The November certified pre-owned sales total fell more than 4 percent from year-ago figures, according to Autodata Corp., but year-to-date sales are moving nearly 9 percent higher with 2.33 million CPO sales through 11 months.

There were 184,080 CPO sales in November, which was off 4.7 percent year-over-year and down 13.8 percent month-over-month, Autodata said in a sales recap Wednesday.

Granted, November had two fewer selling days (at 23) than the same month a year ago, and five fewer selling days than October, the firm noted.

With that, the month’s daily selling rate (8,003) beat that of November 2014 (7,724) and October of this year (7,629).

As for the year-to-date sales tally, that’s up 8.7 percent year-over-year.

Brand-by-brand results

Before industry-wide numbers were released, several individual programs shared their sales for the month. 

Kia had its best November ever with 4,513 CPO sales, a 5.91-percent year-over-year improvement.

Through 11 months, Kia has sold 58,451 certified vehicles for a 31.3-percent gain. 

BMW reported 8,388 CPO sales for the month (down 4.9 percent) and 104,727 CPO sales year-to-date (up 12.6 percent). MINI had 812 CPO sales in November (up 3.8 percent) and is at 10,640 sales year-to-date (up 24.2 percent). 

Mercedes-Benz  sold 9,406 certified vehicles in November, pushing the year-to-date figure to 108,635, which is 0.8 percent ahead of the pace through November 2014. 

At Ford, its CPO programs combined for 22,371 sales in November, compared to 22,552 in November 2014. Through 11 months, they have sold 270,194 CPO units, against 249,095 certified sales in the year-ago period.

Mazda sold 2,631 CPO cars last month, versus 3,593 certified sales a year ago. Year-to-date sales have reached 36,019, down from 39,484 through November 2014.

Volkswagen had 5,224 certified sales in November (down 33.3 percent year-over-year), and its year-to-date sum is at 81,504 CPO sales (down 3.7 percent).

Volvo moved 1,351 CPO units for the month, compared to 1,107 in November 2014. Through 11 months, there have been 18,354 certified Volvo sales, up from 12,881 during the year-ago period.  

Hyundai sold 6,671 certified vehicles in November (down 18 percent) and has moved 86,627 CPO vehicles year-to-date (down 1.3 percent).