Car sales grow 6% in 2012, indicates prior

Automakers ' best year in history, 2012 ended with 3.63 million cars got their plates, about 6% more than the historical performance of 2011 as well, which was the record until then.
The result confirms the effectiveness of the measures of the Government to roll back tax cuts and consumer credit sales trajectory that was declining in the early months of last year.
Only in December, the consumer rush to stores to take advantage of the last days of the maximum reduction in tax rates in the tax on industrialized products (IPI) yielded a volume close to 344 thousand licensed cars in the fourth best performance a month in history.
The volume surpassed 4.4% performance a year before-despite the two working days less than last month's sales-and was 15.7% over November, according to preliminary numbers yet, Oikonomia consulting, specializing in the automotive market. The ACI entity that represents the car dealerships, disclose the consolidated balance sheet at the beginning of the afternoon.
The aid to the automakers announced in Brasilia at the end of may reversed the negative trend that if drew for sales of cars by then. The turning point in the game came with the IPI reduction-half until all of the tax rates, combined with discounts applied by the companies themselves and steps to unlock the consumer credit, as the reduction in tax rates on financial operations (IOF) and releasing compulsory deposits.
In addition to this the impact of releases that have stirred the compact market in the last months of the year, as the HB20, Hyundai, and Onix, General Motors (GM). The daily average of license plates, which had been a pace a little over 12 thousand cars, jumped to a near 16 million units in June.
In December, when the market traditionally heats up with the capabilities of the thirteenth salary and the race of brands to improve the result of the year, Brazilians bought more than 17 thousand cars a day, with peaks of 24 thousand licenses.
As a result, 2012 ended up closing slightly above the growth near 5% that had been stroked into and resales industry estimates, besides consolidating Brazil as the world's fourth largest automotive market. It was also a year in which Brazilian automakers recovered part of the lost ground to imports in 2011. Asian brands as Hyundai, Kia, JAC Motors, and Chery could not hold the positions conquered in the previous year in the face of 30 percentage points extras of the IPI for cars coming out of MERCOSUR or Mexico.
Even so, the domestic industry ended the first 2012 fall in vehicle production in ten years, given the negative performance of manufacturers of trucks and cars on inventories for adjustments made during the first half.
For 2013, the common expectation is that sales lost pace. By June, the Government promises to withdraw gradually the discounts that have lifted the market last year. Analysts also show concern for the effects of anticipation of purchases in 2012 on the results this year.