Effective 5-Year Ownership Cost
MEASURED SPEC · $The total cost of owning this vehicle for 5 years: the dollar value lost to depreciation (volume-trim price minus its estimated resale value) plus projected 5-year maintenance and repairs. This is a calculated total rather than an independently researched figure. Lower is better.
5.1 Financial Ownership Cost · weight 70 within its category · inverted (lower is better)
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 — inverted, so lower is better.