Top 10 Car Brands with the Best Resale Value
The car brands that lose the least value, ranked by CarEdge's five-year resale value — the share of a new vehicle's original price it still commands on the US used market after five years. CarEdge publishes mainstream and luxury brands as two separate tables; this ranking merges them on the same metric and keeps each brand's position in its original table for reference.
Interesting Facts & Summary
The gap between the best and worst brands is close to threefold. Toyota still holds 64.9% of its original price after five years; in the same dataset Maserati keeps just 24.7%, Dodge 38.2% and Tesla 39.2%. On a $50,000 car, picking the wrong badge costs more over five years than a new entry-level model.
Six of the top ten are Japanese: Toyota, Lexus, Honda, Mazda, Subaru and Acura. That is not a coincidence — in Kelley Blue Book's 2026 awards Toyota took Best Resale Value Brand for the ninth time in ten years, and Lexus took Best Luxury Brand, an independent valuation system reaching the same conclusion.
What really resists depreciation is trucks, not sedans. CarEdge's model table is led by the GMC Sierra 3500HD at 80.3%, with the Chevrolet Silverado 3500HD and Toyota Tacoma tied at 78.4%; KBB's 2026 overall winner is also the Tacoma, at 63.0%. For context, KBB puts the industry average at just 44.7% of sticker price after 60 months.
The most counterintuitive line on the list: Mercedes-Benz makes the top ten at 53.8%, while Jeep — a brand built on off-road resale mythology — manages only 49.4%, dragged down by everything that is not a Wrangler.
| Rank | Brand | Parent group | CarEdge segment | 5-year resale value (%) | Rank in original table | Note | Data checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Toyota | Toyota Motor Corporation | Mainstream | 64.9 | 1 | The highest retention of all 35 brands covered, equal to 35.1% depreciation; the Tacoma, 4Runner and GR86 sit near the top of the model table | 2026-08-04 | |
Lexus | Toyota Motor Corporation | Luxury | 61.6 | 1 | The strongest luxury brand by 7.8 points over runner-up Mercedes-Benz, and Kelley Blue Book's 2026 Best Resale Value Luxury Brand | 2026-08-04 | |
Subaru | Subaru Corporation | Mainstream | 61.2 | 2 | Standard symmetrical all-wheel drive keeps used demand concentrated in the US snow belt; the BRZ is the only small sports car in the model top ten | 2026-08-04 | |
| 4 | Honda | Honda Motor Co. | Mainstream | 60.5 | 3 | Toyota's long-standing counterpart in value retention; the Civic and Accord are among the highest-turnover used models in the US | 2026-08-04 |
| 5 | Mazda | Mazda Motor Corporation | Mainstream | 59.7 | 4 | Far smaller in volume than the four brands above it, yet holds value through a narrow lineup and higher new-car positioning | 2026-08-04 |
| 6 | MINI | BMW Group | Mainstream | 59.5 | 5 | CarEdge classes MINI as mainstream rather than luxury; tied exactly with RAM, so the original table order is kept here | 2026-08-04 |
| 7 | RAM | Stellantis | Mainstream | 59.5 | 6 | Carried almost entirely by heavy-duty pickups — the RAM 3500 makes the model top ten at 74.8% — while Stellantis stablemate Dodge sits last at 38.2% | 2026-08-04 |
| 8 | GMC | General Motors | Mainstream | 56.5 | 7 | The Sierra 3500HD tops CarEdge's entire model table at 80.3%, while GM stablemate Chevrolet manages only 51.6% | 2026-08-04 |
| 9 | Mercedes-Benz | Mercedes-Benz Group AG | Luxury | 53.8 | 2 | The most counterintuitive entry; the G-Class makes KBB's 2026 overall top five at 55.0%, the only non-Toyota in that group | 2026-08-04 |
| 10 | Acura | Honda Motor Co. | Luxury | 53.2 | 3 | Holds tenth place by 1.2 points, with FIAT and Hyundai both right behind at 52.0% | 2026-08-04 |
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