Retail Price Index
The Autotrader Retail Price Index provides an overview of the latest retail price data from across the whole UK market.
Published monthly, our RPI provides an overview of the latest pricing data from our marketplace and across the retail market.
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As of March 2020, the methodology for the Autotrader Retail Price Index was adapted based on resegmentation of our data. We have regrouped car segments into more meaningful classifications of the different types of vehicles that consumers buy, from an even greater depth of data than before. As we now have a more detailed dataset, we have restated figures for prior periods to reflect the change in methodology.
The data for electric vehicles (EV) starts from September 2012 as at that point we began to record a sufficient volume of movements in the market to begin accurately analysing and producing year-on-year price movements.
Definitions
AFVs: alternatively fuelled vehicles – any vehicle powered by fuels alternative to petrol or diesel, including hybrids and plug-in hybrids.
EV: fully electric vehicles from all supported manufacturers.
Like-for-like: percentage price changes, after removing the impact of stock mix.
Mix growth: percentage of changes in the mix of stock across the retail market (the types of vehicles entering or leaving the market).
Price: the average advertised retail price of a used car seen by Autotrader across the whole retail market.
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