13.07.2012 FIAT LEADS OUT THE BRAZILIAN MARKET DURING JUNE

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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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