Which cars hold their value best in the UAE?

Resale value is easy to leave out of a car budget. Insurance and fuel arrive as regular bills, while depreciation is paid once, on the day you sell, long after the decision was made.

We cannot see what cars sell for, only what sellers ask. But with every active Dubizzle listing in our index we can line up asking prices by model year and see how quickly each brand and model falls as it ages. Everything below uses listings as of 7 October 2026.

How to read “value lost per year of age”

For each model we take the GCC-spec listings, find the median asking price of each model year, and fit the rate at which that median drops for each extra year of age. A brand’s figure is the median of its models’ figures. So when we say Toyota loses 9.9% a year⁶, we mean that on today’s listings a Toyota one model year older typically asks about 9.9% less⁶, model for model.

This compares different cars of different ages on the same day. It does not follow one car through its life. We only publish a brand figure for brands with 100 or more listings, and only from models with at least three model years that have enough GCC listings⁵⁷. Below that the figure is n/a.

Brands that lose the least

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Read the age column before the first one. Suzuki’s 1.7%⁷⁵ is the lowest figure in the data, but half the Suzukis for sale are two years old or younger⁷⁴, so the figure mostly describes young cars. We would not read it as proof that a Suzuki barely depreciates. Geely and Jetour are in the same position, with a median listed age of one year^101,80. Their used market is not old enough yet to say much past the first couple of model years.

Toyota and Kia are a different case. Toyota’s figure rests on 3,615 listings⁴ with a median age of four years⁵, Kia’s on 880 listings⁴⁰ at five years⁴¹. Those cars are older than the young brands above, so their figures have been tested over more model years.

Brands that lose the most

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German and British premium badges fill most of this table. Mercedes-Benz, the most listed brand in the index with 4,160 cars¹, sits in the middle at 15.6%³, next to Ford at 15.4%¹⁸ and Volkswagen at 15.7%⁴⁵. Nissan loses 13.0%⁹, Porsche 13.8%²¹, Lexus 14.0%³⁰ and Jeep 14.7%³⁹.

Model by model

Brand figures hide a wide spread. Inside Porsche, the 911 loses 9.4% a year⁴⁷⁰ and the Cayenne 20.2%⁴⁷⁶. Inside Toyota, the Fortuner loses 7.3%⁴⁸⁵ and the Camry 14.3%⁴⁹¹. The table shows the slowest and the fastest losers among the most listed models in the index, not every model we measured.

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The two most listed models in the index are a good example. The Nissan Patrol, with 985 listings⁴⁶³, loses 15.1% a year⁴⁶³. The Toyota Land Cruiser, with 734⁴⁶⁴, loses 9.9%⁴⁶⁴. They compete for the same buyers, and the gap between them adds up over a few years of ownership. We set them side by side in Land Cruiser vs Patrol, and you can run your own pair in compare.

Further down the list, the Lexus LX loses 14.0% a year⁴⁷⁹, the Nissan Altima 15.8%⁴⁸⁰, the Jeep Grand Cherokee 16.2%⁴⁸¹ and the Mercedes-Benz G-Class 16.6%⁴⁶⁶.

Chinese brands and Ferrari: where there is no figure

BYD has 311 listings in the index⁸², but its median age is one year⁸³ and its yearly loss comes out n/a⁸⁴. Changan is n/a¹¹⁴, with a median listed age of 0 years¹¹³, which means at least half the Changans on sale are this year’s models. GAC is n/a¹²⁰. MG, Geely and Jetour do have figures, listed in the first table, but on cars that are still young. Our Chinese cars page tracks these brands as their used markets fill in.

Ferrari is n/a too⁵⁷, despite 521 listings⁵⁵. The brand clears the listing threshold, so the gap is at model level: no Ferrari model has enough GCC listings across enough model years to fit a rate.

What this means if you are buying

The decision rule: between two cars at a similar price that you plan to keep for a few years, take the one with the lower yearly loss, provided the brand’s figure was measured on cars as old as yours will be when you sell. If the brand’s listed cars have a median age of one or two years, as with Jetour⁸⁰ or MG⁴⁷, the figure has not been tested at the age you will sell at, so give more weight to the warranty and to any buy-back terms the dealer offers.

Bear in mind that a low yearly loss says nothing about the price you pay on day one. Compare the asking price of the specific car with other cars of the same model year before you decide.

1. Open the model page, for example the Toyota Fortuner or the Range Rover Sport, to see asking prices by model year.
2. Open the running-costs page to see depreciation next to running costs such as insurance and fuel.
3. Check a specific listing against the market on the Check a seller’s price page.
4. If your budget is fixed, start from the budget tool, then check each shortlisted model against the tables above.
5. Watch the deals page for slow-losing models listed under their model median.

How we measured

We used every active listing in our Dubizzle index on 7 October 2026, priced within our standard price range. For each model, we took the median asking price of GCC-spec cars in each model year, leaving out years with too few listings, and fitted the yearly rate of decline. A brand’s figure is the median of its models’ rates, and we only publish one for brands with 100 or more listings and where at least one model has three model years with enough GCC listings⁵⁷. The brand figures above rest on between 144 listings (RAM¹³⁰) and 4,160 listings (Mercedes-Benz¹). The model figures rest on between 211 listings (Toyota Camry⁴⁹¹ and Nissan Pathfinder⁴⁹²) and 985 listings (Nissan Patrol⁴⁶³). Listing counts include all specs, while the price trends use GCC-spec cars only.

These are asking prices, not sale prices, and a listing that disappears is not necessarily sold. The full method, including how we filter specs and prices, is on the methodology page.