Market 1 of 23 · release 2026-09-06
The used-car market in Germany
As of 6 September 2026, the median asking price of a used car advertised in Germany is EUR 25,000, at a median odometer reading of 36,000 km, measured across 902,592 live adverts.
- Median asking price
- EUR 25,0002nd dearest of 23 markets
- Median odometer
- 36,000 km
- Live adverts
- 902,5921st largest market here
- Powertrains published
- 10
Prices are rounded to the nearest EUR 250 and mileage to 1,000 km, and every figure is a median over live adverts — not over sales.
What is on the market
Every powertrain Germany publishes enough of to clear the disclosure floor, largest first. The share is of the adverts this service holds for Germany, so it describes the forecourt rather than the national fleet.
| Powertrain | Adverts | Share | Median price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Petrol | 470,832 | 52.2% | EUR 22,000 |
| Diesel | 275,069 | 30.5% | EUR 26,250 |
| Petrol hybrid, plug-in status unknown | 85,636 | 9.5% | EUR 32,750 |
| Electric (BEV) | 61,654 | 6.8% | EUR 37,500 |
| Diesel hybrid, plug-in status unknown | 4,830 | 0.5% | EUR 50,000 |
| LPG (incl. petrol/LPG bi-fuel) | 2,882 | 0.3% | EUR 20,750 |
| CNG / biomethane (incl. petrol/CNG bi-fuel) | 711 | 0.1% | EUR 10,000 |
| Unknown | 470–480 | 0.1% | EUR 21,750 |
| Other, stated by source as other | 320–330 | 0.0% | EUR 22,000 |
| Hydrogen | 160–170 | 0.0% | EUR 14,500 |
Bringing a car into Germany
What a destination charges to put a foreign car on its own plates is the term that dominates a cross-border comparison: on one identical EUR 15,000 car it ranges from about EUR 33 to about EUR 16,000 across Europe. Every figure below carries the document it came from and the date somebody last checked it. Where we have not verified one, this page says so rather than printing a plausible number — an unverified rate and a verified one look identical a month later.
Registration tax
None exactGermany levies no registration tax. The Kraftfahrzeugsteuer is a charge on *keeping* a vehicle on the road, payable a year in advance and recurring, not a one-off levy on putting a foreign car onto German plates. What a used import does cost at the registration office is an administrative fee under the road traffic fee schedule, plus the plates, which the office does not supply — both excluded here like every other fee.
das Halten von inländischen Fahrzeugen zum Verkehr auf öffentlichen Straßen
Die Steuer ist jeweils für die Dauer eines Jahres im Voraus zu entrichten.
VAT
19% exactStandard VAT rate as published by the European Commission's Taxes in Europe database on 2026-09-06. It is stated here as reference, and no VAT charge is computed anywhere in this service: the rate is not the hard part. A used car bought from a dealer under the margin scheme carries no deductible destination VAT on the price at all, a private sale carries none, and a car that is under six months old or has at or under 6,000 km is a new means of transport and is taxed at this rate on the full price whoever the parties are. Which of those applies is a fact about the transaction, not about the country, and this catalogue does not hold it.
DE STANDARD DEFAULT 19.0 2026-07-01+02:00 VAT - Import -
Tolls and road charges
No general charge exactNo general road charge applies to a passenger car. The passenger-car toll legislated in 2015 never took effect. The Warnow tunnel in Rostock and the Herren tunnel in Lübeck charge cars per passage.
vehicles subject to toll are defined as all domestic and foreign motor vehicles or vehicle combinations with a Technically Permissible Maximum Laden Mass of more than 3.5 tonnes
The caveats below are the ones that attach to a worked example: a car first registered in 2019, which is old enough to clear every age threshold the catalogue models. A newer car can be answered differently, and the record above says on what.
- The registration figure is the tax alone. Plate and administration fees are excluded rather than estimated.
- Transport, plate and administration fees, VAT treatment and customs duty are not modelled anywhere in this service. Nothing on this page is a landed cost.
Where these numbers come from
Germany is one of 23 national markets this service measures daily from public marketplace listings. The published figures are aggregates: a median needs at least 20 adverts behind it, a quartile at least 50, and counts below 500 are published as a band rather than exactly. No advert, seller or individual price is ever published. The full method is here.