{"id":5058,"date":"2024-09-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/superpdr.com\/brazilian-auto-production-in-august-hit-its-highest-level-in-five-years-and-sales-also-rose-14-3-year-on-year\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T11:34:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T03:34:51","slug":"brazilian-auto-production-in-august-hit-its-highest-level-in-five-years-and-sales-also-rose-14-3-year-on-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/superpdr.com\/it\/news\/brazilian-auto-production-in-august-hit-its-hi-80708793.html","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian Auto Production in August Hit Its Highest Level in Five Years, And Sales Also Rose 14.3% Year-on-year"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0In August this year, Brazil&#8217;s automobile production stood at 259,613 vehicles, up 14.4% from the same month last year and up 5.2% from 246,721 in July, making it the highest monthly automobile production in the country since October 2019, according to data from the Brazilian Automobile Manufacturers Association (Anfavea).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Anfavea announced that in August of this year, Brazilian vehicle sales (including passenger cars, light commercial vehicles, trucks and buses) increased by 14.3% year-on-year and decreased by 1.6% year-on-year to 237,382 units, including 171,021 passenger cars, 52,429 light commercial vehicles, 11,526 trucks and 2,406 buses.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 In terms of August passenger car brand sales in Brazil, Stellantis&#8217; brands Fiat, Jeep, Dodge and Chrysler sold 35,490 units (20.8% market share), Volkswagen sold 30,934 units (18.1%), General Motors sold 23,498 units (13.7%), Hyundai sold 16,656 units (9.7%), while Toyota (including Lexus) sold 14,245 units (8.3%).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0By model, the Volkswagen Polo was the best-selling passenger car in Brazil in August with 14,274 units sold; followed by the Chevrolet Onix with 9,018 units, then the Fiat Argo with 7,768 units, the Volkswagen T-Cross with 7,118, the Hyundai HB20 with 7,103, the Chevrolet Tracker with 6,768, the Volkswagen T-Cross with 6,660, the Hyundai HB20 with 6,660, the Chevrolet HB20 with 6,660 and the Chevrolet Tracker with 6,660. Tracker at 6,416; and the Hyundai Creta at 5,962.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 In terms of fuel type, diesel sales in Brazil rose 11.9 percent year-on-year to 21,408 units (9.6 percent) in August this year; gasoline sales jumped 57.6 percent year-on-year to 8,056 units (3.6 percent); hybrid sales edged down 8.1 percent year-on-year to 4,210 units (1.9 percent); and plug-in hybrid sales jumped 48.2 percent year-on-year to 5,341 units to 5,341 units (2.4% share); while sales of electric vehicles jumped 336.6% year-on-year to 5,095 units (2.3% share); and sales of other-fueled vehicles rose 9.8% year-on-year to 179,340 units (80.3% market share).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 In August this year, Brazil&#8217;s automobile exports (including passenger cars, light commercial vehicles, trucks and buses) were 38,225 units, down slightly by 2.2% year-on-year, but up by 10.6% compared with 34,548 units in the same month last year; Brazil&#8217;s automobile imports (including passenger cars, light commercial vehicles, trucks and buses) were up by 20.1% year-on-year, down slightly by 1.6% to 40,625 units.<\/p>\n<\/article>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0In August this year, Brazil&#8217;s automobile production stood at 259,613 vehicles, up 14.4% from the same month last year and up 5.2% from 246,721 in July, making it the highest monthly automobile production in the country since October 2019, according to data from the Brazilian Automobile Manufacturers Association [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newslist-136510-1"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/superpdr.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/superpdr.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/superpdr.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superpdr.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superpdr.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/superpdr.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9342,"href":"https:\/\/superpdr.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5058\/revisions\/9342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superpdr.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/superpdr.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superpdr.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superpdr.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}