Depreciation is a fact of life when it comes to buying a new car, but it definitely hits some vehicles way harder than others. A few weeks ago, we took a look at cars hit hardest by deprecation over the past five years. Now, we’re looking at the flip side of the coin.
The nice people over at iSeeCars analyzed over 1.1 million vehicles sold between November of 2022 and October of 2023. They figured out which ones have depreciated the least over that half-decade time period. Overall, the average car depreciated 38.8 percent in that window, but these bad boys faired much better. Every single vehicle on this list bested that number by at least 12 percentage points. Not too shabby.
Most of the vehicles are this list are from Asian automakers, but we’ve also got a smattering of high-end German stuff and even some American representation. We love to see it, don’t we folks!
If you were wondering about the other end of the spectrum, but didn’t feel like clicking the link to that slideshow, the three cars with the most deprecation are the Maserati Ghibli (61.3 Percent Depreciation), BMW 7 Series (61.8 Percent Depreciation) and the Maserati Quattroporte (64.5 Percent Depreciation).
Before we dig in, a few things. “XX.X Percent Deprecation” in the slide titles is the percentage of the car’s original MSRP it has lost in the past five years, and the dollar value below each photo is how much it has lost in real money. Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, happy viewing!