Welcome to this week's edition of Black Book Market Insights, with in-depth analysis of used car and truck valuation trends and insights straight from the auction lanes. Click here to download…

Welcome to this week's edition of Black Book Market Insights, with in-depth analysis of used car and truck valuation trends and insights straight from the auction lanes. Click here to download…

Welcome to this week's edition of Black Book Market Insights, with in-depth analysis of used car and truck valuation trends and insights straight from the auction lanes. Click here to download…

Welcome to this week's edition of Black Book Market Insights, with in-depth analysis of used car and truck valuation trends and insights straight from the auction lanes. Click here to download the full…

Black Book, a division of Hearst Business Media that provides new- and used-vehicle valuation services and custom data licensing solutions, today announced a distribution agreement with Gauss Digital Marketing to leverage Bullseye Prospecting as a resource to streamline efficiencies and elevate profit potential in auto dealer customer campaigns.

Powered by Black Book, Bullseye Prospecting is a comprehensive, all-inclusive platform designed to help marketing agencies automate customer…

Black Book, a division of Hearst Business Media that provides new- and used-vehicle valuation services and custom data licensing solutions, unveiled its May residual forecast illustrating the downward pressure on prices that increased supply will continue to have over the next few years.  

Black Book forecast data show that residuals on an average three-year-old vehicle will dip from the current three-year retention of 52.0% in 2016, to 47.8% by 2019. Retention values on a…

Think it's not possible to spend just $25k for an Aston Martin that was originally priced at $130k? It is, and there are several other "super cars" going for cheap these days, as well.

Black Book's Collectible Cars editor, Eric Lawrence, offers up the following bargains on exotic, high-end luxury and overall fun cars. Here is a listing of several cars, what they were originally priced at and what they're now going for at auction.

Here are some cheap…

According to Black Book® data, the average price of a used vehicle for model years 2010-2014 depreciated by just -0.1% during April, signaling what is usually the last strong month of the spring season. 

At the close of 2015, twelve-month truck depreciation was just –9.2% compared with –18.2% for cars. However, the last twelve-months of results show depreciation rising to -14.3% for trucks and -20.6% for cars. More noteworthy, the twelve-month annual depreciation shows the gap between…

Black Book, a division of Hearst Business Media that provides new- and used-vehicle valuation services and custom data licensing solutions, today announced a distribution agreement with HP360 that enables the full-service marketing company to offer Bullseye Prospecting, a turnkey solution for its dealer clients looking to launch more efficient marketing campaigns.

"Bullseye Prospecting allows our team to expand our 360-degree marketing concept throughout our entire network of…

Black Book® today released results of its recent survey taking the pulse of the lender community on the strength of the automotive market, use of data and their outlook for 2016. Black Book Lender Solutions surveyed dozens of automotive lender executives during February, 2016, and found that roughly a third of lenders believe loan balances will plateau in 2016, and interest rates will see a steady climb to 2008 levels. Here are complete results of the survey.

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Welcome to this week's edition of Black Book Market Insights, with in-depth analysis of used car and truck valuation trends and insights straight from the auction lanes. Click here to download the full…

Welcome to this week's edition of Black Book Market Insights, with in-depth analysis of used car and truck valuation trends and insights straight from the auction lanes. Click here to download the full…

Black Book, a division of Hearst Business Media that provides new- and used-vehicle valuation services and custom data licensing solutions, today announced a partnership whereby it becomes the exclusive provider of vehicle valuation data for Auction Simplified, a custom online auction service for individual dealers.

Wholesale vehicle buyers and sellers accessing Auction Simplified dealer auctions receive access to instant vehicle valuation data powered by Black Book. The data will be…

Welcome to this week's edition of Black Book Market Insights, with in-depth analysis of used car and truck valuation trends and insights straight from the auction lanes. …

Welcome to this week's edition of Black Book Market Insights, with in-depth analysis of used car and truck valuation trends and insights straight from the auction lanes. Click here to download the full…

According to Black Book® data, the average price of a used vehicle for model years 2010-2014 declined -0.9% during March. Cars declined -0.4% and trucks declined -1.3% during the month, demonstrating the peak of the spring selling season. 

In a sign that overall year-over-year depreciation continues to accelerate, the first quarter of 2016 saw vehicle depreciation of -3.6%, compared with -0.6% during the same time in 2015.

Full-Size Van led all vehicle segments with the highest…

Welcome to this week's edition of Black Book Market Insights, with in-depth analysis of used car and truck valuation trends and insights straight from the auction lanes. Click here to download the full…

Black Book, a division of Hearst Business Media that provides new- and used-vehicle valuation services and custom data licensing solutions, today announced a distribution agreement with ProMax which will help expand the footprint of the new Bullseye Prospecting turnkey platform for dealer marketing campaigns. 

Under the agreement, ProMax will market the Bullseye Prospecting platform to its network of auto dealers throughout the United States. Powered by data from Black Book, Bullseye…

Welcome to this week's edition of Black Book Market Insights, with in-depth analysis of used car and truck valuation trends and insights straight from the auction lanes. Click here to download the full…

Black Book announces its latest innovation called Bullseye Prospecting, a comprehensive, all-in-one solution designed to help dealers and their marketing agency partners automate customer campaigns. During initial tests Bullseye Prospecting was found to deliver a 30 percent reduction in cost per car sold.

Powered by data from Black Book, Bullseye Prospecting is designed to reduce and consolidate the many different touch points involved in the development and execution of a customer…