According to Black Book data, the average price of a used vehicle for model years 2011 through 2015 depreciated by 1.5 percent in January.

Editors determined cars posted an overall depreciation rate of 1.8 percent, while depreciation for trucks produced a rate of 1.4 percent.

Black Book calculated that all vehicles are averaging a 12-month depreciation change of 17.5 percent.

In January, editors noticed premium sporty cars and prestige luxury cars saw the largest drop in value at 2.8 percent.

Vehicles in the premium sports car category include the Chevrolet Corvette, Porsche 911, BMW 6-Series, Mercedes Benz SL-Class, Lexus RC 350 and Audi R8.

Vehicles in this segment finished January with an average segment price of $39,501, a 19.7-percent downturn from year-ago levels ($49,199).

Units in the prestige luxury car segment include the BMW 7-Series, Mercedes Benz S-Class, Lexus LS 460, Audi A8 and Porsche Panamera. This segment ended January with an average price of $35,654, a 25.4-percent decrease from a year ago during the same month.

Black Book pointed out three segments saw a monthly depreciation of only 1.1 percent, boasting the best retention rates for the month of January. Those segments were full-size crossover/SUV, full-size pickups and small pickups.

Editors said small pickups retained their values the best out of all vehicle segment since last year. The segment finished the month of January with a value of $18,734, a 7.9-percent decrease from last year’s value of $20,346. Vehicles in this segment include Toyota Tacoma, Nissan Frontier, Chevrolet Colorado, GMC Canyon and Honda Ridgeline.

“Vehicle retention values remained relatively strong in January heading into the spring selling season," said Anil Goyal, Black Book senior vice president of automotive valuation and analytics. “It is interesting that luxury vehicles are showing higher depreciation than mainstream brand vehicles across vehicle segments.”