Throughout 2013, trucks held consistently stronger retention rates in the lanes than the car segments.

The tides may be changing, as Black Book’s Ricky Beggs reported cars maintained their value better than trucks for the first time in seven weeks.

In his latest “Beggs on the Used Car Market” video report, Black Book’s editorial director reported the overall price movement of -$43 for cars and -$49 for trucks.

“As the cars average change continues to decline to lower amounts, this is the first time over the past seven weeks that the cars change was less than the trucks. Maybe the trucks’ previous strength is ready for a slight correction,” said Beggs.

The overall market continues to improve, said Beggs, as 36 percent of all price adjustments last week were increases.

“The last time there was this level of increases was back for the week ending May 17, 2013, near the middle of the second quarter strength in market values,” Beggs said.

The $43 drop among the car segments was the lowest declining level seen over the past five weeks.

Some of the best performing car segments by percentage last week were the entry sporty cars with a 0.17 percent drop, and the entry mid-size cars with a 0.18 percent drop.

On the other hand, the segments with the biggest price drops last week were the entry level cars and the premium sporty cars, which both saw a drop of 0.38 percent.

“The current winter weather is sure not creating interest in higher end sporty cars, and the stable gas prices aren’t supporting fuel efficiency demand,” he said.

Trucks saw a slightly higher rate of decline than the cars, but it was still the second lowest level of change of the past five weeks.

The full-size vans and wagons, along with the full-size SUVs and the mid- and full-size pickups were all on the low end of the percentage depreciation for the week, said Beggs.

The largest dollar level declining truck segments were the mid-size crossovers and the compact crossovers at -$82 and -$75, respectively, according to Black Book data.