Datamonitor's Used Cars in the United Kingdom industry profile is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the used cars industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, plus textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, demographic information, and descriptions of the leading companies.

Scope

* Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and segmentation

* Provides textual analysis of the industry's prospects, competitive landscape and leading companies

* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

* Supported by the key macroeconomic and demographic data affecting the market

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Market definition - The used car market covers all sales of second hand cars. The market includes private sales, rental and leasing car disposals, manufacturer disposals, corporate disposals, and other remarketed sales. A remarketed sale is defined as the sale of a vehicle by a business that has used the vehicle as part of its business operations or to generate a profit, and therefore includes disposals and sales through franchised and independent dealers.

Any currency conversions used in the creation of this report have been calculated using constant 2005 annual average exchange rates.

For the purposes of this report, the European market consists of Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, and the UK.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3
CHAPTER 1 Market Overview 7
1.1 Market Definition 7
1.2 Research Highlights 7
1.3 Market Analysis 8
CHAPTER 2 Market Value 9
CHAPTER 3 Market Volume 10
CHAPTER 4 Market Segmentation I 11
CHAPTER 5 Market Segmentation II 12
CHAPTER 6 Competitive Landscape 13
CHAPTER 7 Leading Companies 14
7.1 British Car Auctions 14
CHAPTER 8 Market Forecasts 15
8.1 Market Value Forecast 15
8.2 Market Volume Forecast 16
CHAPTER 9 Macroeconomic Indicators 17

CHAPTER 10 Further Reading 19
10.1 Sources 19
10.2 Related Datamonitor Research 19

LIST OF TABLES
Table 1: United Kingdom Used Cars Market Value: $ billion, 2002-2006 9
Table 2: United Kingdom Used Cars Market Volume: Cars thousand, 2002-2006 10
Table 3: United Kingdom Used Cars Market Segmentation I: % Share, by Volume, 2006 11
Table 4: United Kingdom Used Cars Market Segmentation II: % Share, by Volume, 2006 12
Table 5: United Kingdom Used Cars Market Value Forecast: $ billion, 2006-2011 15
Table 6: United Kingdom Used Cars Market Volume Forecast: Cars thousand, 2006-2011 16
Table 7: United Kingdom Size of Population (million) , 2002-2006 17
Table 8: United Kingdom GDP (1995=100), 2002-2006 17
Table 9: United Kingdom Inflation, 2002-2006 17
Table 10: United Kingdom Exchange Rate, 2002 18