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After the historic first month of the year and its great contrast in figures with the last of the previous year, February sales figures for automobiles and light and heavy commercial vehiclesrebalances the statistics and gives projections for the coming months.
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According to the report published by Acara (Automobile Dealers Association of the Argentine Republic)in February 30,121 units were patented, which is 40.2% less than in January and 3.5% more than in February 2022. Compared to the previous month, the drop is more significant than last year at the same period.
In cumulative values for the first two months of the year, patents already total 80,486 unitsthis means 10.8% more than in 2022, when the second month closed with total sales of 72,609 vehicles.
In the area of trademarks, Toyota continues to be the leader adding up all segmentswith 5,931 units in February and 16,272 between the two months of 2023. It does this with the sum of six models among the 20 bestsellers, with the Hilux pickup at number 1 and the Etios compact at number 2, both in very similar volumes, but it also adds the patenting of Corolla Cross, Yaris, Corolla and SW4.
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Fiat is second in terms of total sales with 4,574 vehicles, but almost all are thanks to the excellent performance of Cronos, the best-selling car on the market, of which 4,021 units were patented in the second month of the year. The Toro compact pickup is the only Fiat model to make the top 30 best-selling models with 198 vehicles and the Pulse is third with 112 in February.
Peugeot was again the third manufacturerand although it shares with Fiat being part of the Stellantis Group and added together they would be leaders, for the needs of the purchase of a car, these data should not be very influential for the decision of the consumers. In February, 3,323 units were patented, some 1,100 vehicles less than in January, but allowed him to be third again ahead of Volkswagen and Ford, that they left them in fifth place in January of this year. The merit of Peugeot, like Fiat, is that everything the figures depend on the sales of the 208the second most commercialized model on the current market behind its cousin “Cronos”.
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The case of Volkswagen is the most striking. With a good month of January thanks to the pick up Amarok was the third model in the total of all sales for the first month, even beat the “queen” Hilux In the first quarter, the return to standard values allowed it to be the third manufacturer in the two months, but to fall to fourth place in February. Third place, again, is achieved with the combination of several productssince in addition to Amarok, the terminal of German origin has other models of good performance on the market such as Taos and Polo among the top 20 sales.
In pickups, the Toyota Hilux was the top seller in February with 1,880 units, the Amarok was second with 1,623, the Ford Ranger third with 1,521, the Nissan Frontier was fourth with 624 sales and the compact Ford Maverick fifth with 270 units. In the total for the year, the fight is very close in the top three, since Hilux sold 4,784 vehicles, Amarok 4,596 and Ranger 4,274 vehicles.
In the section of motorcycles, ACARA’s specialty division reported 35,341 units, a 3.3% better compared to February 2022 while 34,222 patents had been filed. In the two months combined, 76,503 units were registered, 13% more than in the same period of 2022, in which 67,719 vehicles were reached.
in brands, Honda continues to dominate with 7,930 sales, followed by Motomel with 5,124 and corven with 4,388. The three brands are also the ones that dominate the table of cumulative sales for 2023 in these same positions, with Honda and its 17,612 units, Motomel with 10,833 and Corven with 8,741.
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