As dealers and buyers started gearing up for Black Friday sales promotions last week, price trends in the lanes were “interesting,” to say the least, said Black Book’s Ricky Beggs.

The editorial director noted in his latest “Beggs on the Used Car Market” video that prices in the auction lanes were described as “all over the board” last week.

With over 1,875 vehicles adjusted for price each day last week, trends began fluctuating a bit.

For example, the $84 decline for the car segments was the largest decline seen over the past eight weeks.

On the other hand, the trucks saw the lowest level change over the past five weeks with a $42 average decline.

“The trucks have been better performers with the lower depreciation than the cars over the past few months,” Beggs said.

The full-size vans were one segment, in particular, to see strong price retention in the lanes this past week, posting a slight increase.

And the full-size pickups continue to perform well with a slight decline of only $12. This marks the smallest decline for this segment over the past six weeks.

And the large utility segments, though they continue to see larger-than-average declines, saw prices bounce back a bit this past week.

The declines of $55 for the full-size SUVs, $87 for the full-size crossovers, and $55 for the luxury SUVs, are the lowest declines seen for each of those large utility segments over the past seven, five, and six of the previous seven weeks, respectively, Beggs reported.

“The pickups and full-size vans are probably being driven by an improving economy along with the construction/service industry,” said Beggs. “The full-size utilities could be driven by the favorable gas prices which fell another 5 cents at the pump this past week to $2.89 a gallon, 33 cents below one year ago.”

See the latest "Beggs on the Used Car Market" video report above.