Depreciation hits just about every single car the second they roll off the dealer lot, but some get slammed a lot worse than others. If they’re big luxury sedans or SUVs, then you’re looking at a five-year depreciation rate of over 50 percent, meaning a vehicle has lost over half of its value in just five years.
Anyway, I’ve had depreciation on the brain recently, and luckily for me, the kind folks over at iSeeCars decided to take a look at over 1.1 million vehicles sold between November of 2022 and October of 2023 to find out which cars depreciate the most in the past five years. Overall, the average car has depreciated 38.8 percent over the past five years.
It won’t come as too much of a surprise, but BMW, Maserati and Audi are in the lead in terms of representation here. Both companies have three cars apiece on this list. But don’t worry, we’ve also got plenty of MBs and Cadillacs to go around.
If you’re looking for stuff on the other end of the spectrum, then cars like the Porsche 911, Jeep Wrangler and Honda Civic will fulfill you as anti-depreciation leaders, but who cares about those? We’re here to see people lose their shirts on aging luxury cars, after all.
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!
