5-Year Resale Value Retention
MEASURED SPEC · %Projected percent of MSRP retained after 5 years (industry residual estimates). Shown for reference — a high retention PERCENTAGE doesn't by itself mean cheap to own, so it feeds the Effective 5-Year Ownership Cost below, which converts it into actual dollars of depreciation, rather than being scored on its own.
5.1 Financial Ownership Cost · weight 0 within its category
Every scored vehicle, compared
One row per model at its newest scored year, best first.
Raw measurements are directly comparable across the whole list. The score is not — it's normalized within each body type, so a truck's 78 and a sedan's 78 mean “good for a truck” and “good for a sedan”.
Distribution
Where the field clusters, and who the outliers are. Hover any dot.
Over time
How this criterion moved year over year. 113 models have two or more scored years.
Normalization bands
The % range that maps to 0–100 in each class.