{"id":907059,"date":"2026-05-20T03:12:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/these-types-of-vehicles-typically-depreciate-faster-than-others\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T03:12:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:12:24","slug":"these-types-of-vehicles-typically-depreciate-faster-than-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/these-types-of-vehicles-typically-depreciate-faster-than-others\/","title":{"rendered":"These Types Of Vehicles Typically Depreciate Faster Than Others"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Every gearhead has been in this situation. You’re surfing through eBay Motors or Facebook Marketplace looking for cars, either just for fun or because you want a new project, and you see it: a European luxury car like a Mercedes S-Class, a BMW 7 Series, or something wild like a Maserati. The price is really low, and it doesn’t look like a scam. The value has just depreciated to the bottom floor.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Vehicle price depreciation is an odd beast that combines statistics, automotive technology, and general customer sentiment towards a brand. Those factors are why brands like\u00a0<\/a>Toyota\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0Honda depreciate very slowly. People see them as reliable, unadorned with quickly outdated technology, and easy to find. For example, a 10-year-old Toyota 4Runner still commands a high price in the used market, with prices around $20,000 (brand-new\u00a0it’s $42,070). They’re classically reliable vehicles that people tend to really enjoy and have a healthy aftermarket.<\/p>\n

The opposite trend tends to affect European luxury cars like the aforementioned Maserati. Bleeding-edge technology from the time ages about as well as a banana; if you aren’t a specialized mechanic, the reliability is suspect, and consumer taste for high-end cars is fickle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Breaking down the numbers a bit, a new Maserati GranTurismo<\/a>, a luxury sports coupe with an Italian-crafted interior, and a 3.0-liter V6 that throws down 483 horsepower, costs a staggering $145,000. Looking through a site like CarGurus, you will find 10- to 15-year-old Maserati GranTurismos for under $30,000 all day long. Maseratis are performance cars that tend to be driven to the edges of the performance envelope. That accelerates the entropy and drives the price lower.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On the luxury side, the price trend is much of the same. You can find a 20-year-old Mercedes S-Class for under $10,000 very easily. A new 2026 S-Class starts (without any options) at $119,500. The technology becomes outdated very quickly, and the finely tuned suspension can grow finicky as the components age and parts become harder to find and stay expensive. Plus, finding a specialized European car mechanic willing to work on a decades-old S-Class without charging a small fortune is likely a fool’s errand.<\/p>\n

If you lived in Germany, where the S-Classes are born, or in Italy, where the Maseratis start their life, then it might be different, as the infrastructure to support those aging vehicles is potentially a lot stronger. But here in the United States, where there’s a Toyota shop in every town, European luxury cars are going to stay toward the pricey-to-maintain end\u00a0of the maintenance spectrum.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n Qiana Guillemette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every gearhead has been in this situation. You’re surfing through eBay Motors or Facebook Marketplace looking for cars, either just for fun or because you want a new project, and you see it: a European luxury car like a Mercedes S-Class, a BMW 7 Series, or something wild like a Maserati. The price is really<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":907060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,43,3847],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-907059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"category-these","9":"category-types"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}