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ModelsThe Toyota Corolla’s price curve has a ten-year hole in it
The Toyota Corolla’s price ladder steps down tidily one model year at a time, until it breaks. A 2019 Corolla sold for 19,990 €, and the next model year down is 2008 at 4,800 €. The ten model years in between barely exist on the Finnish used market, and the model’s own median price of 6,900 € lands in the middle of that hole. It is a price at which a Corolla is almost never sold. 2,246 Corollas changed hands in Finland between 16 July and 14 September 2026, and they fall into two groups with little in common.
ModelsThe generation sets a Mercedes-Benz C's price, not the badge
Make and model usually tell you roughly what price bracket a car sits in. The Mercedes-Benz C does not follow the rule. Under that one name, 2,001 cars changed hands between 13 July and 7 September 2026, and half of the prices actually paid fell between 3,950 € and 16,990 €. At the bottom end that buys a car built almost twenty years ago, at the top end one under ten years old. The median of 9,000 € sits between the two halves and describes neither.
Monthly reviewJuly's median price describes none of the best-selling models
Used car prices tend to be discussed as a single figure, and for July that figure is 11,480 €. Yet not one of the ten best-selling models actually changes hands at that price: eight of them sit below it and two above. Across July's 49,358 sales the top of the list is filled by old, high-mileage cars such as the Volkswagen Golf and the Skoda Octavia, while the more expensive half of the market is made up of newer SUVs and electric cars. The median falls between these two groups and describes neither.
ModelsSkoda Octavia prices have a step at the 2013 model year
The same model name covers both a four-year-old estate and a car over twenty years old. A Skoda Octavia changed hands 1,413 times between 18 July and 17 August 2026, and the median completed sale price is 8,800 €. Half of the sales fell between 3,190 € and 16,990 €, so the median does not describe any real car. The price does not slide down smoothly from one model year to the next; it drops in steps. The steepest step lands on 2013.
ModelsThe median price of a used Volkswagen Golf is €4,990
1,565 Volkswagen Golfs changed hands in Finland between 5 July and 4 August 2026. The median sale price was 4,990 €, but a quarter of the deals were done below 1,890 € and a quarter above 12,690 €. Model year explains the gap: the newest Golfs sold cost more than twenty thousand euros, those from a decade ago under two thousand.
Monthly reviewThe best-selling used cars in Finland in July 2026
53,493 used cars changed hands in July. The best-selling was the Volkswagen Golf, but the typical Golf sold was neither new nor expensive: a 2011 model with 209,000 kilometres on the clock and a price tag of 5,490 euros.