{"id":67619,"date":"2013-11-18T10:10:36","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T15:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=67619"},"modified":"2013-11-18T10:10:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T15:10:36","slug":"new-studies-list-honda-toyota-and-audi-as-best-brands-for-holding-resale-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2013\/11\/new-studies-list-honda-toyota-and-audi-as-best-brands-for-holding-resale-value\/","title":{"rendered":"New Studies List Honda, Toyota and Audi as Best Brands for Holding Resale Value"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Toyota's FJ Cruiser led KBB's list.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While a pair of new studies don\u2019t always agree on the fine points, they do find that Honda and Toyota are generally the best brands for holding their resale values after several years in service.<\/p>\n

Import brands, on the whole, dominated the two studies by ALG \u2013 formerly known as the Automotive Lease Guide \u2013 and KelleyBlueBook.com.<\/p>\n

Resale values are a significant factor that many motorists have learned to take into consideration when shopping for a new vehicle because, in some cases, that can make a more expensive price tag up front prove to be a bargain, longer-term, when it comes time to trade in.<\/p>\n

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Always Valuable!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Toyota, Audi and Honda captured the most segment honors due to the consistent high value of all their products,” said Larry Dominique, President of ALG. “Honda was named top Mainstream Brand due to their prudent use of (sales) incentives \u2013 $1,000 lower than the mainstream average \u2013 and low rental fleet penetration.”<\/p>\n

Industry analysts warn that dumping cars into fleets \u2013 especially daily rental fleets \u2013 can lower the long-term value of a brand\u2019s products. Honda, in particular, has traditionally aimed to keep fleet \u201cpenetration\u201d down in the low single-digits.<\/p>\n

But there are other factors that can influence how much a car is worth come trade-in time, including the reliability of a vehicle line, as well as more immediate factors that can raise of lower the trade-in on individual vehicles.<\/p>\n

That makes it difficult to predict precisely what a vehicle will be worth after several years, and why the two studies disagreed, at least somewhat. KelleyBlueBook, or KBB, declared that Toyota was the brand with the highest resale value overall, while the Japanese maker\u2019s Lexus division was tops among\u00a0 luxury brands.<\/p>\n

According to KBB, the typical Toyota is expected to yield 46.1% of its original value at trade-in time after five years on the road.\u00a0 That is a 2.1 percentage-point increase from the 2013 resale study.<\/p>\n

Among the other imports to do well on the two studies were Porsche \u2013 its Panamera named top vehicle in ALG\u2019s Premium Executive segment, and Hyundai, which scored in several segments with its Accent subcompact and midsize Santa Fe Sport crossover.<\/p>\n

But domestics weren\u2019t entirely absent.\u00a0 In fact, Chevrolet had two models listed by ALG: the Chevrolet Corvette and Chevy Camaro. KBB added the Chevrolet Silverado 1500 pickup and the Dodge Challenger.<\/p>\n

According to KBB, all 10 of its segment winners will be worth at least 50% after five years on the road while the top model, the Toyota FJ Cruiser, will retain a whopping 70% of its original value. Ironically, that Japanese crossover will go out of production at the end of the current 2014 model-year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While a pair of new studies don\u2019t always agree on the fine points, they do find that Honda and Toyota are generally the best brands for holding their resale values after several years in service. Find out more in this report from TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[151],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67619"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=67619"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=67619"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=67619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}