Fiat
Automóveis continued to lead the Brazilian new vehicle
market during June with a total of 75,240 cars and light
commercial vehicles combined being sold, cementing its
position as the market's best selling carmaker for the
first half of the year. Fiat was three and a half
thousand units ahead of VW in June, the German concern
notching up a total of 71,805 units sold, while third
placed GM was well adrift on 57,593 units. The data for
June was released by Brazilian automotive body
ANFAVEA.
Amongst passenger cars Fiat sold 63,530 units last
month, up a sharp 18.1 percent against the 53,777 units
it shifted during June 2011. However that lagged the
overall market which was up 24.1 percent to 275,929
units and it also undershot VW Group in year-on-year
terms, the German carmaker (which included 206 Audi
division sales in its June total) was up 31.7 percent to
62,418 units. Third placed GM had a much flatter month,
missing the climbing market direction to finish up 8.4
percent at 47,958 units. Further back Ford was up 3.6
percent last month to 29,312 units, Renault was up 14.1
percent to 18,165 units and PSA Peugeot-Citroën was down
23.6 percent to 14,080 units.
In month-on-month terms the Brazilian market enjoyed a
bumper June, up 31.3 percent to 275,929 units. Fiat beat
this rise, up 38.5 percent and almost eighteen thousand
units better than it posted in May while VW also enjoyed
a bounce, following the market up to record a 36.7
percent month-on-month rise.
In month-on-month terms the LCV segment was almost flat
(+1.0 percent) while Fiat was down 14 percent. Meanwhile
GM was up 7.5 percent and VW up 5.8 percent
After the first half of 2012 a total of 1,277,673
passenger cars have been sold in Brazil, flat (+0.3
percent) on the same six month period of last year. With
287,693 sales so far this year Fiat has a two thousand
unit advantage at the top of the passenger car segment,
it thus follows the market in turning in an unchanged
performance (-0.6 percent). VW has 285,741 sales so far
this year and also mirrors the market direction (+0.3
percent) while third placed GM is well adrift with
244,421 sales, a drop of 4.2 percent when compared with
the same period last year.
The segment reserved for LCV vehicles is also relatively
flat for the first half of the year, down 2.9 percent
and ten thousand units to 316,712. Fiat's performance
mirrors that direction, it is the clear market leader in
the LCV segment, driven as usual by the market-leading
Strada pickup, and after six months the Italian carmaker
has 74,077 sales, down 3.9 percent while outperforming
its main rivals as second placed VW is on 52,657 units
and down 4.8 percent and third placed GM is on 46,109
units and down 4.5 percent. There is then a long gap
before Ford appears, it has 29,783 LCV sales for the
year-to-date, and leads out Renault (24,153), Mitsubishi
(23,851) and Hyundai (46,109).
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