Sale of vehicles has dropped 13.4%

Sales of new vehicles in the first half of the month fell 13.4% as compared to the same period in June and 2.66% in comparison with the first half of July 2012. Including trucks and buses, were marketed 141.3 thousand units by Friday.
Only in cars and light commercials were 133.7 thousand units, down 13.9% compared to the same period of last month and 4.4 percent compared to a year ago, according to partial data.
Year to date, total sales add up to 1.94 million units, 3.2% more than in the same period last year. Despite the fall in the first 15 days, the industry predicts sales for the month of 355 thousand vehicles, compared with 318 thousand in June and 364.2 thousand in July 2012.
The automotive industry began July with stocks of 415.3 thousand vehicles, equivalent to 39 days of sales. In the previous month, factories and resales accounted 385.3 thousand cars in the courtyards, sufficient for 36 days.
Collective holiday. At least one automaker, General Motors, will give collective vacations to 750 employees of the production line of the Classic model, in São José dos Campos (SP), ' in order to adjust their production to market demand, according to the company. They will be at home to 22 to August 4.
Volkswagen also started yesterday 10 days period of collective vacations to 1.7 thousand employees of the factory in São Bernardo do Campo (SP), but, according to the ABC metal workers Union the reason is an adjustment in the production line of pickup sloop. The company confirms the parade, but only says that it is ' technical adjustments on the Assembly line in Anchieta unit '.
According to the syndicate of the metalurgists of Betim (MG) Fiat came to consider a halt of 10 days this month, but then opted for outages. Yesterday and today the mining factory is stopped because of local holiday.
' The pace of sales has slowed, there are many offers and stocks are high ', confirms the ADK Automotive consultant, Paulo Roberto Garbossa.
He remembers even if the basis for comparison starts to get tighter because, unlike the first half of 2012, throughout the second half of the year the market operated with the benefit of cutting the tax on industrialized products (IPI).
Projections. The National Association of Automotive vehicle manufacturers (Anfavea) designs for the year growth of 3.5% to 4.5% in sales, to record of almost 3.9 million units. Until may, the sector grew at a rate of 8% in accumulated, but in June dropped to 4.8% and is currently at 3.2%.