Drivers offloading 4x4s – or are they?

here's a recent item posted on the AM-Online website regarding 4x4's

A surge in people selling second hand cars or switching to more economical models has helped Auto Trader defy the advertising downturn, reported The Daily Telegraph.

The car classifieds magazine and website has seen private car sales up 6% in the year to September.

4x4s feature highly on Auto Trader’s sale list, with nearly 11,000 Land Rovers currently for sale on the website.

Trader Media, part owner of Auto Trader said the trend in private advertising sales was expected to continue.

“People switching to models that are cheaper to run and the sale of second cars are likely factors in the increase of private adverts,” said a spokesman.

An interesting follow-up comment from one frustrated sounding car dealer...

"Can we please keep things in persepctive and for our sanity keep it accurate.
Firstly, the demise of the 4x4 sector is being significantly overplayed and secondly Land Rovers for sales on the Autotrader Website has dropped from 12,700 cars in May to 10,788 today !!!! FACT, lets keep to them."