During what was the second-best month in the history of the certified pre-owned market, several automakers had reason to celebrate as they recorded historically high CPO sales in June.

In fact, Mini had its best-ever month for CPO sales (292 units sold), according to Autodata Corp., and Honda reports that its flagship division achieved an all-time record for certified sales, as well.

Overall,  there were 162,165 certified units sold throughout the industry in June, Autodata reports, representing an 8.9-percent increase from a year ago. Based on selling days – June 2012 had 27; June 2011 had 26 — the daily selling rate climbed 4.9 percent. Through June, there have been 917,004 certified vehicles sold, compared to 868,358 CPO sales in the first half of 2011.

Several automakers shared with Auto Remarketing how their respecitve brands fared during August, starting with Honda and Acura.

There were 22,763 certified Honda units sold in June (up 14.8 percent year-over-year), pushing year-to-date sales to 122,673 units (up 7.3 percent). The Acura division notched 3,983 CPO sales (down 2.5 percent) for the month, with first-half sales coming at 21,745 units (down 14.4 percent).

“For Honda, June was our all-time best CPO sales month ever — with strong remaining inventory. In fact, we are trending to exceed our 2011 year-end total, our best year ever,” said American Honda’s Brian Butts, who recently took over for the retiring Dan Crowe.

“Our partnership with Honda Financial Services to offer 1.9 percent, and 2.9 percent financing has resulted in increased certified traffic and the results have shown,” he added.

Butts continued: “For June, Acura reported its second best pre-owned month in 2012 and continues to exceed our monthly objective. Our 1.9-percent and 2.9-percentfinancing has helped to drive traffic to our dealers.”

Meanwhile, Volkswagen had its best-ever June and hit its highest first-half sales in the program’s history. What’s more, the first two quarters was the best six-month stretch VW has ever had in CPO, according to the automaker.

Specifically, VW moved 7,158 certified units for the month, compared to 6,597 in June 2011. There were 43,513 VW certified sales in the first six months of the year, versus 37,495 in the same period of last year.

Likewise, Toyota had its hottest June on record for CPO sales, with 28,724 units sold (up 5 percent year-over-year). It moved 163,960 certified vehicles in the first half of the year, compared to 167,114 CPO sales in the same period of 2011.

Calling June a “good month for TCUV business” and noting the records, Toyota’s Brad Heagy further pointed out, “Inventory levels also remain healthy as we progress through the summer.”

Over at Hyundai, the brand also had a best-ever June with 6,302 CPO sales, which also marked the brand’s second highest total of any month (June or otherwise).

This was up from 4,247 CPO sales in June 2011.

Hyundai sold 33,165 certified units in the first half of 2012, compared to 19,885 CPO sales in the opening half of 2011.

At BMW, dealers sold 6,296 CPO vehicles, compared to 6,587 in June 2011. First-half certified sales came in at 37,549 units, down from 44,778 in the same period of 2011.

Commenting on the month, Steve Saward, department head of pre-owned sales and corporate fleet at BMW of North America, said that “the pre-owned business — both certified and non-certified — continued at a robust pace during June.

“While supplies remain tight, particularly in the 2009 and 2010 model years that represent the overwhelming majority of our off lease cars, it appears that used car prices have definitely peaked, and come off slightly from their highs,” said Saward.

“Consumers continue to be price and payment sensitive, and an attractive interest rate, or some other form of enticement, remains crucial to closing the deal.
Fortunately, the strong residual values are supporting our efforts to bring current customers back into the store,” he continued.

“Combined with a comprehensive portfolio of new car offers, these strong values are supporting our efforts to maintain ales momentum as we go into the summer vacation period,” Saward added. “Availability of off lease models will remain restricted for the foreseeable future, with little prolonged, significant improvement likely until the second half of 2013.”

Next up was Kia, which sold 1,650 certified units during the month, compared to 675 CPO sales in June 2011. Through June, it has moved 8,643 units for a 119.8-percent gain.

“With setting an all-time June new retail sales month of 51,326 units and all-time first half of the year January–June sales record of 288,707 units, we are very pleased to see the Kia CPO sales match the continued growth that our new-car sales have seen this year, proving that a strong CPO program will add value to your new-car sales as you grow the overall brand,” said David Carp, director of fleet & remarketing at Kia Motors America.

“We look forward to even stronger growth as our off-leased portfolio begins to mature with Kia Motors Finance in Q4 of 2012,” he added.

Among domestic automakers, General Motors sold 24,095 certified units among its Chevrolet, Buick and GMC brands in June and 1,304 Cadillac CPO units.

First-half sales for Chevrolet/Buick/GMC reached 143,125 units, with Cadillac hitting 8,721 sales.

At Ford, its brands combined to sell 15,632 CPO vehicles (up 29.4 percent) in June, leading to first-half results of 82,199 certified sales (up 29.1 percent).

By brand, Lincoln had 1,680 certified sales in June (up 25.1 percent), and there were 13,952 Ford/Mercury CPO sales (up 29.9 percent).

Meanwhile, Chrysler sold 10,189 CPO vehicles in June (up 2.5 percent) and notched first-half sales of 58,625 units (up 2.4 percent). By division, Dodge led the way in June with 5,029 CPO sales in June (up 44.8 percent), followed by Jeep with 3,337 certified sales (down 5.3 percent). The Chrysler division’s CPO sales came in at 1,823 units, down 38.1 percent.

(There were 18 Fiat CPO sales in June, which were not included in the overall Chrysler tally).

Next up, Lexus sold 5,954 certified units for the month (compared to 5,878 in June 2011) and moved 34,926 in the year’s first half (down from 35,493 in the year-ago time frame).

Mercedes-Benz increased its CPO sales 2.9 percent for June at 6,593 units sold. Its year-to-date total reached 39,419 sales (down 1.1 percent).

At Nissan, the namesake brand posted 9,822 certified sales (up 27.7 percent) for the month, and Infiniti sold 1,071 CPO vehicles (down 8.9 percent).

Year-to-date, Nissan has climbed 22.8 percent with 52,506 CPO sales, and Infiniti is up 4.8 percent at 6,629 certified sales.

Audi’s CPO sales were at 3,344 units in June, versus 3,636 sales a year ago. First-half certified sales totaled 18,339 units, down from 18,842 CPO vehicles sold in the opening six months of 2011.

Volvo dealers moved 1,059 CPO vehicles for the month (down 3.8 percent) with year-to-date totals at 5,934 (down 5.5 percent). Subaru’s certified sales for June were reported at 2,150 units (up 9.6 percent), and six-month sales hit 11,830 units (down 1.3 percent).

Mazda sold 2,011 certified vehicles in June, compared to 1,580 in June 2011. Six-month sales came in at 11,502 units, compared to 8,959 in the same period of 2011.

Land Rover sold 596 CPO vehicles in June (up from 152 a year ago), pushing its year-to-date volume to 3,239 sales (up 200 percent). Jaguar posted 261 certified sales for the month (down 4 percent).

Porsche moved 646 of its Approved Certified Pre-Owned vehicles in June. Through six months of 2012, CPO sales totaled 4,669 units, compared to 4,232 CPO sales in the 2011 period.

Mini sold 292 certified vehicles in June, up from 168 a year ago, while Maserati’s CPO sales climbed from 30 to 36.

CPO sales for Mitsubishi were at 32 vehicles for the month, and Bentley was estimated to have sold 30.