Fira de Barcelona
          
        
        
          | 2014 Report
        
        
          
            Ocasión
          
        
        
          Second Hand Guaranteed Vehicles Trade Fair
        
        
          
            28/November – 08/December
          
        
        
          Montjuïc. 34th edition
        
        
          This fair beat its own record, as sales at Ocasión
        
        
          increased by 13% compared to 2013. In ten
        
        
          days, 2,027 nearly-new vehicles were sold, that
        
        
          is to say, 83% of the cars on display, mainly
        
        
          Km0, management, business fleets and renting.
        
        
          Most vehicles were less than 3 years old. The
        
        
          Dekra certification company inspected all cars
        
        
          on show before they were accepted, ensuring
        
        
          their perfect condition and working order.
        
        
          The nearly one hundred participating
        
        
          exhibitors offered reduced prices and special
        
        
          conditions that, added to the quality of the
        
        
          vehicles, the features and the guarantees,
        
        
          encouraged one in fourteen visitors to buy. The
        
        
          total value of sales generated by the trade fair is
        
        
          estimated at nearly 40 million euros.
        
        
          Depending on the model or range, the
        
        
          average saving compared to the same brand-
        
        
          new vehicle was 30%. Sales were concentrated
        
        
          mainly on mid-range utility cars, priced between
        
        
          10,000 and 15,000 euros, and models with
        
        
          prices averaging over 25,000 euros. Some units
        
        
          from the premium segment were also sold, as
        
        
          well as a few luxury sports cars with prices
        
        
          above 70,000 euros.
        
        
          Ocasión also generated many more
        
        
          operations that were later completed at the
        
        
          exhibitors’ showrooms on the following days.
        
        
          Several exhibiting companies, all of them
        
        
          members of the Catalan Federation of Motor
        
        
          Vehicle Dealers (FECAVEM), sold more than
        
        
          a hundred more vehicles after the event, but
        
        
          whose purchase had been agreed at the show.
        
        
          The economic crisis and difficulty in obtain
        
        
          credit all helped to generate a sharp increase in
        
        
          second-hand vehicle sales.
        
        
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            Area
          
        
        
          17,600 m
        
        
          2
        
        
          (net)
        
        
          
            Exhibitors
          
        
        
          100
        
        
          
            Type
          
        
        
          Public
        
        
          
            Activities
          
        
        
          Professional seminars,
        
        
          children’s drawing
        
        
          competition, road
        
        
          safety driving circuit
        
        
          2,027
        
        
          vehicles sold