Everything here was counted before it was written.
318 articles, every one drawn from a named cut of the index. The figures are re-checked at 00:05 every night, and when one moves the article says so at the top — it is not quietly edited.
318articles published
284carrying live figures
9flagged as moved
0written by anyone paid by a seller
What used cars did in August 2026
Hatchbacks softened for a second month while electric estates rose again. The £10k–£15k band lost 2,460 cars — the only band shrinking two months running, and the one most people are shopping in.
Priya Raman, Data editorSep 20, 20264 min read
Drawn from452,120records, at 00:05 on 1 September
Read the reportReviews
One car, driven, against the price the index holds for it.
Price index
What the index did last month, band by band, published on the second.
Buying guides
A cut of the index explained — what is in it, and what it costs.
Running costs
Insurance, fuel, tax and servicing, measured over a real year.
Electric switching
Range, charging and what the used electric market actually holds.
Trade and specialists
Restorers, converters and body shops — how to brief and price them.
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The index moves every hour, so an article written from it is a record like any other. Every figure in the archive is re-checked at 00:05 against the live index, and one that has moved by more than a tenth of a percent is flagged at the top of its own page — not quietly corrected.
and6more, each flagged on its own page · every one of the318was re-checked at 00:05 this morning
What is re-checked, every night
- Every count the article prints, against the index at 00:05
- The asking price of every record it names
- Whether the cars in its cut are still listed at all
- The date the cut was taken, printed at the top of the page
What happens when one moves
- The article is flagged here and at the top of its own page
- The published figure stays in the text; the new one is printed beside it
- Nothing is edited without saying so, and the count of quiet edits is printed below
- If the movement overturns the argument the article is withdrawn, and that count is printed too
284carrying live figures
9flagged this morning
0edited without saying so
0withdrawn since 2019
Covers electric switching and running costs, measured over real years rather than lab figures.
64articles
9years on the beat
0press trips accepted
Fourteen years testing cars. Writes the reviews, and every collection on the site.
128articles
37collections
0cars kept after a test
Builds the price index. Every count on this site is one she can reproduce from the file.
96articles
12monthly reports
0figures published unchecked
One email a week, and one when a figure moves.
Follow a topic and the index writes to you when an article in it is published — then separately, later, if the figures in that article move. Nothing else is sent.
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