Price declines were seen across a variety of segments last week, but what’s notable is that car prices as a whole fell slightly less than truck prices — a deviation from recent trends.

Volume weighted, overall car segment prices from model years 2008-2014 decreased by 0.46 percent last week, which was better than the depreciation rate of 0.69 percent seen in the previous four weeks and better than the overall depreciation for trucks, which at 0.53 percent was higher than the depreciation rate of 0.41 percent seen in the previous four week.

“There were broader declines in the market last week across a variety of segments, including luxury cars, subcompact cars, subcompact crossovers and full-size pickups,” Anil Goyal, senior vice president of automotive valuation and analytics for Black Book, said in the most recent Market Insights report.

Luxury, near-luxury and full-size cars declined the most in the car segment at 0.67 percent, 0.63 percent and 0.64 percent, respectively.

Among trucks, compact vans continued to decline higher than average at 1.12 percent last week. Subcompact crossover, full-size pickup and compact luxury crossovers/SUVs also saw higher declines at 1.21 percent, 0.81 percent and 0.75 percent, respectively.

Looking at the last three months, subcompact segments showed the worst depreciation: 8.8 percent for subcompact crossovers, 8.5 percent for subcompact luxury CUVs and 8.4 percent for subcompact cars. Full-size pickups saw the lowest three-month depreciation at 1.8 percent, followed closely by small pickups at 2.0 percent.

View from the lanes

Black Book editors and personnel attend more than 60 auction throughout the U.S. each week. A lane watcher in Minnesota reported a below-normal rate of consignment and attendance last week, while one in Texas noted that sales were down slightly — even for trucks.

An auction spotter in California, however, noted that trucks were in high demand, while one in Minnesota reported that four-wheel drive trucks and SUVs were leading demand.

A Black Book rep in Pennsylvania said fewer lanes than normal were running at that location.

In Michigan, however, “Bidding was active and prices were on the strong side today.”