The U.S. market shows that the familiar belief that Toyota best preserves value isn't always confirmed when comparing specific models: over five years, the Honda Civic loses less value than the Toyota Corolla, reports infohub.kz.
According to an iSeeCars study, over five years the Honda Civic loses an average of 22.9% of its value, while the Toyota Corolla loses 27.6%. The difference is also noticeable in dollars: the Civic depreciates by an average of $5,800 (about 2.6 million tenge), while the Corolla loses $6,300 (2.8 million tenge). As a result, the Honda loses 4.7 percentage points less of its original value.
Toyota as a whole still performed well: 10 of its models made the top 25 for best value retention. The Honda Civic ranked sixth overall.
The comparison within the family is even more interesting. The hybrid version of the Toyota Corolla loses an average of 30.1% over five years—more than the standard Corolla's 27.6%. The study does not provide separate data for the hybrid Civic: that version only appeared in the U.S. in 2023, so there aren't yet enough cars of the right age for a full five-year comparison.
U.S. figures, of course, cannot be directly applied to the Kazakh market. Honda has not been officially represented in Kazakhstan for more than ten years, and new Civics mostly enter the country through private imports. Nevertheless, the study shows that the familiar belief that Toyota especially preserves value isn't always confirmed when comparing specific models. In the U.S., the Corolla remains a competitive option, but in this pairing the Civic came out ahead.
The iSeeCars analysis covered more than 950,000 five-year-old cars sold in the U.S. from March 2025 to February 2026. The calculation compared inflation-adjusted original prices with average used-car prices.
Earlier, Kursiv Auto reported that Toyota's sales and production have been declining for a second month in a row.