the used cars on lots right through it, weeks commencing 17 Aug to 12 Oct · per cent · n = 9 · as at 19 Oct 2026, 08:15 am AWST · a reading of what waiting costs a car, not the market's price level: cars that sold or arrived in the week are outside it

Source: same_car_ask_index, one row per closed week.

By powertrain. Scopes with 500 or more cars.

Spotlot same-car ask index by powertrain: cars, the value-weighted change, the share repriced and the median move among the repriced.
	Cars	Change	Repriced	Median move
Petrol	49,796	−0.5%	17.7%	−2.8%
Diesel	28,028	−0.5%	18.9%	−2.3%
Hybrid	4,212	−0.5%	21.2%	−1.9%
Plug-in hybrid	820	−0.5%	20.1%	−2.1%
Electric	3,829	−0.5%	19.0%	−2.2%

By state, most fallen first. Scopes with 500 or more cars.

Spotlot same-car ask index by state, most fallen first: cars, the value-weighted change, the share repriced and the median move among the repriced.
	Cars	Change	Repriced	Median move
NT	954	−0.6%	16.6%	−2.5%
WA	14,808	−0.6%	26.5%	−2.5%
SA	5,655	−0.5%	19.3%	−2.2%
QLD	15,732	−0.5%	18.8%	−2.4%
NSW	22,622	−0.5%	15.5%	−2.9%
ACT	1,446	−0.5%	10.7%	−4.8%
VIC	18,287	−0.5%	17.9%	−2.2%
TAS	2,744	−0.4%	13.8%	−3.1%

By segment. Scopes with 500 or more cars.

Spotlot same-car ask index by segment: cars, the value-weighted change, the share repriced and the median move among the repriced.
	Cars	Change	Repriced	Median move
SUV	35,119	−0.5%	19.8%	−2.5%
Wagon	16,119	−0.5%	18.4%	−2.5%
Ute	12,994	−0.4%	17.6%	−2.0%
Hatch	11,116	−0.6%	16.6%	−3.2%
Sedan	7,233	−0.5%	15.9%	−3.0%
Van	2,388	−0.3%	13.0%	−2.1%
Coupe	1,933	−0.3%	15.6%	−2.1%

By model, the 20 biggest. Models with 200 or more of the same cars.

Spotlot same-car ask index by model, the 20 biggest: cars, the value-weighted change, the share repriced and the median move among the repriced.
	Cars	Change	Repriced	Median move
Ford Ranger	3,545	−0.5%	19.2%	−2.0%
Toyota Hilux	2,232	−0.4%	17.5%	−1.9%
Toyota RAV4	1,842	−0.4%	19.8%	−2.2%
Nissan X-trail	1,559	−0.5%	15.5%	−3.5%
Mitsubishi Outlander	1,492	−0.5%	18.4%	−2.6%
Hyundai Tucson	1,448	−0.7%	22.0%	−3.0%
Mazda CX-5	1,435	−0.4%	18.1%	−2.2%
Ford Everest	1,347	−0.5%	25.0%	−1.7%
Subaru Forester	1,339	−0.6%	19.5%	−2.3%
Toyota Corolla	1,309	−0.4%	14.4%	−2.4%
Toyota Landcruiser	1,281	−0.5%	25.5%	−1.4%
Hyundai i30	1,263	−0.5%	16.3%	−3.1%
Mitsubishi Triton	1,254	−0.4%	16.0%	−1.9%
Kia Sportage	1,214	−0.6%	22.0%	−2.5%
Toyota Landcruiser Prado	1,199	−0.3%	21.9%	−1.6%
Isuzu D-max	1,166	−0.4%	18.2%	−1.8%
Mazda 3	1,018	−0.5%	13.8%	−3.3%
Hyundai Kona	1,015	−0.9%	21.4%	−2.9%
Nissan Navara	951	−0.4%	16.4%	−2.5%
Kia Carnival	930	−0.5%	19.9%	−2.4%

By opening ask. Every car, by the band its opening ask fell in.

Spotlot same-car ask index by opening ask: cars, the value-weighted change, the share repriced and the median move among the repriced.
	Cars	Change	Repriced	Median move
under $15k	15,471	−0.7%	12.4%	−6.7%
$15k to $25k	22,839	−0.6%	16.3%	−3.9%
$25k to $40k	26,282	−0.5%	19.3%	−2.7%
$40k to $60k	16,096	−0.5%	21.5%	−2.0%
$60k and over	11,080	−0.4%	21.2%	−1.5%

The series, every closed week and month by scope, is a download: same-car-ask-index.csv. Written once per period and never rewritten.

Of the large states, SA's median used ask moved most, down 0.4% to $27,888

Median used asking price by state, the 7 days before against this period, states with 1,000 or more priced cars both sides; the headline is the largest move among states with 5,000 or more · dollars · n = 8 · as at 18 Oct 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.

Days to sell and stock

61 days of used stock at the week’s pace; SA turned fastest, at 52

Used cars on dealer sites standing at the close, over the cars that left the market per day of the week. Fastest first; a state needs 60 cars leaving to be given a pace.

All dealer sites67,641 standing · 7,764 left61 days
SA6,796 standing · 915 left52 days
WA10,801 standing · 1,459 left52 days
TAS1,535 standing · 181 left59 days
QLD14,699 standing · 1,700 left61 days
VIC11,851 standing · 1,314 left63 days
NSW10,692 standing · 1,156 left65 days

ACT and NT: under 60 cars left in the week, too few to set a pace.

By powertrain

Hybrid4,500 standing · 596 left53 days
Petrol31,856 standing · 4,224 left53 days
Diesel18,941 standing · 2,299 left58 days
Electric2,073 standing · 220 left66 days
Plug-in hybrid893 standing · 90 left69 days

By segment

Hatch7,195 standing · 1,034 left49 days
Sedan4,708 standing · 630 left52 days
Ute9,859 standing · 1,329 left52 days
Van1,459 standing · 178 left57 days
SUV24,139 standing · 2,897 left58 days
Wagon11,745 standing · 1,413 left58 days
Coupe1,196 standing · 129 left65 days

How long the period’s sales had been advertised

6,128 used and demo cars proved sold in the period, of which 4,938 publish the seller’s own listing date and are what this is measured over; the median is 28 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.

Cars that left the market · top models

Ford Ranger536
Toyota Hilux274
Mazda CX-5270
Toyota RAV4246
Mitsubishi Outlander234

11,264 in all. 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 $1,000931 cuts
Toyota Hiluxmedian $1,000512 cuts
Toyota RAV4median $1,000508 cuts
Ford Everestmedian $1,000494 cuts
Hyundai Tucsonmedian $1,000446 cuts

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

The detail

Against the period before

Against the 7 days before, 5 Oct to 11 Oct: 7 of 7 days recorded in each window. Flows are summed over recorded days, levels read on the last; a comparison the windows cannot bear is left blank with its reason.

This period against the 7 days before, 2026-10-05 to 2026-10-11: 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 7 days before	Change	Per recorded day	On the panel
Cars that left the market · cars, one per vehicle	11,696	11,062	up 5.7% (+634)	—	down 11.6%
Of them, proved by the seller's page · cars	9,052	8,407	up 7.7% (+645)	—	down 2.4%
Cars with a price cut · cars, once per car per day	23,359	21,722	up 7.5% (+1,637)	—	up 7.1%
Cars with a price rise · cars, once per car per day	2,599	3,556	down 26.9% (−957)	—	down 19.3%
Cars live at close · cars on the last recorded day	157,575	158,337	down 0.5% (−762)	—	—
Median used asking price at close · one price per car, bases mixed	$28,490	$28,490	unchanged	—	—
Median days advertised at exit · proved exits with a published age, 4,938 and 4,417 cars	28d	27d	up 3.7% (+1d)	—	—

On the panel: 964 sources watched through both periods. The change in used exits, proved exits, cuts and rises is measured on the 964 sources watched from 17 Aug and still read at the close, which carried 93.4% of the period's used exits (6,095 of 6,524); a site joining or leaving the watch between the periods cannot move them. They are the constant panel panel-2026-08-17, the same sources for every change in every issue until it is renewed. Levels are the whole watched market. Used exits there are by the one rule, dated by the last day advertised.

Day by day7 days

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

One row per recorded day from 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-18, 7 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
2026-10-12	234,945	157,900	1,497	1,946	4,066	498
2026-10-13	235,636	157,974	1,453	1,920	4,430	475
2026-10-14	237,234	159,034	1,344	1,598	3,505	392
2026-10-15	238,360	159,701	1,261	1,642	3,752	450
2026-10-16	238,695	160,137	1,320	1,640	4,050	471
2026-10-17	236,794	159,325	1,622	1,972	2,122	220
2026-10-18	234,526	157,575	555	978	1,434	93

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.

By state9 states

Levels are the last recorded day; flows are the period’s total. A state gaining watched cars may just be gaining yards.

By state, 9 states, 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-18: 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	Median km	Cars proved sold	Cars cut
NSW	38,583	$26,880	26,108	81k	1,692	5,248
VIC	34,117	$29,990	20,796	68k	2,218	4,705
QLD	33,181	$29,990	18,119	64k	2,008	5,104
WA	22,805	$30,990	16,939	73k	1,469	4,798
UNKNOWN	13,750	$22,995	10,716	113k	687	1,333
SA	9,282	$27,888	6,775	76k	598	1,460
TAS	4,782	$29,990	3,102	67k	331	571
ACT	1,874	$24,670	1,713	84k	24	187
NT	1,585	$33,990	1,080	87k	25	190

“over” is the cars whose price the median was taken across, which is fewer than the cars standing. Median km is the median odometer of the same used cars, read at the close, half a day after the median ask. The proved column sums to the same total as the day-by-day table, 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 left, by model12 models

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.

The twelve models with most proved exits over 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-18, 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	1,260	9,273	$41,990	43d	1,763	188
Ford Everest	574	4,552	$54,985	45d	995	72
Toyota Hilux	573	4,128	$44,990	31d	857	62
Toyota RAV4	554	3,760	$38,990	31d	870	62
Hyundai Tucson	492	5,159	$29,990	54d	863	116
Mitsubishi Outlander	484	4,696	$29,990	58d	766	144
Mazda CX-5	484	3,623	$27,888	47d	611	94
Nissan X-trail	425	5,167	$27,991	77d	668	64
Hyundai Kona	411	4,160	$29,989	50d	646	80
Kia Sportage	389	3,843	$28,990	53d	719	62
Hyundai i30	388	3,087	$22,990	36d	539	43
Subaru Forester	383	3,520	$30,990	47d	869	61

Days to sell, by state and segment4,452 cars

Days to sell by state and segment, 12 Oct to 18 Oct

Median days advertised at exit, used and proved only, by state and body segment · cars · n = 4,452 · as at 19 Oct 2026, 07:23 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 (32 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 = 4,452 · as at 19 Oct 2026, 07:23 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 (32 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	Wagon	Ute	Hatch	Sedan	Van	Coupe	Convertible	Bus	People mover	Truck
VIC	25d471	29d190	27d158	17d142	19d89	[u]26	[u]14	[u]7	[u]1	—	[u]1
QLD	28d402	17d189	17d224	16d149	21d79	[u]23	[u]20	[u]6	[u]2	[u]1	—
WA	41d327	41d179	28d174	34d113	26d78	40d30	[u]27	[u]2	—	—	—
NSW	25d325	21d168	16d152	15d94	20d53	[u]25	[u]8	—	[u]1	—	—
SA	33d130	18d61	26d38	15d33	[u]19	[u]6	[u]1	—	—	—	—
TAS	34d61	16d34	38d50	[u]17	[u]5	[u]4	[u]4	—	—	—	—
NT	[u]3	[u]5	[u]5	—	—	—	[u]2	—	—	—	—

Source: the period's proved exits.

What the prices in this report are

As at 2026-10-18, 100,971 live prices were quoted drive-away, 46,439 excluding government charges, and 91,450 did not say. Every median above is a median across that mix.

The corpus behind these figures

Spotlot monitored 234,945 listings on 2026-10-12 and 234,526 on 2026-10-18 (157,575 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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The report in one paragraph, every figure as above. Copy it wherever the conversation is.

Spotlot, week of 12–18 October 2026: Exits ran up 5.7% (+634) on the 7 days before: 11,696 cars against 11,062, at least 9,052 of them with the seller's own proof of sale. 23,348 price cuts against 2,597 rises (median cut $1,000), counted once per car per day. Most repriced: Ford Ranger, 931 cuts. 234,526 listings monitored at close. Observed, never modelled. spotlot.io/reports/w-2026-10-12