Auto Market

The 2nd largest of 23 markets measured · figures dated 1 November 2026

The used-car market in Spain

As of 1 November 2026, the median asking price of a used car advertised in Spain is EUR 16,250, at a median odometer reading of 85,000 km, measured across 1,064,881 live adverts.

Median asking price
EUR 16,25014th dearest of 23 markets
Median odometer
85,000 km
Live adverts
1,064,8812nd 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 with enough adverts in Spain to publish, largest first. Groups too small to publish are not shown; how the thresholds work. The share is of the adverts this service holds for Spain, so it describes the forecourt rather than the national fleet.

PowertrainAdvertsShareMedian price
Petrol 441,360 41.4% EUR 14,750
Diesel 388,139 36.5% EUR 14,500
Petrol hybrid, plug-in status unknown 173,474 16.3% EUR 22,000
Electric (BEV) 26,213 2.5% EUR 27,000
Petrol plug-in hybrid 22,655 2.1% EUR 30,000
LPG (incl. petrol/LPG bi-fuel) 8,151 0.8% EUR 13,500
Unknown 3,281 0.3% EUR 20,000
Diesel hybrid, plug-in status unknown 1,078 0.1% EUR 45,000
CNG / biomethane (incl. petrol/CNG bi-fuel) 420–430 0.0% EUR 12,500
Other, stated by source as other 80–90 0.0% EUR 14,000

Bringing a car into Spain

What a country charges to put a foreign car on its own plates is usually the largest term in a cross-border comparison: on one identical EUR 15,000 car it runs from about EUR 33 to about EUR 16,000 across Europe. Every figure below carries the document it came from and the date it was last checked. Where we have not verified one, this page says so instead of printing a number.

Registration tax

—Not published

We do not yet publish registration tax for this country. Every figure here has to be traceable to an official document we have verified, and we hold no verified source for this charge. It is left blank rather than shown as zero: across Europe this charge runs from about EUR 33 to about EUR 16,000 on the same car, so blanks read as zeroes would make the dearest countries look the cheapest. Treat it as an unknown cost, not an absent one.

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VAT

21% Verified

Standard VAT rate as published by the European Commission's Taxes in Europe database. Shown for reference only. Whether VAT is actually due on a used car depends on the transaction rather than on the country, so no VAT charge is calculated anywhere in this service; the cases are set out in the method.

Read from this record in the source database, shown exactly as it was returned:

ES STANDARD DEFAULT 21.0 2026-07-01+02:00 European Commission, DG TAXUD — Taxes in Europe Database (TEDB). Retrieved 6 September 2026; last checked 6 September 2026.

Tolls and road charges

Distance-based Verified

Motorway tolls are charged by distance travelled. A partial network: the AP-1, AP-2, AP-4 and AP-7 concessions reverted to the state between 2018 and 2021, leaving about 1,435 km of directly tolled motorway. The Catalan C-32 and C-33 are tolled separately. Cited to a concessionaire because the ministry's own page refuses this host.

se le aplique la tarifa adecuada AUDASA — Vías de peaje. Retrieved 6 September 2026; last checked 6 September 2026.

The limits below are the ones that attach to a worked example: a car first registered in 2019, old enough that no age-based exemption changes the answer. A newer car can be answered differently, and the records above say on what.

Where these numbers come from

Spain 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.