Shopping for a luxury this year? Get a truck.
This is what a Forbes analysis of all 2011 model year vehicles in the US market, which today found. When it comes to value, pickups and SUVs dominate 450 h sedans under vehicles like the Toyota Highlander Hybrid and the Lexus with a base price higher than $40,000.
The only exception: 2011 Chevrolet Volt, which exceeded our list. During it a traditional luxury car (especially when you consider the interior sets and performance level), qualified price tag of $40,280 for our purposes. And its fuel-efficient hybrid technology and generous federal tax rebates make it the most expensive car of the year.
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"It is obviously a unique vehicle," says Dave Wurster, President of Vincentric, an auto industry analysis firm. "The thing in mind is to keep a lot of people consider the Volt and quota numbers like '$ 40,000 MSRP minus the federal tax credit.'" And that's not really true, because you pay the $40,000; It is only that you get a tax credit later. LEAF (Nissan) would not make this list - it is much cheaper. "
Thanks to these credits the an estimated five year TCO costs on the Volt are proposed only $500, more than its manufacturer retail price.
To compile our list of the most affordable luxury 2011 vehicles, we consulted data Vincentric, headquartered in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan we contain all car, truck or SUV with a price of at least $ 40,000; the evaluation detailed five year total cost prices, depreciation, interest, opportunity costs of fuel, maintenance, repairs, average national insurance and control.
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An annual rate of 15,000 miles per vehicle and a price of $2.899 for regular, $3.189 for premium and $3.186 diesel takes data driven. National Awards from the previous five months and then along the weighted average fuel prices are distorted over the recent months. All costs are graphically as projections based on forecasts Vincentric analysts and gas prices include an inflation rate of 3.5 percent.
Depreciation is the biggest factor in determining how much a particular vehicle is owner costs. Most new cars lose somewhere between 10 and 20 percent of your sticker price at the moment, you leave - tend the lot luxury cars, more than other thanks price premiums based on brand image, interior trim and new-fangled technology rendered by the next-generation model obsolete devalue.
Car buyers should the value of the car after five years of ownership, assess not only the purchase price, but there is a strong correlation between EIA and total operating costs.
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"Operating costs in line slightly fall along with your vehicle price as a group," says Wurster. "A $100,000-vehicle will have a much higher cost of ownership than a $50,000 car." "It is an invalid value, but it will devalue much more."
Consider the Chevrolet Suburban 1500 LS (# 10 in our leaderboard), the GMC Acadia SLT (No. 5) and Honda's Odyssey (No. 2). Have each prices only slightly higher than $40,000, the main reason, why you made the list, says Wurster.
Exactly half of the vehicles on our list costs under $41,000; others show that the initial cost is not the only thing, the long-term costs. Sales tax and fuel costs - or lack thereof - to determine much about the total cost of the own car (see: Chevy Volt, the average tax credit of $4,613 in the Vincentric data while others on our list got taxes paid as high as $2,996). Cadillac CTS wagon has a just-Over the cut-off price of $40,165 but delivers the higher than usual at the gate on our list due to depreciation and insurance costs; Buick Enclave CXL (No. 7) made the cut for the opposite reason.
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This is also where trucks such as the Chevrolet Silverado hybrid hybrid (No. 6) (4) and GMC Sierra. Trucks in extremely well done have the down as other segments suffered - U.S. light truck sales was almost 18 percent 2010 compared with an increase of 5% for passenger cars; SUVs alone were 19.2 percent - and that demand for a good pickup resale value and depreciation directly concerns.
"The demand is after a popular vehicle to benefit its deprecation numerically", says Wurster.
Of course in these days of heated leather seats, DVD screens and chrome heavy trims offered as comfort of essentials in the most pickups, you can not even know you are ever in a truck.
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