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The used vehicle boom

2021-06-16T18:50:49.641Z


DECRYPTION - Five out of seven vehicles sold in France are second-hand. A phenomenon which does not know the crisis.


It's the world upside down.

While the public authorities are stepping up measures to encourage, if not force them, the French to drive ever cleaner in order to reduce the carbon footprint, the French car fleet continues to age.

He is approaching eleven years of age.

The French do not mainly turn to second-hand cars (used cars) out of coquetry.

This is proof that the machine is seized up and that purchasing power continues to stagnate.

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Second hand: used cars whet appetites

Last year, at the height of the health crisis, the French bought three times as many used vehicles as new vehicles, despite the purchase aid put in place as part of the recovery plan for the automotive industry.

It traded 5,518,281 second-hand models, a decline circumscribed at 4.5%, while new car registrations contracted 25.48%, to 1,650,139 units.

This balance of power has existed for ages.

Even when the economy is doing well, it sells

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Source: lefigaro

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