Black Book will begin offering the monthly Used Vehicle Retention Index to measure the strength of used wholesale market values, the company has announced.
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Two- to six-year old vehicles depreciated 0.8% in February, with trucks and vans showing relative strength, while luxury and sporty cars again fell hardest, especially when compared to year-ago values, according to Black Book.
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After four weeks of living below 0.37% depreciation, the truck segment reached its highest depreciation rate in February — and the second-highest this year — last week, according to Black Book’s Feb. 27 Market Insights report.
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The vehicle depreciation rate will reach 17.8% in 2017 on 17 million new-vehicle sales, slightly higher than the 17.3% mark recorded in 2016, according to latest forecast from Black Book and Fitch Ratings. Prior to the Great recession, annual depreciation trended between 16% and 18%.
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The truck segment outperformed cars and luxury car depreciation rates remained high last week, according to Black Book’s Feb. 20 Market Insights report.
Read More →Luxury vehicles continued to struggle last week, as the segment realized some of the highest depreciation rates among all segments, according to Black Book’s Feb. 13 Market Insights report.
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Small and large pickups were among the top performing segments in January with a 1.1% depreciation rate among two- to six-year-old vehicles sold in auction lanes, according to Black Book.
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While the truck segment had its best week — in terms of vehicle depreciation — last week, luxury cars saw values tumble, according to Black Book’s Jan. 31 Market Insights Report.
Read More →Black Book has introduced Visual Analytics, a subscription-based interactive data solution that enables auto professionals and lenders to easily unearth and gain insights on outcomes leveraging historical, current and projected vehicle and segment valuation data, according to the company.
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Car segments are retaining their values better than they have in the past six months.
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