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These Vehicles Retained the Most Value

Six pickup trucks made the top-10 list of vehicles that retain the highest percentage of their value after a five-year ownership period, along with two Jeeps, a Subaru, and the Toyota 4Runner. At the other end of the spectrum, the Nissan Leaf saw the highest depreciation over the same period.

October 15, 2018
These Vehicles Retained the Most Value

The Jeep Wrangler retains the most value after five years of ownership, according to a new analysis.

Photo courtesy of FCA.

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Six pickup trucks made the top-10 list of vehicles that retain the highest percentage of their value after a five-year ownership period, along with two Jeeps, a Subaru, and the Toyota 4Runner. At the other end of the spectrum, the Nissan Leaf saw the highest depreciation over the same period, according to a new analysis from iSeeCars.com.

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The four-door Jeep Wrangler Unlimited and two-door Jeep Wrangler tied for the lowest depreciation at 27.3% among the 4.3 million new and used vehicles that were included in the analysis. The average vehicle depreciated 50.2%.

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Other lower-depreciating vehicles in the top five included the Toyota Tacoma (29.5%), Toyota Tundra (37.1%), and Nissan Frontier (37.8%). The list was rounded out by the Toyota 4Runner (38.1%), Chevrolet Silverado 1500 (39.7%), GMC Sierra 1500 (39.9%), Subaru Impreza (42.3%), and Ram 1500 (42.7%). Ford's F-150 didn't make the top 10. It depreciated 44.1%.

The Nissan Leaf lost the highest percentage of its value (71.7%) on a list that included three electrified models and luxury cars. Other higher-depreciation vehicles include the Chevrolet Volt (71.2%), BMW 7 Series (71.1%), Mercedes-Benz S-Class (69.9%), Ford Fusion Energi (69.4%), BMW 6 Series (68.3%), BMW 5 Series (67.3%), Mercedes-Benz E-Class (67.2%), Jaguar XJL (66.4%), and Chevrolet Impala (66.2%).

Other electrified vehicles showed typically higher depreciation with a 59% average for the category. Toyota's Prius depreciated 54.1% The Prius c was the top vehicle with 51.5% depreciation.

iSeeCars.com has posted the full vehicle depreciation anaylsis.

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