{"id":449628,"date":"2026-01-31T13:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T13:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/449628\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T13:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T13:47:12","slug":"more-australians-buying-used-cars-from-dealers-as-private-sales-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/449628\/","title":{"rendered":"More Australians buying used cars from dealers as private sales fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"authorAvatar-module-scss-module__DR0ZcW__drive-author-avatar__link authorBio-module-scss-module__bK84Cq__drive-author-bio__name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.drive.com.au\/about-drive\/our-journalists\/tung-nguyen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/dujo7iyolyrt0rkbcfnv.webp\" alt=\"Tung Nguyen\" height=\"48\" width=\"48\" class=\"image-module-scss-module__yfnysa__drive-image authorAvatar-module-scss-module__DR0ZcW__drive-author-avatar__img bg-gray-200\"\/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tungy_nguyen\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"width:1.75rem;height:1.75rem\" class=\"followIcons-module-scss-module__9No8sG__drive-social__link bg-black\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media.drive.com.au\/obj\/tx_dpr:2,q:80,rs:auto:16:16:1,style:cGF0aCB7ZmlsbDogI2ZmZmZmZiAhaW1wb3J0YW50fQ==\/driveau\/upload\/cms\/theme\/icons_v3\/Instagram\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Visit Instagram page\" class=\"drive-icon drive-icon-InstagramIcon followIcons-module-scss-module__9No8sG__drive-social__icon\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"authorBio-module-scss-module__bK84Cq__drive-author-bio__description\">Tung Nguyen has been in the automotive journalism industry for over a decade, cutting his teeth at various publications before finding himself at Drive in 2024. With experience in news, feature, review, and advice writing, as well as video presentation skills, Tung is a do-it-all content creator. Tung\u2019s love of cars first started as a child watching Transformers on Saturday mornings, as well as countless hours on PlayStation\u2019s Gran Turismo, meaning his dream car is a Nissan GT-R, with a Liberty Walk widebody kit, of course.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link-module-scss-module__xVbT9q__drive-link__external__wrapper authorBio-module-scss-module__bK84Cq__drive-author-bio__link link-module-scss-module__xVbT9q__drive-link__external__float-right\" href=\"https:\/\/www.drive.com.au\/about-drive\/our-journalists\/tung-nguyen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Read more about Tung Nguyen<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media.drive.com.au\/obj\/tx_dpr:2,q:80,rs:auto:20:20:1,style:cGF0aCB7ZmlsbDogIzI5NjBjNSAhaW1wb3J0YW50fQ==\/driveau\/upload\/cms\/theme\/icons\/LinkIcon\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" alt=\"LinkIcon\" class=\"drive-icon drive-icon-LinkIcon link-module-scss-module__xVbT9q__drive-link__external__icon\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tung Nguyen has been in the automotive journalism industry for over a decade, cutting his teeth at various&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[232585,64,63,232586,73799,99,232587,159087,9981,232588,139312,18841,38980],"class_list":["post-449628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-aada","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-used-car-market","tag-automotive-industry","tag-business","tag-car-buying","tag-car-dealerships","tag-market-trends","tag-private-car-sales","tag-second-hand-cars","tag-used-cars","tag-vfacts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}