If you want to buy a car with great resale value, you should consider buying a truck. That is just one of the many surprising and valuable conclusions to be drawn from the 2016 Kelley Blue Book Best Resale Value Awards. We'll give you more details later in this extensive coverage of the awards and award-winners, but a quick fact is that just two of the top 10 vehicles having the best predicted resale values for this model year are cars. The eight others are either trucks or SUVs. That fact is yet another example of the American public's switch from traditional cars to tall vehicles like pickups and SUVs.

Why should you care about resale value? That's like asking why you should care about your personal finances at all. Unless you drive your vehicle until the wheels fall off and it becomes a moldering pile of parts smoking in the middle of the road, the ultimate resale value of your ride has a very direct and important effect on your transportation costs. As much as you might love your car, at some point you're going to sell it, and the results of that transaction can either be a big win - high resale value - or a tragic loss - low resale value. The difference can be thousands of dollars that you either keep or toss out the window.