Auction sales of cars aged eight years or less hit a five-year high, and late-model auction sales climbed 12 percent.

That’s according to the latest issue of Guidelines from NADA Used Car Guide released Friday.

The report said there were 4.17 million auction sales of cars 8 years old or newer in 2015, which beat the prior-year figure by 5 percent.

The last time auction volume was that high was 2010, when 4.77 million units were sold.

NADA Used Car Guide said that a tad bit more than 3 million of those 2015 auction sales were late-model vehicles, which the company deems as vehicles 5 years old or less. In 2014, late-model auction sales were at 2.67 million, the report indicated.

Within late-model auction volumes, the large pickup seemed to be the star of the show.

At 258,093 auction sales, it was up 40 percent year-over-year — the biggest hike of any segment, NADA Used Car Guide said. It also increased its share of the late-model auction market by more than any other vehicle category.

Late-model subcompact cars (up 35 percent), compact cars (up 21 percent) and luxury subcompact/compact utilities (up 20 percent) also showed big surges in auction volume.

The segment with the most share of late-model auction volume was, once again, midsize cars at 19.7 percent (down from 21.3 percent a year earlier), according to the report. The second-place compact cars have gained some ground, climbing from 14.8 percent to 16 percent.

Of course, the late-model segment gaining the most ground was the aforementioned large pickup (its share was up 1.7 percentage points), but NADA Used Car Guide points out that that segment’s share of the market (8.6 percent) trails where it was six years earlier (9.6 percent).