Used Cars > New Cars?

First of all let me explain that I have and always will be a new car buyer. Why? I put it down to the satisfaction gained from knowing that no other has had their paws on it! However, looking at the roads lately it seems that there are less new cars being driven than ever before. Of course, this is no doubt due to the current credit crunch that we find ourselves in but nonetheless, I am quite surprised at the amount of the new registrations that I seen. It seems that more and more people then are turning to used cars if they are upgrading – many are not even doing that and are simply keeping what they have got. So we are nearly half way through October, which is around six weeks since the new registrations were introduced to the cars market and being honest, I must have seen around a dozen 58 plates on the roads. However, people around me are indeed upgrading their cars but not for a new vehicle. Instead it is a short trip to the local used cars dealer who they visit and bargain with for an upgrade. I remember the good old days where on the 1st of March and the 1st of September there would be a huge influx of new cars being sent out in to the open from the local dealers and car manufacturers up and down the country. Let’s hope by the time the 2009 registrations are due to be released, these good old times will re-ignite.