Car sales retreated 8.1% in November, points Fenabrave

SÃO PAULO-balance sheet released today by Fenabrave, the entity that houses the car dealerships, shows that sales of cars fell 8.1% in October ticket for November. In total, 288.2 million automobiles and light utilities were last month got their plates.
The average daily sales, which stood at 13.6 thousand cars in October, rose to 14.4 thousand units in November. But the last month closed in the red for calendar account commercially shorter, with three working days less than sale — not to mention the holiday the day of black consciousness, which happened in some of the largest markets in the country, such as São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
In comparison with November 2012, last month's sales sagged 2.95%. Thus, the sector has accentuated the YTD fall to 1.5% at the end of November. Until October, the accumulated fall was 1.4%.
Taking into account developments in the daily sales rate, made a positive evaluation of the Fenabrave result last month. "If we'd had 22 working days in both months, the market would have grown up 3.07%," says, in a statement, the President of the entity, Francis Marion.
The lifting of the Fenabrave shows that sales of trucks, from 11.7 million units last month, fell 13.5% in comparison with October and 6.9% in relation to the volume of a year earlier. Bus sales already showed 5% drop compared to October, for 3 thousand units. In comparison with November 2012, however, there was high of 38.7% in the segment of buses.