Cars that hold the best value
PORTLAND, Ore TheStreet - Your car is a major investment and should get at least as much consideration as you give other actions all.
He bit his logic to make a long term investment in a product that depreciates the value when it leaves the ground as the vehicle's value falls, but it doesn t just go crashing to the ground, unless you decide to drive the until his stack of coins or buy a less reliable model to save money in the short term, your vehicle still have significant resale value of tens of thousands of miles on the road people car prices and the Kelley Blue Book site evaluation notes that the depreciation cost car owner more than gas, maintenance and insurance during the first five years of the new car ownership.
Kelley Blue Book publishes its residual value guide since 1981 and knows a thing or two about the resale value as the value of used car buyers blue book talking about when the price of a vehicle Yep, same company that's been distributed their best resale value prices since 2003.
The model year 2014 Toyota promoted as much as it did last year and much to the chagrin of the Detroit Three Toyota loyalists and its Lexus division were named Best Brand and Best luxury brand, respectively, for their ability to maintain their cars in the value of the first five years of ownership Despite the automaker's series of recalls, Toyota took five of the 22 categories of vehicles KBB while Lexus has won two of three luxury categories Audi A5 won luxury cars and the best alternative energy hybrid car for its Lexus ES 300h.
Although his Nissan Subaru and Honda rivals took the small and medium categories of cars, Honda has taken the best plug-in vehicle and Toyota won midsize and honors pickup full size, the Detroit automakers weren t completely excluded Chevrolet Corvette was voted best high-performance car, while the Chevrolet Camaro beat the Porsche Cayman for the best sports car.
There aren ta whole lot of vehicles out there that allow car buyers the majority of their investment for less than five years later According to Kelley Blue Book, the following vehicles are better chances of a buyer to get half their money or more when it is time to sell.
10 Dodge Challenger MSRP 26495 The resale value retained after five years 50 5.
Even in the Fiat ownership, some elements of the Dodge mouth breathing, knuckle-Dragging, auto sales-He-Man Woman-Haters Club approach managed to survive constructed by car - for car-guy-guy Challenger his muscle car detailing restarted persists attract meatheads who enjoy racing stripes on rims and, oh, just about any other element of the vehicle.
Ordinarily, only wouldn t make one of these vehicles worth a second look five years from now - even the most superficial gearheads But Fiat has helped accelerate the Challenger somewhat by coupling a 305 horsepower V6 engine or 375-horsepower Hemi V8 5 7 liters with loads of interior space, touchscreen navigation real-time updates of traffic, Bluetooth connectivity, satellite radio Sirius XM, entry free entry many key and Harman Kardon audio updates.
Long after Harley will power and other performance ponies begin closing in on 35 to 40 miles per gallon, these updates will make a 2014 Challenger value a look at half price.
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