| The recession has been a bleak time for many | | | | years have been pretty solid, that goes for me and |
| industries and after doing a survey of the used cars | | | | others I know in the second hand car game.' The |
| for sale in the UK we have discovered that the | | | | buoyancy of the second hand car market has |
| second hand car market did not suffer to badly. There | | | | probably come from the amount of downsizing and |
| seems to have been a decrease in the volume of | | | | restructuring of peoples finances in the social classes |
| cars sold each year however not a large enough | | | | A1 - C1, with many middle management workers being |
| decrease that traders large or small have gone out of | | | | made redundant or laid of they have had to consider |
| business, the same cannot be said for car | | | | money saving/making alternatives so selling there 2 |
| manufacturers. | | | | year old Mercedes SLK to change for a second hand |
| The governments car scrap-age scheme did try to | | | | 8 year old Audi A4. This unfortunately will be the case |
| keep car manufacturers head above water but for | | | | all over the country with many being forced to look out |
| some times have been very tough with a struggle | | | | there outgoings / expenses and any luxuries such as |
| ahead likely for the likes of Saab. Second hand car | | | | fancy cars will be the first to go, luckily for the second |
| garages have noticed a stability of sales during the | | | | hand car market an alternative vehicle will almost |
| recession with some even doing better than they | | | | always be needed. |
| were just before the recession bit. Tony Parker, who | | | | Used cars for sale looks set to be an ongoing and |
| owns a garage in the North West states, ' I have | | | | healthy industry for many years to come, whatever |
| noticed a drop in footfall recently but that was only | | | | the economic climate is. |
| due to the big freeze! Apart from that the last two | | | | |