A view shows traffic during evening rush hour near Beijing’s Central Business District (CBD), China April 15, 2022. Picture taken April 15, 2022. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang

BEIJING, Dec 8 (Reuters) - China's car sales dropped 8.5% in November from a year earlier, the second straight monthly decline, as the boost from a front-loading of purchases faded due to dwindling government subsidies.

Car sales totalled 2.24 million vehicles last month, following a 0.8% slide in October, data from the China Passenger Car Association showed on Monday.

(Reporting by Qiaoyi Li, Zhang Yan and Brenda Goh)