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Your car is worth an average of just 34% of what you paid for it when it's 5 years old, according to Kelley Blue Book's kbb.com -- about $10,000 for that $30,000 new buggy.

 

To help guide shoppers, kbb.com picks brands and models that do better than that and decides on resale value winners.

A close second at 46%: BMW X5 XDrive35d, the diesel-power

version of the German automaker's midsize crossover-utility vehicle.

In fact, pickups, SUVs and vans -- which make up what the industry considers the truck category -- tend to hold value better than cars do, kbb.com says. Which means, no, the bigger rigs haven't gone out of fashion. They sell well new and are worth more used.