We might still call it the decade that taste forgot – but 1970s car colours are making a comeback. That’s according to the latest consumer research data, crunched by the car valuation experts CAP Automotive. CAP has identified a resurgence of interest among consumers in green, beige, gold, bronze, brown, yellow and even orange cars – all shades that have been shunned in the mainstream car market...
Pressure on used car trade values is set to mount in the next few weeks, according to the independent pricing experts CAP Automotive. A bumper new car month in March spells significant imminent increases in supply as hundreds of thousands of part-exchange cars return to the market – just as the Easter holidays herald a typical seasonal slowdown in demand. That’s the view of CAP Automotive’s Black...
HPI and CAP Automotive reveal the real cost of clocking for used car buyers. ‘Clocking’, where fraudsters drop the mileage on a vehicle to boost its apparent value and cheat unsuspecting buyers out of their hard-earned cash, still remains a real threat for used car buyers, warns HPI, the provider of www.hpicheck.com . To highlight this, HPI has joined forces with CAP Automotive, the premier...
We’re really proud of the quality of our data. And we’re 100% confident that it is the best of its kind. So confident, in fact, that we are challenging our competitors to prove they can match the accuracy of CAP New Vehicle Data. We think they would be unwise to even try. Recent experience shows what happens in real life when one of our competitors persuades a customer that they are stronger than...
Revolutionary car sales website carcliq.co.uk and CAP, the UK’s leader in vehicle valuation, have joined forces to match car buyers with perfect deals from the best dealers. Under the partnership, consumers get free access to CAP’s industry-renowned independent online car valuation service in return for submitting their personal details. Car dealers working with CarCliq then receive high quality...
Speculation that gas guzzlers face a resurgence thanks to falling fuel prices is a ‘schoolboy error’, according to CAP Automotive, the independent motoring cost information experts. High road tax for less efficient engines continues to outweigh any possible savings in fuel, despite pump prices falling to a five-year low. Throw into the running costs mix typically higher insurance, service,...
New forecasting methods for residual values introduced by CAP a year ago have proved successful, with the used car market ending the year within three per cent of Gold Book forecasts for the major sectors. With forecast accuracy as close as 0.6% for the fleet flagship lower medium sector, CAP is confident that Gold Book represents the most demonstrably reliable independent forecasting tool in the...
Better used value retention than BMW 3 Series, Audi A4 and Volkswagen Passat has been forecast for the new Ford Mondeo. CAP Gold Book – the independent authority on future used car value benchmarking for the automotive industry – also expects the new Mondeo to be worth £1,750 more, after three years, than the previous model was at three years old. That’s the biggest uplift any version of the...
