Gas Prices Impacting Certain Segments

Cars & Trucks

One of the most often mentioned topics to the Black Book editors during the week was related to the coming increasing supplies of used vehicles and ultimately an adjustment in value retention. Currently the level of adjustment in the market values is a result of the beginning of a few more choices in the market,…

Here is the latest used car market report from Black Book and Ricky Beggs, Editorial Director. Thanks for taking the time to tune into this video market blog from Black Book. While out in the field for a couple of days this past week, the number of comments I received from people who regularly watch…

According to Black Book data, used vehicles model years 2008-2012 overall depreciated -2.1% in October, marking a noticeable change from September data recorded at -1.3%. Domestic cars depreciated -2.5%; import cars were -2.3%; domestic trucks were -1.7%; and import trucks were -2.1%. Average pre-recession depreciation is historically between -1% and -2% monthly.



Full-size pickups and Full-size CUVs led all segments with the strongest monthly depreciation levels each at just -1.1%.…

Following is the latest used-car weekly report from Ricky Beggs of Black Book USA. This data is for the week ending July 21, 2012.

Even though the overall market continues to move down at increasing dollar and percentage levels, the number of adjustments at 1,941 per day throughout the week was the 3^rd lowest amount over the past 11 weeks. The average price…

Following is the latest Black Book pricing data on the used-car market. Additional analysis and chart information can be found here.



It was an interesting week regarding the market values. Sure the softening trend continued. The car segments were overall at very close to the level of the previous 4 weeks, at -$31 this past week. The lone increasing segment in the cars was the Premium Sporty Cars (PSC) at…