Top 50 used car dealers by second-hand stock revealed as figures show 200,000 used cars sold in August

More than 200,000 used cars were sold by the biggest 200 dealers in the UK last month – up 2.5 per cent on July – as demand for second hand cars continues to skyrocket.

New data from used car market analysts Carcondor reveals that in August 200,764 used cars were sold by the biggest dealers, compared to 195,730 the previous month.

Carcondor, which analyses the used car market by assessing advertising feeds, says the number of used cars these dealers had in stock fell 8.6 per cent as they struggled to replenish forecourts.

Arnold Clark, with 25,010 used cars, had the most amount of used car stock with more than double second placed Evans Halshaw’s 10,915.

Car Shop was third (8,979) in Carcondor’s list of the most stocked dealers with parent group Sytner’s used stock sitting at 7,887.

If the two were combined they would be in comfortable second place.

Supply of used cars is still below normal levels as many vendors slowly release stock into the market. September’s bumper new car sales is likely to help ease these pressures.

William Gomes, founder of CarCondor, said: ‘These figures are good news for dealers with increased sales recorded. 

‘However, in the last five years that we’ve been gathering data September has never had more sales than August.

‘This may be the end of increasing month on month used car sales. 

‘Dealers have also had trouble sourcing the correct stock with the top 200 adding almost 17,000 fewer cars to their stock in August compared to July.’

Carcondor statistics for the whole of the UK used car market found that the Smart Forfour was the fastest selling car in the month and the Ford Fiesta clocked up the most sales.

Smaller dealer groups with less than nine showrooms performed the best for used car sales in August with sales up three per cent on July, while the largest dealer groups with more than 100 showrooms saw used car sales fall two per cent.

The top 50 most stocked used car dealers in August according to Carcondor is below.

	Dealer / Dealer Group	Stock	Locations
1	Arnold Clark	25,010	167
2	Evans Halshaw Part of Pendragon PLC	10,915	84
3	Car Shop Part of Sytner Group	8,979	10
4	Sytner Part of Sytner Group	7,887	98
5	Bristol Street Motors Part of Vertu Motors PLC	6,729	117
6	Inchcape	6,428	72
7	Marshall	5,660	108
8	Lookers	5,089	140
9	Available Car	4,875	4
10	JCT600	4,505	41
11	Lancaster	4,317	52
12	Group 1 Automotive	4,008	53
13	Big Motoring World	3,228	4
14	Motorpoint	2,986	13
15	Motorline	2,787	50
16	Listers	2,570	45
17	Robins & Day	2,502	48
18	Stoneacre	2,385	63
19	Steven Eagell	2,384	28
20	John Clark	2,352	28
21	Trust Ford	2,349	29
22	Parks Motor Group	2,323	51
23	Stratstone Part of Pendragon PLC	2,132	30
24	Pentagon Motor Group	2,033	18
25	Perrys	1,908	28
26	Imperial Car Supermarkets Part of Cazoo Group	1,860	18
27	Car Base	1,793	4
28	Johnson Cars Limited	1,784	38
29	Hendy Group	1,779	46
30	Glyn Hopkin	1,729	45
31	Motor Depot	1,712	11
32	Cargiant	1,640	1
33	Eastern Western	1,620	21
34	Cazoo Part of Cazoo Group	1,604	1
35	Mercedes-Benz Retail Group	1,593	18
36	Fords of Windsford	1,561	2
37	Dick Lovett	1,415	16
38	Snows Group	1,331	54
39	Drive Vauxhall	1,316	13
40	Peter Vardy	1,283	16
41	Swansway	1,208	22
42	RRG Group	1,204	19
43	Helston Garages Group	1,195	34
44	Lloyd Motor Group	1,160	20
45	Agnew Group	1,153	15
46	Allen Motor Group	1,144	25
47	LSH Auto	1,076	11
48	Harwoods Group	1,062	19
49	Williams	1,048	15
50	Hilton Garage	1,043	1

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