The earthquake disaster, the epicenter of which was Kahramanmaraş, affected 10 provinces and stifled our country, deeply affected the automobile market.
Carrying out an analysis on this issue, Arabam.com made the following statements: “During February, while there was a decrease in the vehicle inspection rate of consumers due to mourning, it was observed that consumers in earthquake regions wanted to sell their vehicles due to their needs. In February, an average of 30% increase was seen in the number of individual user advertisements on Arabam.com in the provinces affected by the earthquake. In February, vehicles up to 300,000 TL were included in the advertisements. The most advertised vehicles were the models of 2012, 2011 and 2016. My second-hand car, which was categorized according to basic data such as 5 categories, 10 brands, 10 car models and years, 10 terrain/SUV/Pick-up models, fuel types, gear types, engine volumes, km values, which were most frequently seen in advertisements throughout February. com analysis is as follows: In February, cars made up 70% of used car ads on Arabam.com. Automobiles were followed by light commercial vehicles, off-road vehicles, commercial vehicles and motorcycles. Advertisements such as tractors and agricultural machinery accounted for 1%.
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Renault, Fiat, Volkswagen, Ford, Opel, Hyundai, Peugeot, Toyota, Honda and Citroen were the brands most frequently seen in the ads on Arabam.com. Looking at the ads in terms of models, the most advertised car models in February were Clio, Astra, Megane, Focus, Egea, Focus, Corolla, Passat and Civic, respectively. These models were followed by Polo and Corsa, respectively. Considering the proportional evaluation of the 2nd hand Land/SUV/Pick-up ads published on Arabam.com, Dacia Duster was the most popular model with 22%. Duster was followed by Nissan Qashqai, Kia Sportage, Hyundai Tucson, Mitsubishi L 200, Volkswagen Tiguan, Nissan Juke, Peueot 3008, Chevrolet Captiva and Egea Cross, respectively. The vehicles with the highest number of advertisements on Arabam.com in February were the 2012 models with a rate of 6.6%. 2012 model vehicles were followed by 2011 and 2016 model vehicles with 6.1% and 6% respectively. Vehicles dating back to 2000 and before constituted 14.4% of the advertisements, as in December.
In the ads on Arabam.com, vehicle ads with engine volumes between 1.2 – 1.4 and 1.4-1.6 are seen more. Vehicles with engine displacement between 1.2 and 1.4 accounted for 29%, while vehicles with engine displacement between 1.4 and 1.6 accounted for 51% of the advertisements. The rate of advertisements with an engine volume of 2001 cm3 and above remained at 4%. Vehicles with 200.000 TL and below constituted the highest share with 20.4%. Vehicles in the 200,001 TL – 300,000 TL range made up 20.2% of the advertisements, 16.6 on the 300,001 TL – 400.000 TL vehicles, and 13.6% on the vehicles between 400,001 TL – 500,000 TL. Vehicles of 800,000 TL or more made up 10.2% of the advertisements.
It is seen that the largest share in the distribution of advertisements by transmission type is for manual transmission vehicles. Manual transmission vehicles made up 68% of the advertisements, while semi-automatic transmission vehicles made up 13% of the advertisements. The advertisement rate of automatic transmission vehicles increased by 2% and took place in the 19% segment. When Arabam.com ads were analyzed by fuel type, the rate of diesel vehicles was 53.48%. LPG vehicles took the second place with a rate of 26.61%. Gasoline vehicles made up 19.33% of the advertisements. Gasoline vehicles were followed by hybrid and electric vehicles, respectively. Ads in the second hand market in February are at most 200,001 km- 300,000 km. given for vehicles between, this km. The announcement rate of the vehicles in the range was 28%. 100,001 km. – 150,000 km. Announcement rates of vehicles in the range of 150.00 – 200.000 km were 16%. Announcement rates of vehicles in the range were 18%. 300,000 km. The rate of announcement of the vehicles on the vehicle was 11%.”