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Some dealers and car supermarkets may take PXes (presumably like that Venga) to sell on at their site with much higher average annual mileages if they aren't so old, but probably only if they come with no MOT failures, are in immaculate condition and have a full main dealership service history.

I suspect gaps in that or evidence of not being cared for via more serious (and obvious) MOT failures would result in low value trade-ins and being sent to auction, similar to much older cars like mine.

I doubt any dealer gives a proverbial about past MOT failures - all they are worried about is the current MOT and whether the car is likely to come back and bite them. Beyond that they'll be looking at condition and overall retail appeal together whether it fits in with their other stock. However by far the most important thing is whether there is a decent margin in it!

Service history and things like past MOT failures have little or no retail appeal beyond things like whether it is due a major thing like a cambelt or something and whether it has a clean (ish) long MOT. Colour, spec, wheels and general look of the thing are far more important.

It is much easier to sell a car in a nice colour with nice wheels and a nice spec with a slightly iffy history than something poverty spec on 16" wheels in turd brown and 17 stamps in the book.

That might be true for some, higher spec / performance marques, but I think things are changing, because of how much prices of older second hand cars have risen, and because repairs are now both very expensive and cars have far more complex equipment on board (often crucial to the running of the car, including whether they pass its next MOT) that could go wrong.

People are becoming more discerning about what they spend their money on, because it doesn't go as far as it was 5 years ago

There is also a whole world of difference between a cheesy-looking poverty-spec car and a reasonable one shod on sensible wheels and tyres. If someone wants to spend loads more money on a sheep in wolf's clothing and £50 - £100 more per tyre replacement and which lasts half the time, gives a much firmer ride, then more fool them.

Eventually they will cotton on, especially if a supposedly 'immaculate' flashy 1-2yo car has been PXed so quickly - it may have been it has a horribly hard ride, or that it's had reliability issues that the previous owner got few up with dealing with and just got rid of it for something easier to live with.

Most of the quickest sellers of PXes with decent maintenance/MOT histories at my local KIA dealership are not that top spec/flashy new car type, but of that Venga, Ceed mid-spec type, the Venga in question being shod on sensible 205/55 R16 tyres. That and those from makes like Toyota and Lexus that are synonymous with reliability.