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A bit crazy : How the booming US used car market is driving inflation

Last month, Carey Cherner, a 36-year-old used car dealer in Kensington, Maryland, sold a 2001 Ford F-150 pickup truck in less than 12 hours. The mileage is 184,000 miles. It sells for $7,500-50% higher than usual. Cherner’s experience is not one-off in the US used car market, where prices are rising rapidly. The industry is at the core of the country’s growing inflationary pressures and has therefore become a subject of great interest to policymakers in Washington. “There are more people buying cars than there are cars on the market, which makes it a little crazy,” Cerner said. Unusually, officials pay close attention to used car prices as an indicator of future inflation paths. If price increases become entrenched and spread to other parts of the economy, the United States may face prolonged overheating for the first time in decades. Presented a big challenge Economic decision makers at the Federal Reserve and Joe Biden.

Kind of crazy : How the U S used car market is causing rising inflation

COMMENTARY: Independent dealers are poised to thrive as driving force in recovery

COMMENTARY: Independent dealers are poised to thrive as driving force in recovery NextGear Capital president Scott Maybee. Images courtesy of the company. Wednesday, May. 19, 2021, 11:02 AM By Scott Maybee CARMEL, Ind. -  Despite tight inventory, total used-vehicle sales in April were up 69% compared to April 2020, according to my colleague, Cox Automotive chief economist Jonathan Smoke, who is forecasting full-year retail used-vehicle sales will reach 21.5 million, an increase from 19.7 million in 2020.  At 60,000 strong, independent dealers are the backbone of our industry and a driving force in the auto market’s recovery. They account for nearly 70% of all wholesale auction purchases and more than half of retail used-vehicle sales.

Rental companies snapping up used cars as chip crisis gets worse

A semiconductor shortage has affected vehicle production.  This means there is a shortage of cars - and rental-car companies can t get the new cars they need.  The demand is sending the cost of used cars soaring.  The semiconductor shortage has slashed vehicle production so much that rental-car companies can’t get the new cars they need, so they have resorted to buying used vehicles at auction. This is uncharted territory for the likes of Hertz Global Holdings and Enterprise Holdings, which have made their profits by purchasing new vehicles cheaply in bulk, renting them out for as much as a year and selling them at auction. In the past, they

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