Honda ranks No. 1 for lowest total cost of service, 2021 analysis says

For premium brands, Acura and Lexus were tied for the lowest cost, at $30 for the first three months, followed by Infiniti at $47, and Volvo at $69. For the four top non-premium brands, service and warranty costs for the first 90 days ranged from $21 for Honda, to $22 for Hyundai, to $24 each for Buick and Toyota.

Those numbers don’t sound like much, but there was a lot of variation among brands for the first 90 days — Chevrolet, for instance, was $83, and GMC was $132. In addition, Davies said costs for the first 90 days are a pretty good predictor of what costs would be over the lifetime of a vehicle.

Tesla was not rated among brands because of a lack of available data. The report said the Tesla Model 3 ranks among the top three models by segment, for lowest service cost per vehicle for premium EVs, behind the Audi e-tron, and the Audi e-tron Sportback.