The 6th largest of 23 markets measured · figures dated 1 November 2026
The used-car market in France
As of 1 November 2026, the median asking price of a used car advertised in France is EUR 20,000, at a median odometer reading of 62,000 km, measured across 411,577 live adverts.
- Median asking price
- EUR 20,0006th dearest of 23 markets
- Median odometer
- 62,000 km
- Live adverts
- 411,5776th largest market here
- Powertrains published
- 11
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 France 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 France, so it describes the forecourt rather than the national fleet.
| Powertrain | Adverts | Share | Median price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Petrol | 186,299 | 45.3% | EUR 18,750 |
| Diesel | 120,653 | 29.3% | EUR 16,500 |
| Petrol hybrid, plug-in status unknown | 54,777 | 13.3% | EUR 26,000 |
| Electric (BEV) | 25,337 | 6.2% | EUR 25,500 |
| Other, stated by source as other | 8,584 | 2.1% | EUR 30,000 |
| Unknown | 7,496 | 1.8% | EUR 25,000 |
| LPG (incl. petrol/LPG bi-fuel) | 3,568 | 0.9% | EUR 15,500 |
| Petrol plug-in hybrid | 3,096 | 0.8% | EUR 33,250 |
| Diesel hybrid, plug-in status unknown | 1,175 | 0.3% | EUR 38,000 |
| Ethanol E85 / FFV | 537 | 0.1% | EUR 17,000 |
| CNG / biomethane (incl. petrol/CNG bi-fuel) | 40–50 | 0.0% | EUR 13,000 |
Bringing a car into France
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 publishedWe 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
20% VerifiedStandard 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:
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Tolls and road charges
Distance-based VerifiedMotorway tolls are charged by distance travelled. Concession motorways only — the state-managed network is free. Cited to a concessionaire because the industry body's own site could not be fetched with a verified certificate chain.
Et le prix payé dépend de la distance parcourue
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.
- Registration tax in the destination is not covered here. Treat that charge as unknown, not zero.
- Transport, plate and administration fees, VAT treatment and customs duty are not included anywhere in this service. Nothing on this page is a landed cost.
Where these numbers come from
France 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.