Five years on, a used Prado asks two-thirds of the newer one's price in Qatar. A Range Rover asks a third.

Everyone in Qatar has heard that a Toyota holds its value. Few can say by how much, or what it is worth in riyals when you sell. Our listings let us put a number on it, model by model.

How we measured it

There are 13,561 live listings on BuMotar today. We kept used cars from model years 2014 to 2025, with between 1,000 and 500,000 km and an asking price of at least QAR 5,000, and removed obvious duplicates: the same car, at the same price, from the same seller. That leaves 8,542 cars.

For every model with at least 50 of those cars spread over at least six model years, 29 models and 3,985 cars, we measured how the asking price falls from one model year to the one before it. The figure below is that fall, as a share of the price: what a car one year older typically asks less, with the kilometres an older car usually has on it. The range in brackets is roughly where the true figure could lie.

From that we worked out what a car five model years older asks, as a share of the newer one: the closest the listings come to a five-year resale value.

The ranking

• Toyota Fortuner — 6.2% a year (5.3% to 7.0%). Five years older asks 73% as much. 63 cars.
• Toyota Corolla — 6.6% a year (5.7% to 7.4%). 71%. 78 cars.
• Toyota Prado — 7.7% a year (6.9% to 8.4%). 67%. 105 cars.
• Toyota Hilux — 7.9% a year (6.0% to 9.7%). 66%. 51 cars.
• Mitsubishi Pajero — 9.9% a year (9.0% to 10.9%). 59%. 186 cars.
• Toyota Land Cruiser — 10.1% a year (9.7% to 10.4%). 59%. 975 cars.
• Toyota Camry — 12.0% a year (10.5% to 13.5%). 53%. 71 cars.
• GMC Sierra — 12.1% a year (11.2% to 13.0%). 52%. 119 cars.
• Lexus LX — 12.9% a year (12.3% to 13.5%). 50%. 263 cars.
• Nissan Patrol — 13.0% a year (12.4% to 13.7%). 50%. 399 cars.
• Land Rover Defender — 13.6% a year (11.3% to 15.8%). 48%. 117 cars, 2020 to 2025 only.
• Mercedes-Benz S-Class — 14.6% a year (13.3% to 15.9%). 45%. 101 cars.
• Dodge Ram — 15.5% a year (14.2% to 16.8%). 43%. 112 cars.
• Range Rover — 18.3% a year (17.3% to 19.4%). 36%. 338 cars.
• Porsche Cayenne — 19.5% a year (18.0% to 21.1%). 34%. 68 cars.

The rest fall in between: the Nissan Sunny, Kicks and X-Trail and the Mitsubishi Outlander lose about 10% a year; the Wrangler, Yukon, E-Class and Mini Cooper about 13% to 14%; the GLE and Infiniti QX about 16%; the BMW 7 Series 18.6%. The MG ZS loses 7.5% a year, but its 55 cars cover only 2018 to 2025 and include a single 2019, so that figure says little yet about a Chinese car at five.

A Prado five model years older asks about two-thirds of the newer one's price. A Range Rover five years older asks about a third.

The Land Cruiser is not the best Toyota at this

At 10.1% a year the Land Cruiser loses far less than the Patrol, the LX or anything European. But the smaller Toyotas do better still. The Prado loses 7.7% a year and the Fortuner 6.2%. The listings cannot tell us why. One reading is that there are always buyers for an older Prado or Fortuner who could not stretch to a Land Cruiser, which props up the price of the older cars.

In riyals, the middle asking price of a 2024 Land Cruiser on BuMotar is QAR 235,000 (135 cars) and of a 2019 one QAR 140,000 (71 cars): a gap of QAR 95,000. For the Prado it is QAR 167,000 (6 cars) against QAR 109,000 (12 cars), a gap of QAR 58,000. The Prado medians rest on few cars; the ranking above uses every year.

Patrol and LX: more car, more loss

The Patrol and the LX lose almost exactly the same, about 13% a year, and both lose clearly more than the Land Cruiser. A 2024 Patrol asks a middle QAR 189,000 (35 cars) and a 2019 one QAR 79,500 (22 cars). A 2024 LX asks QAR 420,000 (37 cars) and a 2019 one QAR 220,000 (28 cars). The LX loses about QAR 200,000 in five model years, more than a five-year-old Land Cruiser asks in total.

Is this just new generations looking expensive?

Partly a fair worry. The Land Cruiser changed generation for 2022 and the LX with it, so a 2024 car is a different car from a 2019 one. We checked. Within the older Land Cruiser generation alone, 2014 to 2021, the loss is 10.0% a year; within the new one, 2022 to 2025, 8.4%. The Patrol from 2014 to 2024, leaving out the new 2025 generation, loses 12.5%. Leaving out 2014 and 2015 altogether moves most models by a point or two; the biggest changes are the Range Rover, up to 21.5%, and the Camry, down to 10.6%. The order at the top and bottom stays the same.

Trim is the other worry: Range Rover covers the Vogue, Sport and Velar, which are different cars. Where our catalogue records the trim, we compared cars only with others of the same trim. The figures barely moved: Land Cruiser 9.5% a year, Prado 7.8%, Pajero 9.5%, Patrol 13.0%, LX 13.5%, S-Class 14.0%, Range Rover 18.3%. We left the BMW X models out of the ranking for the same reason, because the catalogue lumps the X1 to the X7 together.

What the price you pay hides

At these rates, on a car bought for QAR 200,000 (an example, not an average), a model losing 7.7% a year would ask about QAR 134,000 five years on. At the Land Cruiser's 10.1% it would ask about QAR 117,000; at the Patrol's 13.0%, about QAR 100,000; at the Range Rover's 18.3%, about QAR 73,000. On the same purchase price, the gap between the best and worst of those is about QAR 61,000 over five years.

What to do with this

• If you are buying — Count the loss as part of the price. If you will sell within five years, a car near the top of this list costs less to own than its price suggests, and one near the bottom costs more. The other side of the same figure: a three- or four-year-old European luxury car asks a much smaller share of its new price than a Toyota of the same age, so if you want one, used is where it makes most sense. Have it inspected first; a fast-falling price can also mean expensive repairs, and the listings cannot tell you which.
• If you are selling — Price against cars of your model and year, not against what you paid. If you own a model that loses fast, each year you hold it costs more in value than it would on a Toyota, so if you were going to sell anyway, sooner is cheaper.
• If you are holding — The yearly loss slows in riyals as a car gets cheaper, so the first years of ownership cost the most. Past five years, each further year costs less than the last; on a fast-falling model, much of the loss is already behind you.

What we do not know, and what would change the answer. These are asking prices, not sale prices: a model that loses value fast on paper may also sell slower, or further below its asking price, and we cannot see either. We compare cars of different model years for sale today, not the same car followed over time, so a model whose recent years are better equipped or simply more popular will look as if it loses more than it will in the future. Mileage is as the seller states it. The trim check rests on the cars whose trim our catalogue records, between 29% and 64% of each model. The ranges are approximate, about two standard errors either side, and the Prado, Fortuner, Corolla and Hilux figures rest on between 51 and 105 cars each. We did not look at new cars, so none of this says what a car loses in its first year off the showroom floor.

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