How Long Does a Used Ford Mustang Take to Sell?

Real days-on-lot from 1,577 retail sales at independent dealerships, broken out by model year.

Sales window: Jan 2024 – Sep 2026 Sample: 1,577 sales Updated monthly
Short answer

Half of all used Ford Mustangs sell within 39 days, against an all-vehicle median of 38 days — that is 1 days slower than the typical vehicle on an independent lot. A quarter move in under 17 days and a quarter take more than 85 — that spread is the part worth planning around.

39
days on lot
median
17–85
middle half
sells in
1,577
sales in
the sample
69,380
average
miles

By model year

Age and turn time are not the straight line most dealers assume. The 2014 moves fastest at 29 days, while the 2022 sits for 57.

Model year Median days Sales Avg miles
2024 Ford Mustang 56 43 13,721
2022 Ford Mustang 57 59 33,962
2021 Ford Mustang 38 70 40,790
2020 Ford Mustang 48 102 54,549
2019 Ford Mustang 41 125 54,024
2018 Ford Mustang 31 123 67,178
2017 Ford Mustang 34 152 70,242
2016 Ford Mustang 37.5 152 74,781
2015 Ford Mustang 36.5 140 86,044
2014 Ford Mustang 29 116 78,222
2013 Ford Mustang 38 73 81,719
2012 Ford Mustang 30 69 88,523
2011 Ford Mustang 31 55 93,302
2007 Ford Mustang 48 42 85,440

Model years with at least 40 recorded sales. Days on lot is the calendar gap between inventory entry and sale date.

Methodology

Days on lot is the number of calendar days between a vehicle being added to a dealership's inventory and its recorded sale date. That clock starts at intake, so on units that need work it includes reconditioning time. We exclude vehicles with no entry date, sales recorded before the entry date, and anything over 730 days — those are data-entry artifacts, not slow-moving inventory.

We report the median, not the average. Turn time has a long right tail: a handful of units that sit for a year or more drag the mean well above what a normal car does. Across every vehicle we track, the mean is 66.7 days while the median is 38. The median answers the question a dealer is actually asking, and the quartiles show the spread around it.

These figures come from aggregated, de-identified activity across independent dealerships that use AutoRaptor. We report only totals across many dealerships, never an individual dealership's results. No customer records, buyer information or dealership names are included.

We publish a model only at 150 or more sales, and a model year only at 40 or more. We do not publish gross profit figures, because the price fields in our data are incomplete and any margin we reported would be wrong.

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