Which Hyundai Tucson trim depreciates the fastest?
The popular Tucson is a bread-and-butter model for the Hyundai brand in South Africa. There’s a new Tucson on the way to local shores though, so in the meantime, we are going to determine which of the current Tucson models have depreciated the most since new.
Which Hyundai Tucson trim depreciates the fastest?
The first generation of the Tucson was a bit of a trailblazer for the Hyundai marque when it arrived in 2005. The Tucson, Getz and Atos arrived just after the turn of the century and helped establish Hyundai as a household name among South Africans. The Tucson was produced until 2009 when it was replaced by the second-generation model, now badged the ix35, which proved even more popular during its six years in the market.
The third and indeed, current generation of the product was again badged Tucson has been around since 2016, continuing the brand’s streak of successful mid-sized SUVs. We have selected the petrol-only model range first introduced in 2016, and have excluded the diesel models introduced in the following years as there were an insufficient number of the oil-burners that qualified for our comparison since they were introduced a year later.
Our parameters for today’s depreciation comparison include a mileage restriction of 100 000km, model years 2016 and 2017 only and the requirement that there be at least four examples of each derivative with which to determine average depreciation. Let us see which one of the remaining three depreciates the most.
2015/2016 Hyundai Tucson 2.0 Nu Premium manual
New Price: R359 900
Average Current Price: R268 292
Value Retained: 74.54%
Looking at the entry-level 1.5-litre model, we see that it has retained an impressive amount of its value, however, two of the models used for our comparison has very low mileage, which will have inflated the values a bit.
2016/2017 Hyundai Tucson 2.0 Nu Premium automatic
New Price: R379 900
Average Current Price: R302 641
Value Retained: 79.66%
The Premium automatic model was the most numerous Tucson model found during our search, with seventeen of them qualifying for our search criteria. Considering the number of examples and the varying mileage of the examples, this derivative has retained its value well.
2016/2017 Hyundai Tucson 2.0 Nu Elite automatic
New Price: R439 900
Average Current Price: R326 669
Value Retained: 74.25%
Looking at the entry-level 1.5-litre model, we see that it has retained an impressive amount of its value, however, two of the models used for our comparison has very low mileage, which will have inflated the values a bit.
2016/2017 Hyundai Tucson 1.6 TGDi Executive manual
New Price: R419 900
Average Current Price: R368 700
Value Retained: 87.80%
The surprise of the comparison goes to the turbocharged manual model, which has retained its value remarkably well, with all six examples found retaining over 87% of their value since new.
2016/2017 Hyundai Tucson 1.6 TGDi Elite DCT AWD
New Price: R499 900
Average Current Price: R343 296
Value Retained: 68.67%
The flagship Tucson was both the least numerous, with just four examples qualifying for our comparison and the model which experienced the most depreciation among all of the models used in this comparison.
Which one depreciates the fastest?
Having looked at the figures, it would appear that the flagship 1.6 TGDi Elite AWD model depreciates the most among the five models that we selected for this comparison.
