comment: Richard Draycott, Isuzu Truck (UK) sales director
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Second-hand Isuzus with full service history and automated transmission are always popular with customers
pay top dividends Full-service histories
WE HAVE FOUND THAT the secondhand truck market has been quite buoyant in recent times, especially following the slowdown in new truck sales over the last few years. We find it is vehicles that have a with the Easyshift transmission is by far the full-service history, and have been maintained by our dealer network, that
move faster than others. At 7.5 tonnes, the Isuzu Forward 4x2 rigid
most popular vehicle. In particular, those trucks fitted with either refrigerated, curtain-sided, or box bodies are in high demand, as too are those chassis/cabs specified with tipper bodies. At 3.5 tonnes, we have started to see a growth in demand in the last year or so, especially for those vehicles that have our factory-fitted bodies on them. Word has got round that our factory-fitted bodies
are very durable, reliable and built to a high specification.
The Euro-6 effect
For the future, we are still waiting to see what effect the introduction of Euro-6 will have on the second-hand market of Isuzus. If will tell on this. there is reluctance by customers to purchase
period of time. vehicles and this has, quite significantly, built up a strong, buoyant, second-hand market for our vehicles and, I'm pleased to say, with their respective values holding up during this new Euro-6 vehicles, for whatever reason, then we will inevitably see continued demand for good, used Euro-5 vehicles — only time consider the option of buy-backs on all our At Isuzu, we have always been happy to