Article Summary

• August used car sales in US saw 3,867,892 units sold com­pared to August 2011’s 3,812,774, a 1.5% increase
• Pri­vate party (casual sales) up 10.5%, fran­chised up 3.3%, and inde­pen­dents down 6.6%
• Fran­chised deal­ers took approx­i­mately 38%, inde­pen­dent deal­ers sold 34%, and pri­vate party accounted for 27%