HiLux or Ranger: which holds its value?
New, they cost about the same. Five years on, a used HiLux asks about $10,000 more than a Ranger of the same age. We compare Australia's five most common used utes.
The median Ford Ranger for sale is asking $37,150, with about 3,300 for sale at a median of 91,013 km. A five-year-old one is asking about 48% of what one a year old or less is.
Median asking price of the cars for sale now, by version. Choose one to see every figure on this page for it alone.
Monthly, across every listing live that month
Listings that came off the market that month
Median asking price by years since build
Median asking price in 20,000 km bands
Median asking price of current listings
Official state figures. They count cars changing owner or registered, not prices, and cover one state each, not the whole country.
Cars of this model changing owner each month, dealer and private sales together
Transfers in the year by seller and buyer. Non-private covers businesses and fleets.
Sources: Monthly Vehicle Transfers, Department of Transport and Planning (Victoria), and Vehicle registration transfers by year, Transport and Main Roads (Queensland), both CC BY 4.0; Road Vehicles Australia, Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics (BITRE), CC BY. Cars of a variant such as the Golf R are counted under the plain model.
New, they cost about the same. Five years on, a used HiLux asks about $10,000 more than a Ranger of the same age. We compare Australia's five most common used utes.
About 3,200 used Ford Rangers are for sale, more than any other model. Utes and SUVs fill the top ten, and the Corolla is the only passenger car in it.
Groups with fewer than 3 listings are left out. Cars with under 1,000 km (usually ex-demo) are counted separately as near-new, not in the used figures.