Today Dream Cars
In today’s newest highly technological cars just aren’t built the same way they used to be built, putting mildly. That’s because it’s becoming increasingly difficult to find a truly terrible bad car or truck sitting on a dealer’s showroom floors. Gone are the days of monumental mechanical malaise, Panama canal size gaps, uneven unglued trims, and overall shady workmanship. While no vehicle is 100% perfect, most car models today are performing at a higher level, are far safer than before, and offer more factory set amenities like air conditioning. As a result of technology and manufacturing advances cars are just built better. Moreover they are more durable than at any other time in car and truck history.
Leading the Auto Pack
And yet as the proverbial cream will always rise to the top. As a result some car models will lead the pack while other will flounder behind due to their faulty designs, measurable performance attributes are a hit or a bad miss, and at the end the degree to which their buyers are ultimately satisfied with their new purchase. Some cars unfortunately are just plagued by questionable reliability and as a result a poor resale values, while others are saddled with dated designs and/or technology. Now according to Kelley Blue Book the average vehicle price tag is around $33,871. But astute car buyers should ensure they’re getting the most for their hard-earned money and research their dream car before they pull the proverbial buy now trigger.
Dirty Dozen
For this reason we spent considerable time investigating, reading reviews, and researching deep into huge amounts of data from various sources to put together a the famous dirty dozen list of cars, family cars, crossovers, sports cars and SUVs , that possess extremely positive qualities, remain in a highly competitive car marketplace where sink or swim is the norm.
In our research of we have selected models that not only grade below-average overall ratings, which includes the road test performance and customer satisfaction, from old reliable Consumer Reports, but we also taking into account the magazine’s reader surveys suggestions of which will be the least reliable car model over time.
As a result of poor sub-par resale values according to ALG data via Cars.com all of the vehicles we present can be expected to hit their owners in the wallet. Moreover each car is predicted to retain less than half of its original cost after three years of ownership, and less than a third after five years. #CARCRAZYHUH? In contrast, the average car model retains 35% of its original value after five years, according to KBB, while the cars and trucks having the best resale values for 2016 hold onto 60% or more of their sticker prices after three years and as much as 50% or more after five years.
