Brazil registered record motor vehicle sales for the month of February, rising 3.1% on the month before, according to unnamed industry sources cited by local Estado newswire. Sales of autobiles, light commercial vehicles, trucks and buses totaled 213,312 units, up from 199,366 units in February 2009, according to preliminary industry data cited by the sources. [...]
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Flex-fuel time in Brazil
For the second time this year, light vehicles equipped with flex-fuel technology accounted for 94% of all light vehicle sales in Brazil in August, the highest share recorded since the introduction of flex cars in 2003. The same share was reached for the first time in June of this year. Numbers released by Brazil’s National [...]
Brazil is ‘dancing through the crisis’, reports FT
Financial Times published yesterday a special report about Brazil. In its front page, the correspondent in Sao Paulo Jonathan Wheatley stated that Brazil is ‘dancing through the economic crisis’. The publication starts from a personal focus on the owners of a Brazilian micro-distributor who are investing more in their business in Recife (north-western Brazil), passes through the [...]
Record automobile sales in Brazil
New automobile sales in Brazil soared 21.5 percent in June from May, turning in a record month as a combination of tax breaks, lower prices and improved confidence prompted consumers to flock to showrooms, the national dealers’ association, Fenabrave, said on Thursday. Sales of new cars and trucks also surged 17.2 percent from June 2008, [...]