Abeifa importers sold just 2.3 thousand vehicles in October

By Redação AutoIndústria | Translated by Jorge Meditsch

Sales from companies affiliated with Abeifa, Associação Brasileira de Empresas Importadoras e Fabricantes de Veículos Automotores, keep going up and down month to month. In October, they sold only 2.3 thousand automobiles and light commercial vehicles.

The result represents a 33.6% decline compared to September – 2022 best month – but is 44.3% better than in the same month last year, when the pandemic and the lack of supplies were still impacting the market strongly.

“We hoped the sales recovery that happened in September could be even more significant in October. Unfortunately, it did not happen. Due to the lack of products caused by the supply instability in our headquarters, we could not meet the repressed Brazilian market demand”, says João Henrique Garbin de Oliveira, Abeifa’s president.

With October numbers, the eleven importers associated with the organization went over 17 thousand licensed imported vehicles and a 20.5% fall compared to the same period in 2021, a very weak year.

Year to date, the numbers indicate that the sector may have its worst result in 15 years. In 2007, Abeifa’s affiliates sold only 12.5 thousand vehicles. Even in 2020, with the health measures that took to dealerships into lockdown for weeks, the sector sold 27.4 thousand vehicles.