CARY, N.C. -

Volvo continued its 2015 surge in the certified pre-owned market with August sales that were nearly 38 percent stronger than last year’s. And it will likely beat the 2014 grand total before the third quarter is even over.

The automaker reported that its dealers moved 1,871 CPO vehicles last month, up from 1,359 CPO sales in August 2014.

This follows year-over-year sales spikes of 41.3 percent in July, 53.5 percent in June and 40.9 percent in May. The rest of the year shows much of the same for Volvo, including two straight months (January and February) where CPO sales climbed more than 58 percent.

Through eight months, Volvo has sold 13,541 certified vehicles, which is 44.4 percent ahead of last year’s pace.

To put that in perspective, if Volvo sells just 601 CPO vehicles in September, it will have beaten the 2014 full-year total in just nine months.

Moving to one of the Big 3 reporting CPO sales already, Ford’s brands combined to sell 24,926 certified vehicles in August, compared to 24,977 CPO sales a year ago.

Through eight months, year-to-date CPO sales for Ford are at 195,740, up from 179,935 in the same period of 2014.

Volkswagen saw its certified sales dip 1.2 percent year-over-year, but the company reported its 18th straight month of CPO sales north of 7,000.

Its 8,660 CPO sales in August put the year-to-date tally at 64,314 units, which beats last year’s pace by 3.9 percent.

Audi sold 4,441 certified vehicles in August. 

Editor's Note: Stay tuned to Auto Remarketing for more certiifed pre-owned sales results as they come in. If you would like to share CPO results with AR, email editor Joe Overby at joverby@autoremarketing.com.