The Price of This Used Car Is Rising Fastest

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The Price of This Used Car Is Rising Fastest

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The demand for new and used cars plunged early last year as the COVID-19 pandemic cut commuting activity, vacation driving and the ability to visit dealerships. Demand has surged back, and car sales since late last year have been near all-time highs. This has caused an increase in prices across most used and new car models. A shortage of chips for auto electronics systems also has been driving the price increases. The shortage has shuttered some manufacturing facilities and pushed inventory to extremely low levels.
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Price increases of used cars vary substantially from model to model. According to iSeeCars, across all models, the price increase of used cars was 16.85% in April, up by $3,926, from the same month last year. iSeeCars used a sample of 1.2 million used cars sold last month. iSeeCars Executive Analyst, Karl Brauer commented: “The current used car price increase is unparalleled, and prices will likely remain elevated for the foreseeable future due to the magnitude of the global microchip shortage and restricted new car supply.”

Two models had increases of over 30% in April, compared to April of last year. The price of the Chevy Corvette rose 33.9% to $68,804. The Corvette is also the fastest-selling new car in America, according to another study from iSeeCars. The other car with a price increase of over 30% is the Mercedes-Benz G-Class with a rise of 33.2% to $148,937.
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The 20 used cars with the largest increases in price in April include several pickups. Pickups are the best-selling category among all cars and light trucks sold in the United States. For example, the price of a Ram 1500 rose 28.8% to $35,798 and the price of a Chevrolet Silverado 1500 rose 27.1% to $37,324.

These are the 20 use cars with the fastest rising prices in April:

Vehicle Average Price Year-Over-Year Change
Chevrolet Corvette $68,804 33.9%
Mercedes-Benz G-Class $148,937 33.2%
Ram 1500 $35,798 28.8%
GMC Sierra 1500 $42,347 28.6%
Mercedes-Benz S-Class $74,326 27.9%
Chevrolet Silverado 1500 $37,324 27.1%
Chevrolet Camaro $31,220 26.7%
Toyota Tundra $40,470 26.0%
Mitsubishi Mirage $11,242 25.9%
Land Rover Range Rover Sport $59,579 25.1%

Click here to read about the slowest-selling car in America.
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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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