4/10 of these are GM trucks! And the Silverado takes the #3 spot which seems very impressive to me. The list shows 3 year and 5 year resale and the ranking is sorted by 5 year.Trucks and SUVs have long dominated this list, but now they've almost completely taken over. With the Chevy Silverado and redesigned Honda Ridgeline returning to the list this year, we're now looking at seven trucks, two SUVs and -- clinging to the number 10 spot -- one car. But they're all standouts. While the average new vehicle will be worth about 33 percent of its original sticker price after 60 months, these 10 vehicles will return an average of 50 percent to their owners' pockets.
And actually the only one on the list that is clearly not a truck is the WRX which takes #10. The Honda Ridgeline could be argued as a crossover-truck (that is what it is). Everything else is a real, body-on-frame, truck or is based on one. To me, and my interpretation is biased, this reads like people perceive body on frame vehicles to have a different lifecycle than unibody vehicles. Unibody vehicles, perhaps, are perceived to be more disposable and the body on frame stuff perhaps has a longer operational life (and can do more work, depending on your definition of work). I have made this argument for the B-body in the past so maybe there is something to that. I don't mean that it translates directly to resale for the B-body, but just the general sense of longevity vs disposability.