PRESENTING: The top 30 best Vehicles resale value… (UPDATED 7 September 2010)

PRESENTING: The top 30 best Vehicles resale value… (UPDATED: 7 September 2010)

I NOW PRESENT my research on used car retained value after few years. It took me 3 months to gather and compile the used car prices from various sources of classifieds namely Motortrader, The Star Classifieds, www.Autoworld.com.my, and random visits to car dealerships/Recond car showrooms…

Here are the vehicles shown with their Retained value in PERCENTAGE (%) within 3 years… (and 5 years in bracket). This is for Local (eg. Tan Chong) AND/OR Official Distributors (eg. Auto Bavaria) cars only. AP Imports to be covered later as their New car price were determined by AP Importer themselves, Ie. It varies, so I just estimated their new price to make this statistic possible, it’ll be unfair if I mix REAL results and estimated results together.

1) Mini One/Cooper: 84% (72%)
2) Honda Civic 1.8 IVTEC/2.0IVTEC 80%/75% (65% -> Civic 1.7VTi)
3) Toyota Avanza: 78% (66%)
4) Perodua MYVI 1.3 SX/EZ: 76%/75%/ (66%/65%)
5) Toyota Vios: 75% (65%)
6)Toyota Camry 2.0/2.4 VVTI 75%/74% (55% => Old model)
7) Honda Jazz 1.5 IDSI/VTEC 74%/72% (66%)
7) Toyota Innova 2.0G 74%/(NA)
7) Honda City 1.5 VTEC 74% (60%)
7) Mitsubishi Lancer GT 74%/(NA)
11) Suzuki Swift 1.5 73% / (63%)
12) Toyota Hilux 2.5D4D 73% / (58%)
12) Proton Saga BLM M-line 73%/(NA)
14) Nissan C22 Vannete 71% (52%)
15) Honda Stream 70% (55%)
16) Honda CRV 70% (54%)
16) Mazda 6 2.3 (2.0) 70% (54%)
18) Mazda 5 (Premacy): 70% (52%)
19) Mercedes C200K 69% (57%)
20) Nissan Frontier 68% (NA)
20) Proton Persona 1.6 Hi-line 68%/(NA)
22) Honda Accord 2.0/2.4/3.0 72%/69%/60% => Average 67%. (60%/54%/46% => Average 53%)
22) Toyota Altis 67% (60%)
24) Nissan Sentra 67% (51%)
25) Perodua Kenari 66% (57%)
26) Nissan Serena 65% (63% - old model)
27) Perodua Kelisa 65% (50%)
27) Perodua Kancil 65% (50%)
29) Mitsubishi Airtrek Turbo 63% (55%)
30) BMW M3/330i Coupe (69%) &
BMW 325i CKD (55%) = Avg: 61% (49%)

OTHERS (Selected) - (5 yrs retained value in bracket)

- Chevrolet Optra 50% (35%)
- Proton Satria GTI: -NA- (60%)
- Proton Wira: 1.3/1.5: 58% (53%), Wira 1.6 -NA- (50%)
- Waja 1.6X: 56% (50%). [74% retained value - 1st year).

Note: Wira and Waja = RM3,000 per year depreciation 3rd year onwards).


AP/Grey Imports (TOP 10 best resale value vehicles):

Again, I can’t determined the Actual new car prices of these cars as it’s Determined by the AP Holders/Grey importers. But I found that it’s safe to say for example Toyota Alphard 2.4’s New car price: RM280,000 with 5% +/- allowance depending on specs (ie. RM266k to RM294k), hence I used this as my estimation to come up with the percentage (%) of retained value results in 3 years (5 years in brackets).

1) VW GOLF GTI 80%/(WALD Edition 70%)
2) Mitsubishi EVO 9 (8/7.5) -NA- 73%/(63%)
3) Honda Odyssey 70% (65%)
4) VW Beetle 2.0 70% (64%)
4) Toyota Wish: 70% (NA)
6) Toyota Altezza -NA- (60%)
7) Toyota Harrier 2.4 67% (55%)
8) Subaru WRX STI Ver 8 66% (59%)
9) Mazda RX8 65% (57%)
10) Toyota Estima 63% (51%)
11) Toyota Alphard 61% (59% for recond 5 yrs old)

THAT’S ALL FOLKS! Hope this STATISTICS will be helpful for you in shopping for your ideal used cars… Again, it took me 3 months to come up with these statistics… You should thank me for it…

NOTE: 30 August 2010, Proton Saga BLM, Persona, VW Golf GTI and Mitsubishi Lancer GT Added
7 September: Mazda  6 2.3 and  Mazda 5 added.