GAINESVILLE, Ga. -

Last week in the lanes didn’t bring any surprises as far as price movement was concerned.

According to the latest Black Book Market Report, auctions saw relatively stable declines in values across the vehicle segments the company tracks.

Overall, car prices dropped by an average of 0.42 percent or $47, while trucks saw a similar dollar drop of $48 or 0.30 percent. This drop for cars was similar to the average depreciation rate seen over the past three months, while the decline in truck values was slightly higher than rates previously tracked over the summer.

That said, the larger vehicles continue to perform well in the lanes, as Black Book editors overheard an auction attendee from California say, “SUVs, 4-wheel drives and pickups were all in demand at today’s sale.”

For the car side of the business, Black Book pointed out the near-luxury car (down 0.05 percent), entry-midsize car (down 0.17 percent), premium sporty car (down 0.23 percent) and sporty car (down 0.24 percent) segments performed relatively well last week after seeing some significant declines over the summer.

On the other hand, passenger minivans took the biggest hit last week with a decline of 1.03 percent or $123. Compact SUVs and full-size vans continued to perform well with price remaining basically flat week-over-week.

None of the segments Black Book tracks saw prices rise last week.

“Decline in values across car segments are in line with the trends over the last 12 weeks. Passenger minvans experienced a steep decline while SUVs continued to hold value,” said Anil Goyal, vice president of automotive valuation and analytics.

In this week’s report, Black Book also analyzed depreciation trends over the past three months.

What will probably not come as a surprise to the industry, trucks were the strongest performers, while smaller cars showed heaving depreciation, according to Black Book data.

Entry-level cars saw the largest depreciation over the past three months, with rates dropping by 9 percent, followed by the compact car and full-size car segments which both dropped by 8 percent over the same period.

On the other side of the spectrum, the compact SUVs saw the strongest price retention with a drop of just 0.1 percent over the past three months, followed by the full-size SUV segment, which saw prices decline by just 0.2 percent.

 The compact pickups also performed well with a slight drop of 0.7 percent, followed by the midsize pickups, which saw prices drop by 1.6 percent.

Interestingly, Black Book pointed out two truck segments that are bucking trends and seeing larger price declines at auction: the compact crossovers and full-size crossovers, which saw prices drop by 5.7 percent and 5.5 percent, respectively.