Luxury vehicles with the best, and worst, resale

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kevm14
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Luxury vehicles with the best, and worst, resale

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21 future used car values:
https://www.motortrend.com/news/21-luxu ... B83EC3A873

I always like to see if I can correlate resale to perceived reliability. And sometimes I cannot, and that appears to be the case with these lists. Look at the Continental. Somehow it made Consumer Reports top 10 reliable vehicles list yet it is the single worse depreciating vehicle in the list of depreciating luxury cars. Right there I'd question the linkage.

Also, vehicles from basically every major producing country are on this list in some form. Even Japan.

But maybe the list of best resale luxury vehicles better proves my point.
https://www.motortrend.com/news/18-luxu ... B83EC3A873

Most of these do not appear on high reliability lists. Instead, the resale simply reflects the consumer demand for these crossover/family/luxury concoctions, rather than any kind of impartial quality assessment. Yes there are some Lexus's on the list but there are Volvos, BMWs, Mercedes, Audis and even a goddamn Land Rover. Some of those same brands have vehicles on the big depreciation list. The difference? They are sedans, which are severely decreasing in popularity. There is a difference between perception and reality, except when perception basically becomes reality (self-fulfilling).
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