He Brazilian car market It began 2025 with positive numbers, a fact that is important for Argentine automakers that allocate to that market most of its production.
This is the best result in the last five years, according to a report by the National Federation of Distributors of Automotive Vehicles (Fenabrave).
The car sales rise in Brazil and the benefit for Argentina’s economy
This occurs in the middle of an uncertain exchange scenario, with a strong devaluation of the real in recent months, but that for a few days it seems to have reversed that trend.
The sales volume, measured by the issuance of licenses and that includes cars, light commercials, buses and trucks, was not so high for the month since January since 2020 (193,500 units), before the Covid-19 pandemic Brazil, the eighth largest automotive industry in the world.
Despite the increase with respect to January last year, sales of the first month of 2025 fell 33.49% compared to last December (257,430 units), month in which traditionally commercialization is much higher.
2024 was marked by strong sales growth in the second half of the year, which promoted vehicle production at a level higher than initially planned.
When comparing the second semester with the first half of the year, production grew by 26.2%, patents 32% and exports 44.2%.
“Normally the second semester is harder, but in 20124 we have had a second fantastic semester, the best of the last ten years, after a start of the year with some problems, such as strikes in public bodies, floods in Rio Grande do Sul, inter alia. As a result, Brazil was the one that grew the most among the main markets in the world. ”Said the president Márcio de Lima Leite.
From June there was a significant increase in the rate of sales of vehicles, reaching an average of 13.3 thousand units per day in November, the highest in 10 years.
Thus, 2024 should closed with 2,650,000 vehicles registered, an increase of 15% compared to 2023. About 130 thousand units were missing to exceed the total of 2019, the last year before the pandemic.
In the heavy segment, trucks had excellent performance, with an estimated increase of 15%, while buses are expected to close with a growth of 8.5%.
By 2025, Anfavea projected sales of 2,802,000 vehicles, an increase of 5.6% compared to 2024
In the division due to large segments, a 5.8% increase for cars and light commercial vehicles, and 2.1% for heavy vehicles is expected.
The growth of vehicle sales in January 2025 is a reflection of a broader recovery of the Brazilian market and a good sign for the government of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Although the number of units sold in this first month of the year does not match the figures of December (a traditionally stronger month), the data is significant, since it is the best recorded for the month of January since 2020, when Brazil, when Brazil, Like the rest of the world, he faced the impact of Covid-19 pandemic.
Source: Ambito
