{"id":788444,"date":"2026-10-01T10:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T10:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/788444\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T10:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T10:36:08","slug":"secondhand-porsches-sell-to-people-with-humble-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/788444\/","title":{"rendered":"Secondhand Porsches &#8216;sell to people with humble beginnings&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Walker&#8217;s own interest in the motor trade was sparked on a family trip to Edinburgh as a boy, when he walked past a brand new supercar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That prompted him to ask his dad what job he should do when he was older, and his dad said city trader, estate agent or car sales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After college, he worked in telesales and did not enjoy it, but said it was hard to get into car sales at the time, as main dealers wanted people with experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He eventually got a job at a local car supermarket with long hours and a high volume of work, but with a chance to learn the basics of sales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He went on to work for mainstream and luxury car brands before deciding it was time to set up his own dealership, with support from a local investor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They began with three cars and it was a mix of everything, said Walker: &#8220;we had Ford Fiestas to start off with, then a Rolls-Royce Cullinan and a Bentley Continental.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Today the average price of a car in stock is around \u00a390,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In comparison, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/visualisations\/housingpriceslocal\/E06000021\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">average price of a house in Stoke-on-Trent, external<\/a> in 2026 was \u00a3147,000. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The first time he sold a car for more than \u00a3200,000, Walker said he &#8220;was absolutely buzzing&#8221; but now it has become the norm, &#8220;which is a bit crazy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walker&#8217;s own interest in the motor trade was sparked on a family trip to Edinburgh as a boy,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-788444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}