Continuing the awards doled out at Used Car Week, both Vincentric and IntelliChoice recognized top automaker certified pre-owned programs Tuesday during the CPO Forum portion of the week-long conference series.

Starting with the 17th annual IntelliChoice Certified Pre-Owned Car Awards, the Best Premium Program Award went to Jaguar, while Kia was honored with the Best Popular Program Award.

A grand total of 26 OEM programs (12 premium, 14 popular) were evaluated this year in nine areas. IntelliChoice analyzes such things as extended manufacturer warranties, pre-owned ownership costs, the thoroughness of the inspection process and special finance incentives.

“IntelliChoice has been tracking monthly CPO incentives for a couple of years and this year placed extra emphasis on the incentives being provided to the consumer,” IntelliChoice’s Eric Anderson said in the news release announcing the awards. “Jaguar and Kia both edged out Volvo and Hyundai for the best programs by having better special financing offers over the last year.”

The complete list of IntelliChoice’s CPO winners for 2015 is below:

Best Premium Program Award: Jaguar
Best Premium Warranty Award: Volvo
Best Premium Brand Used Ownership Costs Award: Lincoln

Best Popular Program Award: Kia
Best Popular Warranty Award: MINI
Best Popular Brand Used Ownership Costs Award: Toyota

Vincentric Awards

Also announced Tuesday were Vincentric’s CPO awards. Audi, Ford, Honda and GMC were all recognized with awards in key vehicle categories.

• Ford was honored as the Vincentric Best CPO Value in America award winner for the SUVs, crossovers and vans categories.
• Honda took how the title of best CPO value passenger car brand.
• Audi notched the best CPO value luxury brand award.
• GMC earned recognition as the best CPO value truck brand.

Toyota also had a good showing with seven models earning Vincentric CPO awards. Nissan had five individual winners.

“The Vincentric Best CPO Value in America awards offer insight to those trying to understand which certified pre-owned vehicles provide the best value in today’s market,” said David Wurster, president of Vincentric. “Low cost of ownership is fundamental to providing great value, and these awards have been created to enlighten potential buyers as to which vehicles offer the best value.”      

Taking a look at Vincentric’s methodology, the company analyzed over 15,000 vehicle configurations, using eight cost factors including depreciation, fees and taxes, financing, fuel, insurance, maintenance, opportunity cost and repairs.

Using a statistical analysis, the company identified the Vincentric Best CPO Value in America winners by measuring which vehicles had lower than expected ownership costs given their market segment and price, the company explained.

To view the full list of the Vincentric Best CPO Value in America awards, see www.vincentric.com.