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According to a Cars.com blog post, average listing prices of late-model vehicles hit a 2014 low this month, having slid $1,166 since the start of the year.

And here’s the kicker: there weren’t even enough qualifying cars to fill the list of Top 10 Biggest Price Increases.

“For an example of just how much used-car prices have weakened, you only need to look at this month’s list of cars with price increases: There were only nine models that met our inventory criteria,”  wrote Mike Hanley of Cars.com, who authored the blog post that lists both the Top 10 Biggest Price Drops and Top 10 Biggest Price Increases for October.

Cars.com notes that cars must be from the 2011 through 2013 model years and have a minimum of 250 units within Cars.com’s national inventory to make either list.

Overall, model-year 2011 through 2013 cars had an average listing price of $22,071 this month, according to Cars.com. That’s a $283 (1.3-percent) month-over-month slide and a 5-percent decrease from January.

The used vehicle with the greatest listing price decrease (percentage-wise) in October was the Mitsubishi Galant, whose prices were off 4.2 percent month-over-month.

The Kia Sedona had the second steepest drop (3.9 percent), and the remaining eight vehicles in the Top 10 Biggest Price Drops all had price declines between 3.1 percent and 3.4 percent.

Conversely, the Audi A3 sported the largest sequential price increase at 6.0 percent. Interestingly enough, the four leaders of the Top 10 Biggest Price Increases were all Audi models. However, the gains for the A6 (up 2.2 percent), A5 (up 0.8 percent) and the A4 (up 0.7) were less pronounced.

No other model included in the analysis had more than a 0.1-percent increase.

All this is amid an October that Cars.com expects to be the best in seven years in terms of new-vehicle SAAR. Specificially, the company is calling for a new-car SAAR of 16.3 million — the best October reading since 2007.

Cars.com projects 1.28 million new-car sales, which beats year-ago figures by 6.4 percent and bests September by 2.9 percent.

“Lower gas prices helped fueled sales of SUVs and trucks in October,” said Jesse Toprak, chief analyst at Cars.com. “Consumer demand for new vehicles remained very healthy, resulting in the best October, in terms of unit sales, since 2004.

“We expect this robust pace of sales to continue in the months ahead and to finish the year with 16.5 million total units sold," Toprak added.