Buying a new car should be a long-term commitment. They’re expensive, and depreciation kills the car’s resale value as soon as you get it out of the car, which is money you’ll never get back.
But even the potential financial hit isn’t severe enough for some to justify keeping the car for more than a year. Some buyers resell their new car within the first year, and a new study reveals the cars buyers can’t wait to get rid of.
Not surprisingly, the list is full of luxury models. According to A new iSeeCars He studiesnearly 30 percent of Land Rover Discovery Sport buyers resell the SUV within just one year. the Porsche Macan In second place, followed by three Mercedes-Benz models – CLA, GLA, and GLB.
Land Rover has two other cars on the list, namely Range Rover Evoque And normal discovery. These are the top 10 cars resold in a year:
- Land Rover Discovery Sport – 28.3%
- Porsche Macan – 22.2%
- Mercedes-Benz GLP – 21.2%
- Mercedes-Benz CLA – 20.4%
- Mercedes-Benz GLA – 16.7%
- Land Rover Range Rover Evoque – 16.4%
- Mercedes-Benz C-Class – 14.0%
- Land Rover Discovery – 13.6%
- BMW 5 Series – 13.4%
- Jaguar F-Pace – 13.3%
The industry average is just 3.6 percent. There are several possible factors as to why luxury cars dominate the list. iSeeCars Executive analyst Karl Brauer said:
“Every model in the top 10 list of new cars most likely to be resold is a luxury car. This suggests that luxury car buyers either don’t do enough research before buying, overspend their money, or are incredibly skittish when it comes to purchasing their new car.”
The study also looked at car brands in general, and shockingly… Porsche Cars have the highest return rate at 16 percent, by a wide margin. Jaguarwhich is the second highest-returning brand, with a resale rate of 10.7 percent. Mercedes-Benz, Land Rover, and Infiniti rounded out the top five, but here’s the full list:
- Porsche – 16.0%
- Jaguar – 10.7%
- Mercedes-Benz – 9.1%
- Land Rover – 8.9%
- Infiniti – 6.5%
- BMW – 6.2%
- Genesis – 6.1%
- Audi – 6.0%
- Mini – 6.0%
- Maserati – 5.7%
according to iSeeCarsPorsche’s position at the top is largely driven by the Macan, though cayenne Ranks in the top 20 resold models.
iSeeCars This data was compiled by analyzing more than 18.5 million individual sales of new vehicles from model years 2022-2025 in 2023 and 2024. The publication used VIN numbers to determine whether a recently sold new vehicle had been relisted between four months and one year after its sell-by date.
