8 Trucks That Are Now WORTHLESS in 2026 — Here Is Why

If you bought a new truck in the last few years, there is a real chance it is worth a lot less today than you think it is, and in a couple of cases on this list, worth almost nothing at all. We went looking for the trucks that have cost their owners the most money, and before anything went on the screen, we checked every claim against the people who actually track this for a living. That means IC Cars, Car Edge, Kelly Blue Book, Consumer Reports, and the Federal Recall Database. Some of these trucks lost a fortune to plain old depreciation. One of them broke a promise that took 20 years to build. One was cancelled before a single customer ever drove it, and one is barely a truck you can even register anymore. Here is the rundown. If you are shopping right now, or you are about to help a parent or a partner buy one of these, do yourself one favor and hit that subscribe button, because this channel checks the numbers before it talks, and that is exactly what you want in your corner before you sign anything. One quick thing before we start. When we say worthless here, we do not mean the truck will not start in your driveway. We mean it will cost you when you go to sell it or trade it in, sometimes a little, and in one case, everything. Let us start at number 8. Number 8. The Toyota Tundra – The 2022-2024 Redesign For almost two decades, Toyota sold the Tundra on one simple idea – that it would never let you down. The old 5.7 liter V8 was not exciting, but it ran forever, and that reputation is a big reason the Tundra has always been one of the best trucks on the road for holding its value. Then Toyota retired that V8 and replaced it with a twin-turbo V6 called the V35A. On paper, more power and better fuel economy. In the real world, something went wrong at the factory. Starting in May of 2024, Toyota recalled these engines because machining debris left over from manufacturing could work its way into the main bearings and, over time, cause the engine to knock, lose power, or stall while driving. That first recall covered about 102,000 vehicles. Then it got bigger. In November of 2025, Toyota expanded it, and the Tundra alone accounted for more than 113,000 trucks. In May of 2026, another 44,000 of the 2024 Tundras were added on top. All told, this engine family has now been recalled across roughly 270,000 trucks and SUVs. And here is the part that should bother any owner. Years into this, Toyota still does not have one clean, final fix for every affected truck. The newest plan is an inspection that decides whether your engine gets replaced or not, and there are already class-action lawsuits over it. Now let us be fair, because this is where a lot of videos lie to you. This has not crushed Tundra resale values. As a nameplate, the Tundra still holds its value better than almost any full-size truck out there, second only to the Tacoma. But that strength was always built on trust, and trust is exactly what this recall is quietly eating away at. Toyota broke the one promise that made this truck special. Ford, at number 7, broke the math. Number 7. The Ford Ranger. The 2024 Redesign. This is not a depreciation story, and any video that tells you the new Ranger is collapsing on the used market is making it up. According to IC Cars, the Ranger is actually one of the best trucks on the road for holding its value, sitting somewhere around third in the entire segment. So why is it on this list? Because the Ranger has a value problem at the cash register, not on the trade-in lot. Ford redesigned it, made it bigger and nicer, and then priced it right into a corner. A base Ranger starts in the low $30,000s, which is perfectly fine, but start adding the things people actually want. Four-wheel drive, the bigger 2.7-liter V6, the nicer trims, and the price climbs in a hurry. Before long, you are looking at a $45,000 midsize truck, and parked right next to it on the same lot is a Ford F-150, a full-size truck, for not much more money. And that is the exact moment the Ranger loses the sale. Because the whole point of a midsize truck is that it is supposed to When that price gap shrinks, the reason to buy the smaller truck shrinks with it. The towing tops out around £7,500, which is well short of what the F-150 will pull, and the engine choices at launch were thin. None of that makes the Ranger a bad truck. It is a good truck. It just keeps losing an argument it should never have to have against its own bigger brother. So the Ranger holds its value just fine. The hard part is convincing somebody to pay full price in the first place, when the truck one size up is sitting right there. Our next truck took people's money first, and then cut the price on them after the fact. Number six, the Rivian R1T. This one is a real depreciation story, and the numbers are rough. Early buyers paid a lot. The first launch edition trucks started around $86,800, and plenty of people spent well into the 90s once they loaded them up. Today, according to Kelly Blue Book, a three-year-old R1T has lost roughly a third of its value, and IC Cars puts the five-year depreciation at north of 50%. Some of the earliest, higher-mileage trucks are selling for close to half of what they cost new. Part of that is simple math. Rivian kept selling newer trucks, sometimes at lower prices, so the people who paid top dollar early were suddenly competing against cheaper ones rolling straight off the line. Then there are the ownership questions that keep used offers low. The service network is still thin compared to a Ford or a Chevy dealer on every corner, so repairs can mean longer waits, and owners report that both parts and insurance run higher than a comparable gas truck. And nobody knows for certain yet how these batteries hold up at 150,000 miles because the trucks simply have not been around long enough. That uncertainty alone keeps a lid on what buyers will pay. Now here is the honest context, because it cuts both ways. The R1T is not the worst electric truck for holding value. It is actually doing better than the Tesla Cybertruck, which has reportedly shed close to 40% in under two years, and better than the Ford F-150 Lightning over five years. So if you are an early R1T owner, this stings. But if you are a used buyer with your eyes open, a lightly used R1T still under its factory battery warranty, for 30-40% off the original sticker, is genuinely one of the more interesting deals in the truck world right now. Rivian cost its early buyers real money. Our next truck cost its buyers something you cannot patch with a software update. Number 5. The Chevrolet Colorado. The 2023 and 2024 model years. When Chevy redesigned the Colorado, it looked sharp, the interior was modern, and the tech was right up to date. Then you looked under the hood and found exactly one engine. Every Colorado, from the cheapest work truck to the top trim, comes with a 2.7-liter turbocharged four-cylinder. No V6, no backup option, take it or leave it. The previous Colorado offered a V6 and even a diesel, so a lot of buyers who wanted choices simply walked away. But the bigger problem was quality. Consumer Reports rated the first year of this new Colorado below average for reliability, and it has been recalled three separate times, including one for the front camera slamming on the brakes when there was nothing actually there. Owners have filled the forums with the same complaints over and over. Touchscreens that freeze or will not shut off, wireless charging that never worked from day one, batteries draining overnight. And that 2.7-liter engine has its own reported issues, from carbon buildup to fuel injector trouble. With a separate recall on some 2023 trucks for cracked engine blocks. None of that builds confidence, and confidence is what holds resale together. Here is the real tell. The older, previous generation Colorado, the one with the V6, has been holding its value about as well as the new one, and in some comparisons, better. When the truck you replaced is aging more gracefully than the truck you built to replace it, you have a problem. The new Colorado is not a disaster, and a lot of the software issues have improved with updates. But for a buyer who wants one engine they can trust, and tech that simply works, it has been a rocky start, and the used market has noticed. Chevy gave buyers fewer options and more glitches. Our next truck went the complete opposite direction. Rammed through everything it had at one electric truck, spent a fortune, and then made a decision almost nobody saw coming. 4. The Ram 1500REV, the all-electric one. And this is where we have to be straight with you, because a lot of videos are getting this one completely wrong. There is no used Ram 1500REV losing value on a lot somewhere, because the all-electric Ram 1500RAM was cancelled before a single customer ever took delivery. Here is what actually happened. Ram announced the REV back in 2023 with enormous promises. Up to 500 miles of range, a 0-60 in the low 4 second range, the works. Then the launch slipped. First it moved from late 2024 into 2025, then it slipped again to late 2026, and then, in September of 2025, Ram pulled the plug entirely, killing the fully electric truck and pointing straight at weak demand for big electric pickups. They had watched the Ford F-150 Lightning, the Chevy Silverado EV, and the Tesla Cybertruck all struggle to find buyers, and they decided not to walk into the same fire. The REV name did not vanish completely. Ram moved it over to a different truck, an extended range hybrid that uses a gas V6 as a generator to feed the electric motors, which is a very different machine from the pure electric truck that was originally promised. So why does a truck that never sold belong on a list about value? Because this is the purest version of a truck losing its worth. It was so unwanted, so far underwater on demand, before it ever arrived, that the company which spent years and a fortune developing it, decided it was worth more dead than alive. The market did not even wait around to depreciate it. The market killed it in the crib. For anybody who put down a deposit dreaming about that 500 mile electric Ram, the value of that truck today is exactly zero, because it does not exist. Our next truck does exist, and people have been quietly walking away from it for years. Number 3. The Honda Ridgeline. The Ridgeline is the truck for people who do not really need a truck, and Honda will more or less tell you that themselves. It is built like a big SUV underneath, instead of a traditional body-on-frame pickup, so it rides smooth, it handles like a car, and it has that clever hidden trunk under the bed. By almost every measure that matters for daily life, it is excellent, and Consumer Reports has rated it one of the most reliable trucks you can buy used. So this is not about quality at all. It is about what the truck market actually wants. The people shopping pickups want towing, payload, ground clearance, and the ability to take a beating off the pavement, and the Ridgeline gives up ground on all of it. Put one next to a body-on-frame competitor at the same price, and for the buyer who needs real truck capability, the Ridgeline loses that comparison almost every single time. According to iSeeCars, that shows up clearly on the used market, where the Ridgeline depreciates a bit faster than the average pickup, losing roughly 42% of its value over five years. A little worse than the truck average. The owners who love it are real, and they are loyal. But it is a shrinking group, and the used market does not price a truck on how much a small, happy crowd adores it. It prices it on demand, and demand for a car-based pickup is drifting the wrong way. Honda built a genuinely good vehicle. The market just keeps asking for something the Ridgeline was never designed to be. Our next truck is the opposite case entirely. Nissan finally built the right kind of truck, and it still was not enough. Number 2. The Nissan Frontier – The 2022-2024 Redesign For years, the Frontier was a punchline. Nissan sold basically the same truck for well over a decade without a real update, while the Toyota Tacoma kept moving forward. Then Nissan finally redesigned it, and they got a lot right. The new Frontier got a strong 3.8-liter V6, making well over 300 horsepower, a modern 9-speed automatic, and a far nicer interior. The drivetrain is dependable, and owners generally enjoy driving it. So let us clear something up, because the lazy version of this story is just wrong. The Frontier is not underpowered, and it is not worthless. On its own, it actually holds its value reasonably well. According to iSeeCars, it loses only about 18% in the first 3 years, and CarEdge calls it one of the bright spots in Nissan's entire lineup. So why is it here? One word – Tacoma. The Frontier does not live in a vacuum. It lives right next to the Toyota Tacoma, which holds its value better than almost any vehicle on the road, period, around 80% of its price after 5 years. The Frontier, over that same 5 years, gives up closer to a third. Both are perfectly good trucks. But when a used buyer can choose between the two, and one of them has decades of resale trust behind it, the Frontier becomes the one that gets negotiated down, and the Tacoma becomes the one people line up for. That is the whole story. The Frontier is not losing because it is bad. It is losing because it is standing next to the single best truck in the business for holding value, and that comparison sets the price on every Frontier trade-in in the country. Nissan built a good truck. It just cannot escape the shadow of a great one. Our last truck did not lose value gradually. It lost everything, all at once. The company, the warranty, the parts, all of it gone. Number 1. The Lordstown Endurance Everything else on this list lost value. This truck lost its entire reason to exist. The Lordstown Endurance was an all-electric pickup built in Ohio, and it had a genuinely interesting idea under the skin. Four electric motors built right into the wheel hubs. The problem was never really the truck itself. The problem was the company. Lordstown Motors built only about 31 of these trucks for sale before everything fell apart, and only around six were ever actually delivered to customers. In the first half of 2023, the company issued three separate recalls on a truck it had barely even built. And then, in June of 2023, Lordstown Motors filed for bankruptcy. And in the truck world, nothing destroys value faster than the manufacturer simply ceasing to exist. Think about what that means if you own one. Who services it? Where do the parts come from? After the bankruptcy, the company actually tried to buy the trucks back from its own customers and decommission them, just to get out from under the warranty and the safety obligations. The handful that escaped that buyback ended up in a strange kind of limbo. Some have been resold for off-road use only. Because the paperwork to register them as normal road vehicles got complicated the moment the manufacturer vanished. You can find a few owners online still driving theirs, and the hub motor drivetrain reportedly works just fine. But none of that matters when there is no warranty, no dealer, and no guarantee you can find a replacement part six months from now. A few have changed hands for a tiny fraction of what they cost new. That is not depreciation. That is abandonment. The endurance did not just lose value. It became the warning label for the entire electric truck experiment. The cautionary tale every other brand quietly points to. So that is the list. Eight trucks that cost their owners, every single one of them in a different way. Some bled out slowly on the trade-in lot. One broke a 20-year promise. One was killed before it ever arrived. And one took the whole company down with it. Now I want to hear from you. Which one of these surprised you the most? And be honest with me, is one of them sitting in your driveway right now? Tell me down in the comments. And if this saved you from a bad decision, or you know somebody who needs to see it before they sign the paperwork, do them a favor and send it their way. Thanks for watching, and I will see you in the next one.