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Is Cadillac CTS depreciation good or bad?
I’m looking into buying a used 2018 Cadillac CTS, and I tried to research Cadillac CTS depreciation, but I can’t make heads or tails of this data. Can you tell me straight if Cadillac CTS depreciation is good or bad? And what numbers should I be looking at?
Matt Terzi · Updated on
Reviewed by Shannon Martin, Licensed Insurance Agent.
First, let’s talk about Cadillac CTS depreciation. Cars lose the most value in the first few years of their ownership. But for a Cadillac CTS, that gets pretty steep: the 2018 Cadillac CTS lost over 47 of its value just one year after its release.
That means someone who bought a CTS brand new in 2018 could resell it one year later, in 2019, for slightly less than half of what they paid for it. Cadillac, as a brand, suffers from hefty depreciation, and the CTS was among their worst offenders.
Luxury cars and sports cars generally depreciate a lot faster than most other vehicles, and the Cadillac CTS is really both, with its optional 3.6-liter twin-turbo V6 and absolutely bonkers 6.2-liter supercharged V8 (you guys put a 640 horsepower V8 in a Cadillac? Seriously?).
All of that is bad news. The good news is that the worst of the Cadillac CTS’s depreciation is already behind it, whether you buy a 2018 CTS or a 2019 model (the model was discontinued after that).
When we’re looking at depreciation, the rate of decline is the key figure you want to consider. And for most cars, that line is steeper in the first one to three years, before tapering off into significantly smaller yearly losses ranging from 5 to 15 percent, or thereabouts.
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