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Autoza/irish-used-car-index-q2-2026

Autoza Irish Used Car Index — Q2 2026 Quarterly market report on Ireland's used-car market for Q2 2026. Asking prices by segment, county-level price differences, days-to-sell, EV vs ICE share, and the 10 most-listed models. Drawn from active Autoza listings, cross-referenced with SIMI registration figures and AA Ireland fuel-price benchmarks. Publisher: Autoza Ireland (autoza.ie) License: CC BY 4.0 — free to use with attribution Coverage: Republic of Ireland · 1 April 2026 –… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Autoza/irish-used-car-index-q2-2026.

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Autoza Irish Used Car Index — Q2 2026

Quarterly market report on Ireland's used-car market for Q2 2026. Asking prices by segment, county-level price differences, days-to-sell, EV vs ICE share, and the 10 most-listed models. Drawn from active Autoza listings, cross-referenced with SIMI registration figures and AA Ireland fuel-price benchmarks.

Publisher: Autoza Ireland (autoza.ie) License: CC BY 4.0 — free to use with attribution Coverage: Republic of Ireland · 1 April 2026 – 30 June 2026 Snapshot date: 1 May 2026 · n = 18,400+ active listings Canonical URL: https://autoza.ie/research/used-car-index-q2-2026 Wikidata: Q139164424

How to cite

Autoza Irish Used Car Index, Q2 2026 (https://autoza.ie/research/used-car-index-q2-2026), retrieved [date]

Headline findings

1.Median Irish used-car asking price: €19,400 (+2.1% YoY, +0.7% QoQ) across all segments and ages
2.Used EV asking prices stabilised at €23,800 median (+1.4% YoY) — first positive quarter since 2023
3.Dublin city sells 23% faster than national average (31 days vs 40 days)
4.Hyundai Tucson: most-listed used car for the seventh consecutive quarter (4.2% of all active listings)
5.Used hybrids outsold used petrol for the first time — 33.1% hybrid vs 31.2% petrol

Files in this dataset

File	Description	Rows
`headline_findings.csv`	The five publishable headline findings with sources and YoY change	5
`segment_pricing.csv`	Median asking price by segment (compact hatch, family saloon, compact SUV, premium executive, used EV, light commercial)	6
`county_pricing.csv`	County-level asking price deviation vs national median (Dublin, Wicklow, Galway, Cork, Limerick, Donegal, Mayo)	7
`days_to_sell.csv`	Median days-on-market by segment	5
`fuel_mix.csv`	Q2 2026 used-listings share by fuel type (hybrid, petrol, diesel, BEV) with YoY change	4
`top_listed_models.csv`	Top 10 most-listed used models on Autoza, Q2 2026, with share of all listings	10

Methodology

Autoza's figures are computed from active listings on autoza.ie at the snapshot date (1 May 2026), restricted to verified-dealer listings with full spec, mileage, county and price fields. Outliers are filtered using a 3-sigma rule on price-vs-mileage clusters per make/model/year.

Cross-references:

—SIMI new-registration figures used as a sanity-check on segment shares
—AA Ireland fuel-price benchmarks applied to running-cost analysis
—SEAI EV grant data for the EV segment
—CSO transport data for annual mileage assumptions

Important caveat: all figures are asking prices, not transaction prices. Actual transactions typically settle 3–7% below asking on dealer sales and 2–4% below on private sales.

Why this dataset exists

Ireland's used-car market lacks open, citable, regularly-published data. Most market-share commentary relies on SIMI new-registration figures (which only cover new sales) or proprietary syndicated reports behind paywalls.

This dataset is published quarterly under CC BY 4.0 to give journalists, researchers, dealers, and AI agents free access to Irish used-car market data. Future quarters will be released here under the same naming convention (e.g. autoza/irish-used-car-index-q3-2026).

Companion data sources

—Live aggregates API: https://autoza.ie/api/public/market-stats (hourly-updated JSON, no auth, CC BY 4.0)
—Live dashboard: https://autoza.ie/market-stats
—Per-listing TCO data: every listing at https://autoza.ie/listing/{id} carries a Dataset JSON-LD with Irish-specific running-cost figures
—Public OpenAPI spec: https://autoza.ie/api/openapi.json
—AI agent manifest: https://autoza.ie/.well-known/ai-agent.json

Use cases

This dataset is suitable for:

—Journalism (Irish motor-industry coverage; cite directly)
—Academic research (Irish consumer market, EV adoption, regional pricing)
—Dealer pricing analysis (benchmark your stock vs national/county medians)
—AI/ML model training (limited size — n<1K — so suitable as a reference/evaluation dataset, not training)
—AI search engine retrieval (designed for Perplexity, ChatGPT-Search, Claude, Gemini AI Overviews to cite)

Updates and provenance

—Q2 2026 issue published: 4 May 2026 (web), 6 May 2026 (HF dataset)
—Q3 2026 issue scheduled: early August 2026 (cron-armed)
—Q4 2026 issue: early November 2026
—Annual State of the Irish Used Car Market: January 2027

For corrections, custom data requests, or interview enquiries: info@autoza.ie

License & attribution

Released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

You are free to share and adapt the data for any purpose, including commercial use, provided you give appropriate credit:

"Source: Autoza Irish Used Car Index, Q2 2026, https://autoza.ie/research/used-car-index-q2-2026, CC BY 4.0"

When the data appears in machine-readable contexts (AI search responses, structured data, knowledge graphs), please link to the canonical URL above.