In brief

1Exits ran at 1,673 cars a day over 6 recorded days, up 5.8% on the 7 days before (1,580 a day over 7 recorded), at least 7,758 of them with the seller's own proof of sale.
2Dealers cut 20,258 cars' prices against 3,350 rises: 2.10 cuts a day per 100 cars live, up 9.7% on the 7 days before; the median cut was $1,000.
3The median used asking price closed at $28,490 over 106,884 cars; the used rule changed on 8 Oct, so it is not compared with the 7 days before.
4Electric cars were 4.4% of the used stock at the close and 3.1% of the used cars that left, +0.3 pts on the 7 days before. Plug-in hybrids were 0.9% of the stock, median build 2025 and 6,252 km: near-new cars.
5Electric cars were 2.8% of the panel's used exits in the week of 28 Sept (2.8% over every site watched, the difference being coverage), from 2.2% in the week of 17 Aug; hybrids 8.4% from 7.5%: 7 weeks on the same sources.
6Ford Ranger led the market out with 1,060 proved exits, down 14.7% per recorded day; Chery Tiggo 4 rose fastest among the twelve, up 35.8% per recorded day.

Computed from the figures below, each with its count; nothing is a forecast.

Series breaks inside this period

2026-10-08 · used rule changed
From 08 Oct 2026 the daily roll-ups count used cars by the one rule, not marked new and 1,000 km or more where the odometer is known, instead of the used label alone. On the snapshot of 07 Oct 2026 the label counted 100,538 cars standing and the rule 106,753, a step of +6,215; every used-stock level, used ask and used-km figure in the roll-ups steps with it. No earlier day is rewritten. Demos past the floor and cars of unstated condition come in; labelled-used cars under 1,000 km go out.

2026-10-09 · daily car counts recounted whole
On 9 October 2026 every day from 11 August was recounted over the whole UTC day. Until then each day's cars that left, cars proved sold and cars cut or raised were counted at 12:50 UTC and never finished, so the afternoon crawl was missing: about a third of exits since September. Reports issued before 12 October compared those part-day counts and keep them as issued; from this issue both windows of every comparison are whole days.

Read the day-by-day table across a step as two series rather than one; a level is not compared across it. Nothing has been smoothed.

What moved

10,035 cars left the market in the latest window of the last eight weeks

Cars that left the market, one per vehicle, summed over each window's recorded days, the last eight weeks · cars · n = 79,709 · as at 11 Oct 2026, 08:50 pm AWST · a hollow bar is a window not fully recorded and a tick is a window before the series began; never filled in

Source: the daily roll-up, by window.

20,258 cars cut in the latest window of the last eight weeks

Cars repriced down, once per car per day, summed over each window's recorded days, the last eight weeks · cars · n = 173,094 · as at 11 Oct 2026, 08:50 pm AWST · same marks as the exits chart

Source: the daily roll-up, by window.

Per recorded day against the 7 days before: exits up 5.8%, proved exits up 6.4%, cuts up 11.2%, rises down 7.2%; cars live at close up 1.4%; the median used ask not compared: the used rule changed on 8 Oct; median days to sell down 10.0%.

Exits ran up 5.8% per recorded day against the 7 days before

Running total of cars that left the market, day by day, this period in ink and the 7 days before in grey on the same days · cars · n = 10,035 · as at 11 Oct 2026, 08:50 pm AWST · 6 of 7 days recorded this period against 7 of 7 before, so flows are compared per recorded day; a line stops where a day was not recorded

Source: the daily roll-up, this window and the one before.

Powertrains

Electric cars were 4.4% of the used stock at the close and 3.1% of the used cars that left, +0.3 pts on the 7 days before. Plug-in hybrids were 0.9% of the stock, median build 2025 and 6,252 km: near-new cars.

Used cars standing on the last recorded day (2026-10-10) and the period's used cars that left, by the powertrain the listing stated. Shares are of the 102,545 standing and 5,982 leaving cars with one; the standing share's change is against the close of the 7 days before, whole watched corpus, the leaving share's against the same period, whole corpus. Medians at the close are over the standing used cars. The standing shares are not compared: the used rule changed on 8 Oct, and the two closes count used cars differently.

Each powertrain: used cars at close and their share, cars that left and their share, each against the earlier period in points, and the median ask, build year, kilometres and days advertised at the close.
Powertrain	Used at close	Share	vs prior	Used cars that left	Share	vs prior	Median ask	Build	Km	Days advertised
Petrol	59,092	57.6%	—	3,340	55.8%	−1.7 pts	$23,590	2021	66k	42d
Diesel	33,070	32.2%	—	1,863	31.1%	+1.5 pts	$34,990	2021	89k	54d
Hybrid	4,919	4.8%	—	507	8.5%	−0.1 pts	$39,990	2024	34k	46d
Plug-in hybrid	922	0.9%	—	83	1.4%	0.0 pts	$51,028	2025	6.3k	58d
Electric	4,489	4.4%	—	187	3.1%	+0.3 pts	$44,888	2024	19k	57d
LPG	53	0.1%	—	2	0.0%	0.0 pts	$10,777	2010	167k	18d
Not stated	5,941	—	—	282	—	—	$29,999	2021	73k	26d

Source: the daily fuel roll-up for the standing cars, the sold-car record for the cars that left (used by the one rule, dated by the last day advertised). Standing is used by the one rule from 8 October 2026 and the used label before, a series break the report marks where it falls inside a period.

Electric cars were 2.8% of the panel's used exits in the week of 28 Sept, from 2.2% in the week of 17 Aug

Share of each UTC week’s used exits with a stated powertrain, 17 Aug to 28 Sept. Yellow: the constant panel, the sources watched since 17 August and still read at the week’s close. Grey: every site watched that week. The band between them is coverage, not the market. Hollow where fewer than seven days were recorded.

Electric cars were 2.8% of the panel's used exits in the week of 28 Sept (2.8% over every site watched, the difference being coverage), from 2.2% in the week of 17 Aug; hybrids 8.4% from 7.5%: 7 weeks on the same sources.

Source: powertrain_week · sold_car_fact by week, panel and whole corpus.

Electric cars’ share of the standing used stock, week by week

Used cars on the week’s last recorded day with a stated powertrain, whole corpus; no panel, the roll-up reads every site.

Hybrids’ share of the week’s used exits

Same marks as the electric line above: yellow the panel, grey every site, the band coverage.

Electric cars' share of used exits rose in 4 of the 5 states with enough cars to read; Victoria reads highest, at 3.8%

Electric cars’ share of each state’s used exits on the constant panel, 17 Aug to 6 Sept (3 weeks, hollow) against 7 Sept to 4 Oct (4 weeks, yellow). Weeks are pooled so a state reads a share rather than a handful of cars; a state needs 500 stated exits and 15 electric on each side. At right, the electric exits behind each reading.

TAS 10 to 33, ACT 2 to 5, NT 0 to 1 electric exits: too few for a share, so printed as counts.

Source: powertrain_week by state, constant panel.

Prices: the market and waiting cars

The median ask by state is not compared with the 7 days before: the used rule changed on 8 Oct (+6,215 cars counted as used), so the two closes count used cars differently.

Days to sell and stock

Days of stock are counted when the week closes: a running week’s exits are still being confirmed, so its pace runs slow.

How long the period’s sales had been advertised

5,801 used and demo cars proved sold in the period, of which 4,562 publish the seller’s own listing date and are what this is measured over; the median is 27 days. Unproved exits are excluded: a page that went quiet is not a sale, and a days-to-sell figure built from both would be measuring two different things.

Cars that left the market · top models

Ford Ranger491
Toyota Hilux257
Toyota RAV4244
Ford Everest240
Mazda CX-5231

10,502 in all. one count per physical car in the week of its final exit, no listing of it still live; value is each car's final ask, once

Most repriced · cuts in the period

Ford Rangermedian $1,000775 cuts
Toyota Hiluxmedian $1,000555 cuts
Toyota RAV4median $784466 cuts
Mitsubishi Outlandermedian $1,000454 cuts
Nissan X-trailmedian $1,000416 cuts

one count per car per day, however many syndicated copies repeat it; grows as coverage finds more cars

The detail

Against the period before

Against the 7 days before, 28 Sept to 4 Oct: 6 of 7 days recorded this period against 7 of 7 before, so flows are compared per recorded day. Flows are summed over recorded days, levels read on the last; a comparison the windows cannot bear is left blank with its reason. On 9 October 2026 every day from 11 August was recounted over the whole UTC day. Until then each day's cars that left, cars proved sold and cars cut or raised were counted at 12:50 UTC and never finished, so the afternoon crawl was missing: about a third of exits since September. Reports issued before 12 October compared those part-day counts and keep them as issued; from this issue both windows of every comparison are whole days.

This period against the 7 days before, 2026-09-28 to 2026-10-04: cars that left the market, of them proved, cars cut, cars with a rise, cars live at close and the median used ask at close, with the change and, where the windows recorded different numbers of days, the figures per recorded day.
Measure	This period	the 7 days before	Change	Per recorded day
Cars that left the market · cars, one per vehicle	10,035	11,063	down 9.3% (−1,028)	1,673 vs 1,580, up 5.8%
Of them, proved by the seller's page · cars	7,758	8,507	down 8.8% (−749)	1,293 vs 1,215, up 6.4%
Cars with a price cut · cars, once per car per day	20,258	21,253	down 4.7% (−995)	3,376 vs 3,036, up 11.2%
Cars with a price rise · cars, once per car per day	3,350	4,212	down 20.5% (−862)	558 vs 602, down 7.2%
Cars live at close · cars on the last recorded day	160,426	158,255	up 1.4% (+2,171)	—
Median used asking price at close · one price per car, bases mixed	$28,490	$27,990	—	—
Median days advertised at exit · proved exits with a published age, 4,562 and 4,581 cars	27d	30d	down 10.0% (−3d)	—

Median used asking price at close: the used rule changed on 8 Oct (+6,215 cars counted as used), so the two closes count used cars differently.

Day by day6 days

Cars and advertisements separately wherever both exist; they differ by about half again. Every day due in this period recorded. 1 day is still to be written: 2026-10-11. The daily roll-up runs at 12:50 UTC, so today appears here until it does.

One row per recorded day from 2026-10-05 to 2026-10-11, 6 days recorded: listings and cars live, exits in advertisements and in cars with the proved share, their value in dollars at final asking prices, and cuts and rises as events and as cars. Days that recorded nothing are absent, never interpolated.
Day	Live listings	Live cars	Cars proved sold	All exits	Cars cut	Cars up
2026-10-05	234,336	157,413	942	1,485	2,954	433
2026-10-06	234,702	157,546	1,372	1,799	3,465	1,121
2026-10-07	236,313	158,364	1,344	1,516	4,190	510
2026-10-08	238,689	160,256	1,251	1,548	3,984	487
2026-10-09	238,657	160,086	1,249	1,651	2,951	347
2026-10-10	238,334	160,426	1,600	2,036	2,714	452

Cars proved sold: cars whose exit the seller's own page proved: its SOLD text, or a 404/410. All exits: cars that left, recounted on 2026-09-03 against the live listings of that day, the wider figure and the one to read with care: it was recounted after the period closed, so a car that has since been re-advertised has left it. Cars cut: cars repriced down, one per car per day. A dash is a day recorded before these columns existed, not a zero.

By state9 states

Levels are the last recorded day; flows are the period’s total. A state gaining watched cars may just be gaining yards.

By state, 9 states, 2026-10-05 to 2026-10-11: cars watched and their median ask in dollars as advertised on the last recorded day, then cars proved sold and cars cut over the whole period. Levels and flows are different quantities.
State	Cars at close	Median ask	over	Median km	Cars proved sold	Cars cut
NSW	39,183	$26,888	26,553	81k	1,374	4,105
VIC	34,655	$29,990	21,330	70k	2,003	4,419
QLD	34,177	$29,990	18,822	64k	1,640	4,333
WA	23,000	$30,999	17,300	73k	1,392	4,296
UNKNOWN	13,940	$23,290	10,874	113k	605	1,458
SA	9,310	$27,990	6,809	74k	474	1,186
TAS	4,961	$29,990	3,227	69k	228	486
ACT	2,043	$23,990	1,841	84k	23	117
NT	1,614	$34,985	1,130	81k	19	114

“over” is the cars whose price the median was taken across, which is fewer than the cars standing. Median km is the median odometer of the same used cars, read at the close, half a day after the median ask. The proved column sums to the same total as the day-by-day table, because both are written in one pass under one rule. The cut column does not: cars repriced down IN THAT STATE. A car advertised in two states is in both, so this column does not sum to the market total.

What left, by model12 models

The twelve models with most proved exits; stock and its median used ask on the last recorded day, cuts and rises once per car per day.

The twelve models with most proved exits over 2026-10-05 to 2026-10-11, counted in cars: proved exits, listings live and median used ask in dollars as advertised on the last recorded day, median days advertised, and cuts and rises over the period.
Model	Proved exits	Live at close	Median used ask	Median days adv.	Cuts	Rises
Ford Ranger	1,060	9,519	$41,990	40d	1,493	121
Ford Everest	560	4,683	$53,487	51d	886	75
Toyota RAV4	544	3,758	$39,388	30d	834	81
Hyundai Tucson	542	4,899	$29,990	57d	834	105
Nissan X-trail	517	5,428	$28,490	74d	707	115
Toyota Hilux	514	4,238	$44,990	31d	906	82
Mitsubishi Outlander	423	4,867	$29,950	57d	697	171
Hyundai Kona	398	4,135	$29,977	51d	520	140
Hyundai i30	396	3,118	$22,990	37d	463	37
Mitsubishi Triton	370	3,899	$29,999	56d	399	103
Mazda CX-5	356	3,741	$27,690	43d	472	50
Chery Tiggo 4	340	3,090	$22,990	28d	284	55

Days to sell, by state and segment4,140 cars

Days to sell by state and segment, 5 Oct to 11 Oct

Median days advertised at exit, used and proved only, by state and body segment · cars · n = 4,140 · as at 11 Oct 2026, 07:33 pm AWST · a cell under the floor of 30 cars prints its count instead of a median. Each cell is the median days advertised at exit with the number of cars beneath it. [u] marks a cell under the floor of 30 cars, shown with its count and no figure (33 such cells here). In each row the highest and lowest figures are in bold; nothing is coloured, because a colour would say more than the sample does.

Median days advertised at exit, used and proved only, by state and body segment · cars · n = 4,140 · as at 11 Oct 2026, 07:33 pm AWST · a cell under the floor of 30 cars prints its count instead of a median. Each cell is the median days advertised at exit with the number of cars beneath it. [u] marks a cell under the floor of 30 cars, shown with its count and no figure (33 such cells here). In each row the highest and lowest figures are in bold; nothing is coloured, because a colour would say more than the sample does.
State	SUV	Wagon	Ute	Hatch	Sedan	Van	Coupe	Convertible	People mover	Bus
VIC	27d413	24d197	27d169	18d159	20d86	[u]20	[u]8	[u]1	[u]2	[u]1
QLD	24d357	18d181	20d205	16d133	13d97	[u]17	[u]18	[u]2	—	—
WA	30d330	40d169	35d178	28d131	29d83	[u]28	[u]21	[u]2	—	—
NSW	22d293	23d135	15d114	19d104	11d51	[u]10	[u]9	[u]1	[u]1	—
SA	22d105	31d43	[u]29	[u]24	[u]19	[u]3	[u]1	[u]1	—	—
TAS	25d56	32d31	32d45	[u]20	[u]12	[u]1	[u]1	—	—	—
NT	[u]4	[u]1	[u]3	—	[u]1	—	—	—	—	—

Source: the period's proved exits.

What the prices in this report are

As at 2026-10-10, 99,890 live prices were quoted drive-away, 46,915 excluding government charges, and 92,321 did not say. Every median above is a median across that mix.

The corpus behind these figures

Spotlot monitored 234,336 listings on 2026-10-05 and 238,334 on 2026-10-10 (160,426 physical cars after syndication). listings monitored by Spotlot, which grows with coverage; not a count of the Australian market.

What this report withholds, and why

new to market: first seen during a coverage ramp is discovery, not listing; withheld until coverage stabilises
median ask movement: a median over a sample whose size moves with coverage measures composition; withheld until a week's n holds still

This week so far as a PDF: preliminary on every page, rendered live, and never archived; the issued report replaces it when the week closes.

The report in one paragraph, every figure as above. Copy it wherever the conversation is.

Spotlot, week of 5–11 October 2026 (so far): Exits ran at 1,673 cars a day over 6 recorded days, up 5.8% on the 7 days before (1,580 a day over 7 recorded), at least 7,758 of them with the seller's own proof of sale. 21,078 price cuts against 3,487 rises (median cut $1,000), counted once per car per day. Most repriced: Ford Ranger, 775 cuts. 238,334 listings now monitored. Observed, never modelled. spotlot.io/reports