Brazil Production By Brand : 2015-16

The car industry is a barometer of the economic condition of a country. Because most cars sold in Brazil are locally made, the production volumes speak to us regarding this. In the case of Brazil years of growth culminating in a high of over 3.7 million vehicles in 2013 has dwindled since then to under 2.2 million in 2016. Therefore, the economy have been on a downward slope of late.

Cars: VW is the largest producer in this area and has been since it rose to number one in 2004. It has been top for most of the industry's history. GM goes back to around 1960 and is currently second. Fiat commence manufacturing cars in 1976 and has been a major player ever since.  Ford started up with car production in 1967 and now sits fourth.

Asian brands arrived only recently and are trying to make up for that. Toyota has made it up to fifth but newcomer Hyundai (arrived in 2010) was down. Renault has made a come back after a couple of indifferent years.

15	16	Brand	2016	%	+/-		2015	%	+/-
1	1	VW	277,426	15.6	-20%		347,133	17.2	-31%
3	2	GM	272,295	15.3	-8%		296,761	14.7	-36%
2	3	Fiat	246,847	13.9	-27%		339,147	16.8	-26%
4	4	Ford	209,570	11.8	-8%		227,749	11.3	-8%
6	5	Toyota	177,037	9.9	4%		170,569	8.5	6%
7	6	Renault	164,324	9.2	2%		160,496	8.0	-20%
5	7	Hyundai	162,568	9.1	-16%		193,755	9.6	-7%
8	8	Honda	120,585	6.8	-19%		148,074	7.3	16%
9	9	PSA	82,259	4.6	24%		66,481	3.3	-24%
10	10	Nissan	40,544	2.3	-2%		41,512	2.1	76%
11	11	Mitsubishi	9,115	0.5	-42%		15,754	0.8	-37%
		Others	17,040	1.0			10,400	0.5
		Total	1,779,610		-12%		2,017,831		-19%

Commercial: Fiat is the main producer in this sector, a third of the total testifies to that. GM, VW and Renault follow in that order.

15	16	Brand	2016	%	+/-		2015	%	+/-
1	1	Fiat	134,777	34.1	-8%		146,141	33.5	-32%
3	2	GM	62,152	15.7	-4%		65,018	14.9	-46%
2	3	VW	47,460	12.0	-37%		75,397	17.3	-22%
5	4	Renault	40,567	10.3	171%		14,963	3.4	-23%
4	5	MAN	19,360	4.9	-17%		23,288	5.3	-48%
7	6	Scania	13,595	3.4	4%		13,072	3.0	-41%
6	7	Mitsubishi	10,458	2.6	-23%		13,643	3.1	-34%
8	8	Ford	9,949	2.5	-23%		12,848	2.9	-42%
9	9	Volvo Truck	9,679	2.4	6%		9,136	2.1	-61%
10	10	Hyundai	3,805	1.0	-36%		5,918	1.4	-83%
11	11	Nissan	3,209	0.8	-42%		5,549	1.3	-39%
12	12	PSA	2,265	0.6	-30%		3,231	0.7	-15%
13	13	Agrale	2,001	0.5	-21%		2,530	0.6	-58%
14	14	DAF	721	0.2	123%		323	0.1	-28%
		Others	35,676	9.0			44,734	10.3
		Total	395,674		-9%		435,791		-35%

The total is down 11% but expect to see that change for the better in 2017. The number of 'Others' is for manufacturers that either don't belong to the association supplying the data or those that wish for the numbers not to be published. 

Gr Total

2,175,284

-11%

2,453,622

-23%

Data source: ANFAVEA.