Aurélien Fleurot, edited by Manon Fossat 7:12 am, October 19, 2021, modified at 7:14 am, October 19, 2021

The almost new is running at full speed.

Faced with the shortage of semiconductors, these electronic parts essential to cars, and the brake on new car deliveries, the second-hand market is exploding.

Three second-hand vehicles are now sold in France for one new vehicle. 

The automotive market is still in sharp decline.

Indeed, the latter recorded a decrease of -20% in September.

In particular, the decrease in car production due to the global shortage of semiconductors, which therefore leads to fewer sales on the new market.

A lasting crisis which is also having an impact on the second-hand market, which is resisting better and which sees customers arrive who have no other choice but to turn to "recent opportunity".

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Many French people are turning to second-hand vehicles with low mileage since three used cars are now sold in the country for a new one.

A record ratio.

This underlying trend is particularly accentuated by the current shortage, often with delays in receiving the new vehicle not before spring 2022.

A strong attraction for the refurbished car

Specialists of the occasion have therefore seen the arrival of new customers, both urban executives and retirees, as observed by Alexandre Romarin, vice-president of the auto group, which launched the AutoHéro site a year ago in France. .

"People look to the most recent models available and it shows in the price. But they don't hesitate to also take real used vehicle that is three years, five years or six years old," he explains. -he.

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The same goes for Aramisauto, with there too a strong attraction for the refurbished car.

"The customers who come to see us today are turning to us because we have an alternative offer that is perfect for them: reconditioned, recent, low-mileage used vehicles which are technologically equipped like the new vehicles coming out. today factories ", explains its managing director Romain Boscher. 

As a result, motorists spend less than expected, or go upmarket for those who can afford it.

And who especially want to turn to hybrid or electric models.