Here in Oz, things are (thankfully) very different... cars are selling quickly, pretty much at pre-Covid levels... So I don't have 'feet on the ground' in the UK...
Your car is lovely, hopefully you sell it.
Out of three cars I own two got hail damaged in January and I have bought two replacements. Not sure were in Oz you are but virtually everyone where I work bought new/second hand cars as every car in the car park was written off. I am in Canberra, one car I got from down the coast at Batemans Bay 160km's away, the other being a Frontline Spec MGB that is currently being stripped I ordered from Sydney 300km away. I wanted something special after that storm.
The Skoda Rapid manual (my wife loves it so glad I found another one, stupid Skoda Australia thinks we prefer autos so removed the manual from the line up a few years ago) was put up for sale at 10pm, I woke up grumpy about the hail storm at 2pm and my written off Silvia, found it and sent the seller a message, paid a deposit over the phone at 8am and went down the next day to test drive it and pay for it in full. When I saw it the dealer said he was surprised how much interest he had with phones calls after me, I guess I was lucky I got in while everyone was still in shock.
To me I noticed a very high demand for cars locally but I think it was caused by the most damaging hail storm I have ever seen, add the number of cars written off in Sydney and Melbourne from other hail storms about the same time plus those caught in the bushfires earlier in the year and car dealers have had a ball with the demand.
The demand has been kept up during the year by the staggering of cars running out of registration. In my case I kept my Silvia until May when it ran out and used it to go shopping, drive to work etc. when I knew it was not going to rain (no roof left), a mate just bought a new car as his car runs out next month. So as long as the car is drive-able even if not able to pass the yearly inspection many people have been keeping them hoping for the demand to drop and hopefully make it a buyers market again.
