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Cadillac CT5 Wins J.D. Power 2025 Canada ALG Residual Value Award

The Cadillac CT5 took first place in the Midsize Premium Car segment of the J.D. Power 2025 Canada ALG Residual Value Awards, the analytical firm reports, for keeping its value best after a multi-year lease.

The Cadillac CT5 is one of three vehicles from GM’s luxury marque to win first place in their segment, while four GMC and one Chevy vehicle also won awards.

Side view of the Cadillac CT5.

This is not the first time the Cadillac CT5 has received top accolades in the Canada ALG Residual Value Awards. The luxury sedan got similar results in the 2023 awards, though it did not achieve similar success in the U.S. version of the residual value awards.

Vehicles chosen as the winners are those which research reveals to hold the greatest amount of their original value after three years for premium vehicles like the Cadillac CT5. For mass-market vehicles, the period of the study is four years. The value is based both on past results and forecasted outcomes from “product competitiveness” and “brand outlook.”

Danny Battaglia, a managing director at J.D. Power, said of the winners that “these top brands’ awareness and tactical approach to pricing trim levels and powertrains also helps raise residual performance.” The combination of factors found in the winning nameplates “provides long-term value for shoppers that are buying in a competitive market.”

Rear three quarters view of the Cadillac CT5.

In order to determine how much value is likely to remain at the end of a lease, J.D. Power works “mileage, quality / reliability, options and feature sets and macroeconomic environment” into the equation. Predictably, Japanese brands like Lexus and Toyota dominate the top performers, though GM, as noted, also had plenty of solid contenders.

The study identified 32 segment winners in all out of 282 models evaluated. 16 brands got an award in at least one of these 32 categories this time around.

Cockpit view of the Cadillac CT5.

Battaglia also remarked that the examples of Toyota and other automakers show that introduction of significant updates doesn’t need to reduce the residual value already successful models, showing that brands can “strategically make select updates or redesigns to their vehicles while retaining elements that deliver strong residual value.”

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