Used Cars For Sale | Second Hand Cars | AutoTrader UK (2024)

FAQs

What is the best site to buy a second-hand car UK? ›

If there's one company that dominates the used car space, it's Autotrader. With decades of reputation on its side and the UK's most extensive catalogue of used car classifieds, Autotrader's main USP is that it really is the largest and most visited vehicle buying site in the UK.

Cars.com, Carvana, Edmunds, CarMax and TrueCar are our top recommendations for used car websites. Whether you want to find your ideal pre-owned vehicle or find the right buyer for a car you're selling, these sites are easy to use and offer excellent customer support.

What is the cheapest city to buy a car? Currently, the cheapest place in England to buy a used car is Nottingham, where the price can be up to 35% lower than the rest of the country. After Nottingham, Hull and Birmingham also tend to have significantly lower prices than the national average.

Best Car Brands to Buy Used

Some brands simply feature more reliability and safer vehicles than others. That's why you might want to consider a used Lexus, Toyota, Mazda, Subaru or Kia as these topped the Consumer Reports listing of the most reliable brands.

To determine whether a car has reasonable mileage, you can simply multiply 12,000 by its age. That means good mileage for a car that's 5 years old is 60,000. Significantly more or fewer miles could indicate a problem or trouble in the future. That said, mileage can be misleading.

High demand

If there weren't any, prices wouldn't be so high in the first place. Initially, 'pent-up demand' was the main driver — lifted pandemic restrictions made it possible for everyone whose interest in a second-hand car compounded over the course of 2020/early 2021 to actually go out and buy one.

The US is the cheapest place to own a motor across the globe. the study revealed - and the UK squeezes into the top 10... Use the interactive globe below to compare costs - you can zoom in and click on the white dots to see the costs in dozens of different countries.

And by comparing average prices in October 2023 (£17,641) with previous years, it's evident just how strong used car prices remain and how fast they have increased; average values are up £3,627 on the same period in 2020, and a massive £4,308 on pre-pandemic 2019. Crucially, the used car market remains resilient.

Toyota Aygo Mk1

Toyota's tiny city car is a great bet if you're looking for inexpensive, reliable motoring and don't need much space. As with the mechanically similar Peugeot 107, average repair costs are impressively low, while it also benefits from cheap insurance and running costs.

Is a 10-Year-Old Car Too Old? Cars over 10 years old can still be reliable. Most vehicles can last well over a decade with proper care and maintenance. In fact, the average car on U.S. roads is now 12.6 years old, according to a study from S&P Global Mobility.

What used car has the least problems? ›

The optimal time to purchase a used car is typically between 2 to 5 years old. Within this age range, the vehicle has already experienced the most significant depreciation, yet remains relatively new and in good condition.

Autotrader is one of the best used car sites because it's one of the most recognized car buying and selling online auto marketplaces.

Since 1926, Kelley Blue Book has been one of the most trusted names in the auto industry. You might say we literally "wrote the book on car values". And today there's no better place to find the value of your current car than KBB.com.

Edmunds data, while accurate, isn't infallible. There will be times when we don't have enough data to give accurate results or there is a trend that isn't being reflected in the numbers. In these cases, it's best to get your own "real-world" TMV. Talk to three dealerships to get price quotes.