Sporty Cars See Larger Declines As Summer Ends
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This week’s Black Book Market Insights report shows how car segments, particularly Sporty Cars, continue to face larger depreciation compared with trucks. The report spotlights Mid-Size Cars, which are showing falling retention rates after maintaining a similar retention over the previous four years.
“The Sporty Car segment declined the most, following typical seasonal patterns as summer draws to a close. The car segments continue to experience a steeper decline in values in comparison to pickups and SUVs,” said Anil Goyal, Senior Vice President of Automotive Valuation and Analytics.
- Volume weighted, overall car segment values decreased by 0.77% last week, slightly higher than the depreciation rate of 0.69% seen in the previous four weeks.
- Sporty Car, Full-Size Car, Luxury Car and Sub-Compact Car segments declined the most by 1.45%, 0.96%, 0.80% and 0.80%, respectively.
- Volume-weighted, overall truck segment (including pickup, SUVs and vans) values decreased by 0.44% last week. This is similar to the depreciation rate of 0.42% seen in the previous four weeks.
- Compact Van declined the most by 1.98%. On the other hand, Full-Size Van continued to perform better, depreciating by only 0.52%.
Mid-Size Car Retention Rate Trend
(Black Book Wholesale Average (% of MSRP) in September, at Model Year plus two years)
The chart above shows that the retention rates of mid-size cars have remained steady in the past few years until this year when they declined by 4 percentage points. For 2013 MY, the retention in September 2015 for Mid-Size Car was 53%. In comparison, for 2014 MY, the retention in September 2016 has dropped to 49%.