260 UK Sales per month.

[David]

This summary shows the number of ZT 260s and Rover 75V8s known to have been sold per month since 31 December 2017.
Only UK sales are taken into account and the data is taken from the Annual 'Complete List of 260s SOLD' and the 'Monthly Ins-and-Outs' threads, updated daily over the period. I hope you find it interesting.

sales UK2.jpg


Sorry if readability of the screen-shot rendition above is less than good, but Facebook 'Two-Sixties' Group members can download the underlying Excel sheet from the link here:

https://www.facebook.com/download/51...sAh67c&__cft__[0]=AZVtPuvIhSQ4I5ic_FK49FlE4i9_-4Em3JWwixpm5vA7lx4QMppyWilT02fOjwK8zl9b2ugxWKk6ETy 4O9Jo6gJSd_dcmxwIkAJ-l4xCIncl0maYJs4fBmICFkiXAp6iuhoY_l7diOwmM14kowXxKi 0tRdl7PtCygMv2kQJQvHStVA&__tn__=H-R

David

[Nich]

Many thanks David, very helpful.

Nich.

[Tim]

Interesting stuff. No surprise numbers are starting to drop.

[jeff turbo]

Summer months are the time to sell then, interesting reading

[David]

Summer months are the time to sell then, interesting reading

Yes, particularly August/September. The month of July is a little slacker, fairly consistently.

May and June, is generally OK-ish, as surprisingly is February in 80% of the years covered.
Currently in January, rather in the "doldrums" of course!

5 years is a rather small sample to reliably show trends, further affected by little things like COVID, war, recession, inflation and global warming ... and Liz Truss of course. I think that the patterns are sufficiently regular to give some indication of the best time to go to market though.

David

[jeff turbo]

Yes, particularly August/September. The month of July is a little slacker, fairly consistently.

May and June, is generally OK-ish, as surprisingly is February in 80% of the years covered.
Currently in January, rather in the "doldrums" of course!

5 years is a rather small sample to reliably show trends, further affected by little things like COVID, war, recession, inflation and global warming ... and Liz Truss of course. I think that the patterns are sufficiently regular to give some indication of the best time to go to market though.

David

June-September are during the show season and as would normally be very hot and sunny. Maybe that affects the buying public? Politics I wouldn't have thought affects much. These are now a collectable car, prices are about right for them and buyers have more disposable income to look for one

[stevemiller]

Thanks David, not that I ever plan to sell.

[David]

... Politics I wouldn't have thought affects much... buyers have more disposable income to look for one

Agree, except that you can never ignore it, when the economic environment, and disposable income are both pretty much dependent on it.
Rather unpredictable as a result though.

David

[David]

Another new year, and time to update the graph. Now shows UK sales combined (Rover 75 V8 and MG ZT 260), 2020 to current date (01/2024).

UK Sales to 01-2024.jpg

The original Excel sheet on which the image is based, and therefore perhaps more easily read, is in the Files section of the Two-Sixties Facebook group pages under the filename 260_UK_Sales.xlsx for Download by Group members.

Download Link:
https://www.facebook.com/download/10...D4kaC0&__cft__[0]=AZWftdJ3u6ejbzGxRd1cAFgiPL5fR3Chl1EfPSTnmLYlhvB07 H_m9RyTZ0VPt4EtrFTyiXs8QKmOSGg0aPmNiUOPHdgowraCCJ9 5NPnDe8N3JBOIK8GHJJd_p3Esd_K6qKQpkDZfiGvv5bwaJlDPH 4iVCMnq-6wdiQUsWRLAZRzMuA&__tn__=H-R

David