Supercar Depreciation: The 2026 Ladder

The supercars: allocation is the retention

All figures are this site's modeled retention of MSRP — the same depreciation profiles the calculators run on. Data snapshot: August 2026. Estimates, not appraisals. The nine supercar rows first, best hold to worst.

• Bugatti Chiron — 86%. MSRP $3,300,000. Three-year loss $462,000. Five-year retention 80%. The best percentage on the performance ladder is also the largest dollar loss on it — both facts are true at once. Only the Rimac Nevera, which keeps 52% of $2,200,000, sheds more anywhere on this site.

• Lamborghini Revuelto — 85%. MSRP $608,000. Three-year loss $91,200. Five-year retention 76%. The V12 flagship transacts over sticker and the used market backs it.

• Ferrari 296 GTB — 82%. MSRP $342,000. Three-year loss $61,560. Five-year retention 73%.

• Lamborghini Huracan — 73%. MSRP $249,000. Three-year loss $67,230. Five-year retention 64%.

• Audi R8 — 73%. MSRP $197,000. Three-year loss $53,190. Five-year retention 64% — the Huracan's engine at four-fifths the sticker, holding the same percentage.

• Ferrari SF90 — 71%. MSRP $524,000. Three-year loss $151,960. Five-year retention 61%.

• McLaren 750S — 62%. MSRP $331,000. Three-year loss $125,780. Five-year retention 50%.

• McLaren Artura — 58%. MSRP $254,000. Three-year loss $106,680. Five-year retention 46%.

• Maserati MC20 — 58%. MSRP $249,000. Three-year loss $104,580. Five-year retention 47%.

The sports cars: America on top

The eight sports-car rows, same ranking. The ceiling belongs to a Chevrolet.

• Chevrolet Corvette Z06 — 77%. MSRP $116,000. Three-year loss $26,680. Five-year retention 68%. Transacts over sticker; see its guide for why that retention argues for buying, not leasing.

• Porsche 911 — 75%. MSRP $175,000. Three-year loss $43,750. Five-year retention 66%. The perennial benchmark, still beaten by the flat-plane Chevy.

• Porsche 718 Cayman — 70%. MSRP $74,000. Three-year loss $22,200 — the smallest dollar loss on the entire performance ladder. Five-year retention 60%.

• Lotus Emira — 66%. MSRP $111,000. Three-year loss $37,740. Five-year retention 55%. The last gas Lotus holds like a modern classic in waiting.

• Mercedes-AMG GT — 65%. MSRP $148,000. Three-year loss $51,800. Five-year retention 54%.

• BMW M3 Competition — 64%. MSRP $86,000. Three-year loss $30,960. Five-year retention 53%.

• Aston Martin Vantage — 60%. MSRP $194,000. Three-year loss $77,600. Five-year retention 49%.

• Mercedes-AMG C63 S E Performance — 58%. MSRP $89,000. Three-year loss $37,380. Five-year retention 47%. The four-cylinder controversy, priced by the used market.

Percentages are stories; dollars are invoices

The Chiron is the ladder in one car: an 86% retention — the best of all seventeen — that still bills $462,000 of depreciation in three years, because 14% of $3.3 million is more than the entire sticker of every sports car listed above. Percentage retention is the health of the market; dollar loss is what leaves your net worth. Read both, always.

The top of the supercar board is an allocation story. Revuelto at 85% and 296 GTB at 82% are new-era hybrids whose order books outrun production — the used market prices the queue, not the powertrain. The McLaren pair at the bottom tells the inverse story: brilliant machinery, soft brand equity, 100-plus-thousand-dollar losses on quarter-million-dollar cars.

In the sports cars, the Z06's 77% and the 718's $22,200 are the same virtue at two scales — strong demand against constrained supply, at $116,000 and $74,000 respectively. The C63 at 58% is what happens when the supply is fine and the demand is arguing with itself about cylinder count.

Modeled estimates against MSRP, snapshotted August 2026. Options rarely survive into resale, over-sticker premiums never do, and a single hard market year can redraw the bottom half of this board.

What the ladder says about contracts

The lease-or-buy rule from the SUV ladder transfers intact: above roughly 65% three-year retention, buying tends to win — the Z06, 911, 718, R8, Huracan, and the allocation Ferraris and Lamborghinis all argue for ownership if you can acquire near sticker. Below 55%, the lease is depreciation insurance: the Artura, MC20, and C63 are the board's clearest lease cases.

The middle band is where quotes decide. An AMG GT at 65% or an Emira at 66% can go either way depending on the money factor and the discount in the room — run both routes in the lease-vs-buy calculator with the numbers in front of you.

And the allocation cars carry their own asterisk: retention computed on MSRP is a fiction if you paid 20% over it. The premium is a sunk cost the resale market never refunds — the Purosangue guide walks that math in full.

Three desks: brochure, live ladder, methodology

I keep three sheets on this desk. Porsche, Chevrolet, and Lamborghini pages are for the model families I already named. They do not print this site's year-1 through year-5 retention ladder.

The live rows behind this guide sit on https://luxemetry.com/cars and in the depreciation calculator at https://luxemetry.com/depreciation-calculator . Percentages are stories; the dollar columns on this page are the invoice.

How those retention curves are built is on https://luxemetry.com/methodology . A dealer trade quote is a different desk.