Southeast Asia Used Cars Market Size - By Vehicle, By Sales Channel, By Fuel, By End Use, By Vehicle Age, By Price Range, Growth Forecast, 2025 - 2034

Southeast Asia Used Cars Market Size

The Southeast Asia used cars market size was estimated at USD 18.1 billion in 2024. The market is expected to grow from USD 18.7 billion in 2025 to USD 27.7 billion in 2034, at a CAGR of 4.5%.

• The used car industry in Southeast Asia is moving towards a new model based on an ecosystem of technology-driven reselling. The rapid adoption of electric vehicles (EVs), adoption of Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS), and an increase in digital commerce are turning used cars into high precision mobility assets rather than depreciating automobiles.
   
• With the change in mobility preferences, the push towards connectivity and electrification in the automotive industry, used car platforms are adapting to new technologies, by welcoming advanced diagnostics, telematics, and AI-based pricing engines.
   
• Key market participants are figuring out partnerships and adopting tech-driven solutions to improve transparency and building confidence in this used car environment. As an example, ahead of the Indonesian car market in May 2025, Astra and Toyota are deepening their strategic relationship and alliance in the used automotive segment in Indonesia by collaborating in PT Astra Digital Mobil (ADMO).
   
• With the strength of the expansive automotive ecosystem combined with the technological knowhow and the wide network of Astra Group and Toyota respectively, ADMO can easily disrupt the used car industry, which can make high-quality vehicles, financing, insurance, and after sales services accessible to customers in Indonesia on a wide scale.
   
• The emerging EVs and ADAS-connected vehicles penetration is transforming the used car market in Southeast Asia. Despite remaining a niche market, the second-hand BEVs and PHEVs segments will develop rapidly owing to the turnover of fleet vehicles and early adopters.
   
• The expanded supply of 1-3-year-old cars that include Level 1-2 autonomy features drive, like lane centering system and impact caution, is influencing purchaser decisions. Digital-native buyers are now requesting authorized battery health reports, OTA update support, safety tech spillover of newer models, which is improving residual values and trust in used EV purchases.
   
• The used car business in Southeast Asia is gaining traction in supply due to the organizing of fleet de-fleeting, the increasing cross-border commerce, and the advanced refurbishment networks. B2C and export markets are being driven by high mileage but quality fleet vehicles, particularly Indonesia and Thailand.
   
• Thailand and Malaysia are becoming regional centers of refurbishment, with inspections, repainting, and drivetrain conditioning before resale in the country, or export to Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar. Vietnam and the Philippines are slowly liberalizing their import policies, which is boosting inbound traffic of used Japanese and Korean units. Vehicle grading with AI, digital inspections, and central reconditioning hubs such as the Carsome Certified Lab are streamlining vehicle quality and cutting down time-to-resale.
   

Southeast Asia Used Cars Market Trends

• In 2023, with the introduction of electric vehicles (EVs) into the used vehicle market, especially in major cities such as Singapore, Bangkok, and Jakarta, had driven the market growth. With entry of early-generation EVs and plug-in hybrids into the secondary market, battery health diagnostics is now paramount in ascertaining residual value and consumer confidence.
   
• EV analytics companies such as Carro and Carsome are mapping integrated battery analytics and SoH (State-of-Health) reporting to useful resale pricing and warranties. As the supply of de-fleeted electric ride-hailing cars and individual EV trade-in is likely to continue growing until 2027, battery certification tools and industry-wide EV trade-in protocols will become a core component of determining market liquidity and sustainable ownership models across Southeast Asia.
   
• Since 2022, the online vehicular transaction and contactless shopping boom has led to accelerated integration of AI-based inspection systems and computer vision into vehicle grading in Southeast Asia. Online marketplace such as Carsome and OLX Autos have incorporated deep learning models that enable them to identify panel anomalies, predict wear-and-tear levels, and determine condition scores on the fly without traditional manual inspection models. This change in technology has played a critical role in extending regional reconditioning capacity as well as facilitating the ability to trust in cross-border transactions.
   
• OEMs such as Honda, Toyota, and Mitsubishi have grown their certified used car programs, in Southeast Asia, to reach post-warranty customers by reselling their vehicles via structured channels. One such example is the cooperation between Toyota Asia Pacific and Carro, where warranty-based, ADAS-compatible used cars with confirmed service records can be purchased.
   
• These programs use digital service records that are VIN-based and diagnostics that use OTA to guarantee vehicle quality and compliance. The incorporation of lifecycle analytics can enable OEMs to lengthen brand interaction, in addition to enhancing fleet use. As of 2028, certified resale programs will have a bigger share in used vehicle sales, creating consolidation around branded platforms that have financing and warranty systems infrastructure built into them.
   
• In Southeast Asia, integration of fintech on used car platforms since 2022 has transformed vehicle ownership opportunities to low-income consumers and semi-urban markets. Embedded financing, on-demand credit decisioning, bundled insurance as well as flexible ownership models such as subscription or buyback plans are now available in platforms such as Carro and Carsome Capital.
   
• These services are enabled by real-time vehicle data, telematics and resale predictability models that minimize underwriting risk. These financing models will also become more customized to the depreciation of battery, as well as the longevity of the ADAS system, as used vehicle prices stabilize, and the interest in EVs grows. It is projected that in 2029, the embedded financial services will continue to encourage increased volume of transactions, reduced instances of default and new avenues of growth within rural and unreachable geographies.
   

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• The trend has been enhanced by the emergence of compact and mid-size SUVs, including the Nissan Qashqai, Volkswagen Tiguan, and the Peugeot 3008. In Southeast Asia, used SUVs are sold, averaging a transaction price of USD 11,000, showing that SUVs are in high demand and bear higher price ranks than other body styles.
   
• The premium brands, such as BMW and Audi, have also experienced popularity in the used SUV market, as high-end SUVs once used by the wealthier clientele that combine the aspects of performance, status, and utility. This trend of increased and growing demand of used car SUVs is rising, due to the shifting consumer demand and a greater variety of models coming into the used car pipeline.
   
• Sedans are gaining impact in Southeast Asia used car market. The legendary models, such as Volkswagen Jetta, Skoda Octavia, Ford Mondeo and others, are still popular choices among families and school runners. Sedans held a market share of over 15% of second hand car purchases in major Southeast Asia markets in 2024.
   
• The emergence of electrification, and low-emission standards has started to affect the new sedan category, though the used car market proposes a vast array of gasoline and diesel low fuel consumption vehicles.
   

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Based on end use, the Southeast Asia used cars market is segmented into personal and commercial. The personal segment dominates the market with 71% share in 2024, and the segment is expected to grow at a CAGR of over 4% from 2025 to 2034.
 

• The Southeast Asia used car market is entirely dominated by personal use buyers who make up about 71% of total B2C purchases by 2024. The demand is largely fueled by the increasing middle-class in Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines where affordability of new vehicles is a restriction to first time buyers.
   
• The segment will be particularly strong with the introduction of digital retail innovations by Carsome, Carro, and OLX Autos, making it easier to access funding to purchase a vehicle, digital paperwork, and home delivery. Millennials and Gen Z customers in the top-most and Tier-II cities are becoming more interested in owning flexible and affordable cars and customizing them according to personal preferences, driving the trend towards sedans, hatchbacks, and subcompact utility vehicles.
   
• Lightly used electric vehicles (EVs) and ADAS-enabled hybrids resale is slowly becoming a reality, especially in Singapore and Malaysia, where the young tech-savvy customers are willing to buy OTA-adjusted infotainment systems and pre-inspected battery health diagnostics.
   
• Exit barriers are decreasing with digital inspection and trade-in tools and vehicle replacement cycles are getting more compressed to 35 years. By 2028-2030, the personal segment will move towards a digitally supplemented ownership movement, with embedded services, subscription financing and software-based upgrades delivering loyalty and lifecycle value in urban and peri-urban markets.
   
• Although the commercial segment is not part of the volume compared with personal ownership, it is essential in providing the market with consistent, high-mileage used inventory, especially with planned de-fleeting of ride-hailing, leasing, and last-mile delivery fleets. This pipeline has been filled since 2021 by operators such as Grab, Gojek, and even local logistics companies, which release vehicles after 34 years of intensive use. These are normally sedan, MPV, and small vans that are run through the centralized refurbishing centers within Malaysia and Thailand, through overarching arrangements such as the reconditioning shops that Carsome owns.
   
• Utilization trends in this market vary with personal ownership, cars rack up miles fast and are frequently in need of drivetrain and braking component repair and sometimes have telematics records that are used to grade resale. It is presumed here that the increase in electrification of commercial fleets (especially in e-commerce logistics and ride-hailing in Singapore and Jakarta) will bring into the market early-cycle used EVs, where reliable measurement of battery performance certification and residual value forecasting would be needed.
   
• Also, fleet management businesses and leasing industries are investing in predictive measuring of AI-led tools to optimize asset recovery. After 2030, the commercial used car segment will evolve into structured secondary-fleet economy that is controlled through institutional remarketing channels, refurbished EV value chains, as well as expanding export trade to under-motorized neighbors across the ASEAN region.
   

Based on fuel, the market is segmented into gasoline, diesel, electric, hybrid, and others. The Southeast Asia used car market is still dominated by gasoline powered vehicles despite the increasing trend towards electrification. Gasoline models have dominated used cars sold in major markets such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Thailand in 2024 because they are readily available, familiar and have a comparatively lower upfront fee in comparison to Electric Vehicles (EVs).
 

• Although the long-term future of gasoline vehicles remains uncertain due to growing emission standards and the electrification trend, they will continue to represent a huge portion of the used auto industry at least in the near future. The trend shows that new technologies are slowly gaining acceptance and issues such as driving range, ease of charging, and battery life continue to affect the uses car market.
   
• The Southeast Asia used car market has decreased in popularity in diesel vehicles due to their capability to economize fuel and low emissions. Nevertheless, they continue to command a substantial proportion, especially in nations such as Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand, where the diesel variations represented approximately 22% of the secondhand car purchases in 2022.
   
• Though the future of diesel cars is gradually decreasing due to the stricter emission laws, and the rise in popularity of the electric and hybrid vehicles, they still have an audience in the secondary car market. The trend shows anxiety about the range, recharging infrastructure and the initial price burden transacted with the newer technologies, and the presence of accessible & efficient diesel offerings in the used car market.
   

Based on sales channel, the market is segmented into peer-to-peer, franchised dealers, and independent dealers. Franchised dealers were the most structured and confidence-driven mode of sales in the Southeast Asia used car market, which was normally run by OEMs or approved sellers like Toyota, Honda, Mitsubishi, and Nissan. This segment experiences about 48% of all used vehicles sales in the region but is gaining momentum as consumers continue to demand certified used cars with warranty coverage, confirmed service history and future resale value.
 

• The independent dealers are the most flexible and dynamic channel in the used cars environment in Southeast Asia. Such enterprises include small, local operations to medium-size regional ones to those, which can source refurbished imports and fleet offloads. Selling through independent dealers includes competitive pricing, wide range of stock available, and open trade-in offers usually become the starting point of access of used car buyers in Tier-II and Tier-III cities. But within the relationship of trust and transparency, there are a huge number of variants, and consumer experience greatly depends on dealer reputation and local market norms.
   
• The fast growth of online resale start-ups has been Carsome, Carro, and iCar Asia that are formalizing this category by inviting independent dealers to join platform systems, promising a structured vehicle inspection, AI-assisted grades, and financing. Platform integration has allowed dealers to access widened inventory sources, analytics programmed pricing products and centrally located refurbishment services. The independent dealers will by 2028 become digitally augmented resale nodes on a wider omnichannel network that links affordability and approved quality to the growing of the Southeast Asian automotive market into a mid-income market.
   

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Malaysia dominated the Southeast Asia used cars market with around 33% share and generated USD 6.1 billion in revenue in 2024.
 

• Malaysia adds value to the Southeast Asua region with a high transaction level, robust online platform, and advanced inspection and refurbishment systems. The demand is driven by high prices of new vehicle ownerships, increased urbanization in Tier-2 cities, and increasing popularity of certified pre-owned (CPO) vehicles. Carsome, based in Malaysia, has been critical in formalizing the used-car value chain, using AI-based inspection facilities and a blooming network of affiliated dealers
   
• The market is also balanced in terms of peer-to-peer (P2P) and independent dealer activity but franchised dealers especially those of Toyota, and Honda are also ramping up CPO inventories.
   
• Malaysia is also a refurbishment center of regional redistribution refurbishing and reselling vehicles domestically and to lower-income countries in the ASEAN region. Policy encouragement of EV adoption, such as the exemption of import tax and the introduction of the national Low Carbon Mobility Blueprint, will likely affect the distribution of used car inventory beginning in 2026. By 2030, there are grounds to expect the used car market in Malaysia to become a tech-affected, certification-based environment with the proportion of used EVs growing and transactions increasingly financed digitally.
   

The used cars market in Indonesia is expected to experience significant and promising growth from 2025 to 2034.
 

• Indonesia has the largest and the fastest developing used car market in Southeast Asia with a huge population, an expanding middle class, and a limited new car buying power. This market is a largely price-sensitive market where demand has been focused mainly on fuel efficient MPVs, compact SUVs and sedans below 10,000 USD.
   
• OLX Autos and Carro are the leading digital facilitators, simplifying listing, inspection and financing by independent dealers and individual sellers. The used-car business is still highly unconsolidated, and P2P deals continue to represent more than half the volume, especially in rural areas.
   
• Used car import barriers have shrunk supply based on the cross-border inflow, so the main sources of supply are fleet turnover and local production (e.g., Astra Honda, Toyota Indonesia). The localization of the battery industry and EV tax incentives in the form of an EV policy in Indonesia could create a supply of early EVs in the resale market at the end of the 2020s.
   
• Indonesia is expected to become a platform-specific used car sale leader by 2030 with more penetration in semi-urban locales and slow expansion toward certified stock and EV-ready auxiliary resale solutions.
   

The used cars market in Thailand is expected to experience significant and promising growth from 2025 to 2034.
 

• Thailand is in a strategic place in the regional used cars market being both a large domestic consumer and the main exporter of reconditioned cars to Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam. Domestic manufacturing supports the market well, several established OEMs (such as Toyota, Isuzu or Mitsubishi) are present, and the leasing business is well developed (gradual de-fleeting).
   
• Carsome and One2Car (by iCar Asia) have brought a swift digitalization by teaming up with sellers to offer certification, inspection, and built-in financing. OEMs have seen franchised dealers emerge in OEM supported CPO programs, but still, independent dealers dominate in volume deals mainly in the outer provincial areas and urban localities.
   
• Thailand has quite liberal export policies that allow export of used vehicle whereas in imports, they institute quality and emission rules to control imports. The EV policies and incentives offered by the government to support the infrastructure are encouraging the slow pace of adoption, and the resale value of the EVs is expected to increase after 2027 when OEMs such as MG and BYD expand their local deliveries.
   
• Thailand will become a dual-market hub with the capacity to support its resale activities within domestics and enabling a regional regional center of exports of certified used vehicles and re-manufactured EVs by 2030.
   

Southeast Asia Used Cars Market Share

• The top 7 companies in the Southeast Asia used cars industry are Carsome, Autodeal, Carlist.my, Mobil123, Mudah.my, and Carmudi, contributing around 5% of the market in 2024.
   
• Carro positioned as one of the foremost digital automotive marketplaces in Southeast Asia, operating in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand, is known to have taken the lead on full-stack digital transactions within the used car market. The company has also established a robust strategic framework with AI-driven technology of vehicle inspection, own pricing algorithms, and smooth coordination of financing, insurance, and after-sales support. The advantages of Carro car are their end-to-end ecosystem that includes the choice of subscription-based ownership models, EV-ready resale platforms, and collaborations with OEMs to power certified resale programs as Toyota Asia Pacific.
   
• Carsome has become the leading player in the used car market in Malaysia and a fast-moving one in Indonesia and Thailand and is regarded as the first integrated car fulfillment platform in Southeast Asia. This strategy is based on vertical integration vehicle ownership transactions start with the vehicle inspection and refurbishment, and continue with certification, financing, and resale corners of the storefront located in its Carsome certified labs where thousands of vehicles have been handled each month.
   
• The competitive advantage of the company is that it has an established logistic network, institutional-level reconditioning centers, and the use of artificial intelligence technology to power the inspection and grade vehicles, which can support scalable and high-trust transactions.
   
• Mudah.my is the largest online classifieds site in Malaysia and a major operator in peer to peer and informal dealer driven secondhand vehicle business. Although it is not a vertically integrated market operator such as Carsome or Carro, Mudah.my sustains a substantial level of consumer traffic and listing brink, and this makes it a desirable channel used by individual sellers and small-time used car stores.
   
• The approach taken by the platform has been strategic with the position of keeping the listings transparent and available and only providing value-added services with prices benchmarks, and dealer verification tags but not complete transaction facilitation. The firm has a competitive advantage on a large geographic penetration in Malaysia and its potential to appeal to price sensitive consumers by way of a low-friction, user-friendly listing business. Nevertheless, it is not competitive when it comes to partnering in high value or tech-enabled resale deals, since it has no embedded certification, logistics or financing capacities.
   

Southeast Asia Used Cars Market Companies

Major players operating in the Southeast Asia used cars industry are:
 

• AuctionNow
• AutoBest
• Autodeal
• Broom
• Carlist.my
• Carmudi
• Carro
• Carsome
• Chobrod
• Mobil123
• Mudah.my
• MyTukar
• OLX Autos
• Red Motors
• SGCarMart
• VinFast Auto
   
• The full-stack digital marketplace segment is comprised of Carsome, Carro, and OLX Autos, which exposes them to end-to-end solutions from car procurement, to AI-based inspections, reconditioning, financing, and sales. The difference in these platforms is that they have a full transaction cycle, where they also included services such as instant loans, subscriptions ownership, buyback guarantee. With its operational power in Malaysia and expanding beyond in Indonesia and Thailand, Carsome has invested in their own refurbishment labs and authorised centres to enhance quality transactions.
   
• Carro dominates in Singapore and Indonesia and uses OEM partners (e.g., Toyota) and data-driven price engines that drive certified used vehicle programs. OLX Autos, originally a classified-based marketplace, has now become transactional-having established a good relationship with dealers in Indonesia. The new space of used EV resale is an opportunity to grow, and this cluster is well-placed to do so through vehicle grading, battery diagnostics, and trust across the platform.
   
• Mudah.my, Carlist.my and One2Car are mainly peer-to-peer and dealer classified websites, also acting as open market communication between individuals sellers and smaller individual and independent dealerships. These businesses are a framework of zero car search and price disclosure without including certification or logistics.
   
• In Malaysia, Mudah.my has a monopoly with cost-effective buyers and informal dealers, but this situation with Carlist.my and One2Car within iCar Asia is very strong in Thailand and Malaysia. These platforms are advantageous in semi-urban and rural areas that include low overhead, scalability, and market penetration, even though they lack vertical control. Their future decisions will probably revolve around strategic collaborations with third-party inspection companies or financial fintechs or white label certification programs to overcome the changing customer requirements of vehicle quality and digital experience.
   

Southeast Asia Used Cars Industry News

• In July 2024, Kudun and Partners has leveraged to successfully compile Tri Petch Isuzu Sales Co., Ltd. in its meaningful expansion of the business used car. This was done by a strategic acquisition and investment where they bought shares of shareholders of one of the largest distributors of high-quality used cars in Thailand and have subscribed new shares. The aggregate investment of the total amount of around USD 4.9 million has led the investment arm of Tri Petch Isuzu Sales Co., Ltd., namely TPG X Co., Ltd. to owning around 85% shares in the target company as well as its two subsidiaries.
   
• Zeekr entrusts Carro with the status of the most recent approved dealer in Malaysia in June of 2025, signifying a significant desire to boost customer accessibility in large-end EV industries. Partnership strategies are intended on opening 4 Zeekr showrooms and 3 Carro Care workshops to promote sales and repair activities.
   
• CARSOME and JACCS Seal Partnership to Speed Up Accessible Auto Financing in Malaysia in April 2025. In accordance with the agreement, CARSOME sold a 49% stake in CARSOME Capital to JACCS, and CARSOME will maintain the majority ownership of humorously 51%. CARSOME is partnering with JACCS to offer financing products tailored to the Malaysian used car market (specific regions), where its financing products offer a faster loan turnaround time, inventory financing to dealers in their warehouses, and innovative credit models that leverage the combination of JACCS consumer finance experience and CARSOME automotive data science.
   
• As of July 2022, MPMX and CARRO began collaborating on a Indonesian online and offline automotive ecosystem, officially announced as a strategic partnership which will provide a fully integrated online and offline business eco-system in Indonesia. The investment is the beginning of a marriage between MPMX, the largest and fastest-growing automotive marketplace in Southeast Asia and Indonesia leading automotive, transportation, mobility group, to deliver an end to end solution to Indonesian consumers i.e. online marketplace, financing, rental, repair and aftersales.
   

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Market, By Vehicle

• Hatchback
• Sedan
• SUV

Market, By Sales Channel

• Peer-to-peer
• Franchised dealers
• Independent dealers

Market, By Fuel

• Gasoline
• Diesel
• Electric
  • BEV
  • HEV
  • PHEV
  • FCEV

Market, By End Use

• Personal
• Commercial

Market, By Price Range

• Under USD 7,000
• USD 7000-USD 10,000
• USD 10,000-15,000
• Above USD 15,000

Market, By Vehicle Age

• 0-3 years
• 3-7 years
• Above 7 years

The above information is provided for the following regions and countries:

• Brunei
• Cambodia
• East Timor
• Indonesia
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Vietnam