{"id":3860,"date":"2016-08-16T10:52:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T10:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/?p=3860"},"modified":"2016-08-16T10:52:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T10:52:10","slug":"used-car-market-sees-6-boost-second-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/used-car-market-sees-6-boost-second-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Used car market sees 6% boost in second quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Used car transactions rose by 5.9% in the second quarter of 2016 compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 2,008,439 vehicles were sold with prices underpinned by strong consumer demand.<\/p>\n<p>The performance over the quarter was strong despite a sharp decline in activity in June volumes which rose just 0.5% to 632,449 vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Philip Nothard, consumer and retail specialist at cap hpi said: \u201cDespite large volumes of used vehicles available the market has remained steady through 2016, with the market following seasonal trends.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd while June saw a sharp decline in activity, it should be noted that total volumes in the month exceeded those of June 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdditionally, 2016 remains 9.4% ahead of 2015 over the first half of the year, which is significant against a 2015 figure, only 0.54% ahead of 2014 at the same point.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Used car transactions rose by 5.9% in the second quarter <a class=\"moretag btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/used-car-market-sees-6-boost-second-quarter\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[392,227,259],"class_list":["post-3860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-cap-hpi","tag-motor-trader","tag-used-car-market"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}