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2 German, 2 US Luxury Car Makers Shut Out of Best Resale Value Lists
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When you pay north of around $40,000 for a luxury vehicle, one of the extras you might expect is a higher resale value when you either trade or sell the vehicle. Depending on what brand of luxury vehicle you buy, you could be disappointed.
The top luxury brands do not include either of the best-known German nameplates — Mercedes-Benz and BMW — or either of their two best-known U.S. competitors — Lincoln from Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) and Cadillac from General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM).
Researchers at Kelley Blue Book (KBB) have issued their rankings of 2017 model year vehicles with the best resale value in 22 vehicle categories and also named the top 10 2017 cars with the best resale value. The rankings are based on a projected retained value through an initial five-year ownership period.
Over the past five years, from model year 2013 through this morning’s announcement of model year 2017, Toyota Motor Corp.’s (NYSE: TM) Lexus brand claimed the title of the luxury brand with the best resale value for four consecutive years, before Volkswagen’s Porsche brand ended the streak in this year’s ranking.
The 2017 rankings for vehicles in the six luxury categories included four Lexus models and two Porsche models. The following chart shows the resale rankings in each of the luxury categories for the past five model years. No U.S. nameplate is among the winners, and only one German nameplate other than Porsche appears among the 30 winners. That’s not exactly a thrilling showing for high-end automakers.
We noted earlier this morning all the winners in the Kelley Blue best resale value categories.
| Year/Category | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
| Entry-level luxury car | Lexus IS | Lexus ES 350 | Lexus RC 350 | Lexus RC | Lexus RC |
| Luxury car | Lexus GS 350 | Audi A5 | Lexus GS 350 | Lexus GS | Lexus GS |
| High-end luxury car | Porsche Panamera | Lexus LS 460 | Lexus LS 460 | Porsche Panamera | Porsche Panamera |
| Luxury compact SUV | Infiniti EX | Infiniti QX50 | M-B GLK class | Porsche Macan | Porsche Macan |
| Luxury midsize SUV | Porsche Cayenne | Lexus GX 460 | Lexus GX 460 | Lexus GS 460 | Lexus RX |
| Luxury full-size SUV | Lexus LX | Lexus LX 570 | Lexus LX 570 | Lexus LX 570 | Lexus LX 570 |
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