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Used Car Prices At 16-Year High
UNDATED -- Have a used car that you want to sell? Now may be the best time to do it according to industry analysts who says dealers are paying as much as 30-percent more for used vehicles than at the end of 2008.
Scott Lambert is the Executive Vice President of the Minnesota Automobile Dealers Association.
He says it is a basic issue of supply and demand. Lambert says when the recession hit, people were holding onto their used vehicles in lieu of buying new. And, he says it has created a shortage of used vehicles on the lots.
But, Lambert says new car sales have rebounded and are pacing about 5-6% above last year at this time. That, along with increased new-car leasing should replenish the used-car market in the coming months.
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