This is how much a 2020 Toyota RAV4 has depreciated in the last 5 years

The Toyota RAV4 is one of America’s best-selling vehicles.

But have you ever wondered how much a Toyota RAV4 depreciates within 5 years?

Some data has recently revealed the answer.

And it will absolutely amaze you.

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The Toyota RAV4 is extremely popular in the US

There’s a pretty good reason that you always see a Toyota RAV4 anywhere you go.

And that is because the Japanese brand sells a lot of them.

The world’s highest-producing carmaker sold over 475,000 of them last year in America alone.

That number almost threatened to knock the Ford F-150 off its top-sales perch.

Toyota’s compact SUV is something of a Swiss army knife when it comes to SUVs.

That is because it sort of does everything pretty well.

It tends to rank middle-of-the-pack in almost every imaginable category.

But there is one category that will surprise you, and that’s depreciation.

On average, new cars lose about 45.5 percent of their original value over five years.

The five-year benchmark is crucial for a variety of reasons.

It marks the point where a car starts to be affordable, but isn’t outdated yet.

How well does it hold its value?

Data from iSeeCars and CarEdge has revealed the performance of the Toyota RAV4.

The two websites pitted the SUV against some of its mid-range competition.

And it turns out that the Toyota RAV4 performs excellently in holding its value.

The website iSeeCars used a 2020 RAV4 as the basis of this examination.

Based on a brand-new price of $29,250 in 2020, a five-year-old RAV4 would now be worth around $20,300.

This means a five-year depreciation rate of around 30 percent.

It also makes the RAV4 the best performer in the mid-range SUV market.

Using the same year model and five-year range, a Honda CR-V would have a depreciation rate of 34.5 percent.

The Mazda CX-5 was found to have depreciated by 42.4 percent, whilst the Hyundai Tucson lost 45.9 percent of its original value.

Its American competition, on the other hand, didn’t do quite as well.

The Chevrolet Equinox was found to have depreciated by 49.6 percent.

But the Ford Escape lost over half of its original value in five years, depreciating by 51.6 percent.

It isn’t overly surprising that the Toyota RAV4 retains its value so well.

The brand’s reputation clearly continues to hold firm for producing solid, reliable cars.