Do Jetour and Jaecoo hold their value in the UAE?

Ask around about a Jetour and someone will tell you it is worth half its price after two years. The same is said of Jaecoo, usually by people who have never seen a used one. Both brands belong to Chery and both arrived in the UAE recently. So the worry is reasonable. If the car loses that much by the time you sell it, the cheap sticker was not cheap.

We can test part of this claim with the listings. Our index holds the active Jetour and Jaecoo listings on Dubizzle, and for GCC-spec cars we can compare the median asking price of each model year. What the listings cannot show is the price a car sold for, since these are asking prices. A listing that disappears is not necessarily sold either.

Jetour asking prices by model year

This is the median asking price of GCC-spec Jetour cars of all models, on 7 October 2026.

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Read naively, this table supports the myth. A 2024 Jetour asks AED 69,500⁴, a little over half the AED 124,450² asked for a 2026 one. The 2023 median, AED 46,499⁵, sits on only 11 listings⁵, so we would not lean on it much.

The trouble is that this table does not follow the same car as it ages. It compares different cars, and the mix of models changes a lot from one year to the next.

Jetour asking prices by model

The model mix is not the same from one model year to the next. The T2, the boxy off-roader, asks well above the Dashing in the same model year (AED 129,994¹¹ against AED 85,000¹⁴ for 2026 cars). It accounts for 30 of the 76 GCC-spec 2026 Jetours^11,2 and 82 of the 123 from 2025^12,3, but only 12 of the 61 from 2024^13,4. The Dashing alone has 23 of those 2024 listings¹⁶. So part of the gap between the 2026 and 2024 medians is a gap between models, not between a new car and the same car two years on.

Splitting the two most listed models by year gives a different picture.

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A 2024 T2 asks AED 98,499¹³ against AED 129,994¹¹ for a 2026 car, so roughly three quarters of the newer price. For the Dashing the 2024 median is AED 67,999¹⁶ against AED 85,000¹⁴, about four fifths. Neither model is anywhere near half.

The model figures need some care. The 2024 T2 rests on 12 listings¹³, which is thin, and a handful of dealer cars could move it. The 2024 cars also show a higher median mileage than the 2026 ones on the T2 page, so the gap mixes age with use, which is how a real used car ages anyway.

What the Jaecoo listings show

For Jaecoo the listings say very little yet. Only one model year has enough GCC-spec cars for a median: the 2026 cars ask AED 88,200⁸, on 14 listings⁸. The 2025 model year has 7 listings⁹ and the 2027 model year has 5⁷, both below the 10 listings we need^7,9, so both are n/a.

With one usable year there is nothing to compare against, and our value retention figure for the brand reads too recent to conclude¹⁰. The used market cannot yet say how a Jaecoo J7 or J8 holds its price, so any Jaecoo resale figure from us would be an estimate, and we do not publish estimates.

Verdict on the myth

For Jetour, the “half in two years” claim comes from reading the brand table as if it tracked one car. At brand level the 2024 median is a little over half the 2026 one^2,4, but within the T2^11,13 and the Dashing^14,16 the drop over the same two model years is far smaller. Jetour does lose value, and on the T2 the biggest single step is between the 2026 and 2025 model years, from AED 129,994¹¹ to AED 112,000¹². The myth is about the price against the new sticker, which asking prices cannot show. What these listings do show is that, for the two most listed models, the asking price does not fall to half between model years.

For Jaecoo the claim is untested. It may turn out right or wrong, and the data will start to say something once enough model years have built up on the used market¹⁰.

What this means if you are buying

The rule we would use: judge a used Jetour against the median for its own model and year, never against the brand average. For a Jaecoo, assume resale is unknown and only buy one you are ready to keep until its warranty runs out.

In practice:

1. Open the model page for the car you are offered, for example the Jetour T2 or the Jetour Dashing, and find the median for its model year. A 2024 T2 priced near the all-model 2024 median of AED 69,500⁴, when 2024 T2s ask AED 98,499¹³, is either a bargain or hiding something, so ask for the service history.
2. Check the asking price on the Check a seller’s price page, which accounts for mileage as well as year.
3. Open the running-costs page to see depreciation next to the other running costs.
4. If you are deciding between the two brands, put them side by side in compare, and look at the wider Chinese market on our Chinese cars page.
5. Watch the deals page for Jetours listed under their model median.

If you are buying new and plan to sell soon, the T2 figures suggest the first year costs the most^11,12, though the Dashing steps down more between 2025 and 2024^15,16 than between 2026 and 2025^14,15. Model years are not one car followed over time, so treat both as a guide only.

How we measured

We used every active GCC-spec Jetour and Jaecoo listing in our Dubizzle index on 7 October 2026, priced within our standard price range. For each model year we took the median asking price, and we only publish a median when a model year has at least 10 listings (the n/a rows above, such as¹, fall below it). The Jetour brand figures rest on 76², 123³, 61⁴ and 11⁵ listings for the 2026 to 2023 model years. The T2 figures rest on 30¹¹, 82¹² and 12¹³ listings, the Dashing on 19¹⁴, 17¹⁵ and 23¹⁶. Jaecoo has one publishable year, on 14 listings⁸.

These are asking prices, not sale prices, and a listing that disappears is not necessarily sold. The model mix explanation comes from the per-model tables above. The full method, including how we filter specs and prices, is on the methodology page.