Half of all used Mazda Mazda3s sell within 36 days, against an all-vehicle median of 38 days — that is 2 days faster than the typical vehicle on an independent lot. A quarter move in under 15 days and a quarter take more than 73 — that spread is the part worth planning around.
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Age and turn time are not the straight line most dealers assume. The 2012 moves fastest at 29 days, while the 2021 sits for 45.
| Model year | Median days | Sales | Avg miles |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 Mazda Mazda3 | 45 | 41 | 73,490 |
| 2018 Mazda Mazda3 | 34 | 80 | 89,637 |
| 2017 Mazda Mazda3 | 34 | 49 | 101,017 |
| 2016 Mazda Mazda3 | 32 | 61 | 109,403 |
| 2015 Mazda Mazda3 | 33 | 78 | 107,918 |
| 2014 Mazda Mazda3 | 31 | 77 | 122,055 |
| 2012 Mazda Mazda3 | 29 | 57 | 127,755 |
| 2011 Mazda Mazda3 | 40 | 53 | 129,830 |
| 2010 Mazda Mazda3 | 40 | 43 | 125,156 |
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 We do not publish gross profit figures, because the price fields in our data are incomplete and any margin we reported would be wrong.