Mexico LV Sales Third Best for November

Thanks to an economic uptick and an extra selling day, Mexico light-vehicle sales reached 100,334 units in November, the third-best tally for the month in history.

At an average daily selling rate of 3,859, November car and light-truck deliveries were 5.2% ahead of the 3,669-a-day pace, on volume of 91,716 units, in November 2012, in which there were 25 selling days.

The all-time high for the month was 104,489, or 4,180 daily, in 2000, followed by sales of 101,494 LVs in 2006, an average of 4,229 daily in a month with just 24 selling days.

November also marked the industry’s best showing of the year, the first time in 2013 that sales breeched the 100,000 mark and far exceeded the monthly average of 84,222 for January-October, and put the market on course to end the year just shy of 1.1 million units.

Car sales, at a third-best November tally of 63,404 units, far outpaced the month’s 36,930 light-truck deliveries that ran well behind the record 44,111 units sold in 2007.

Once again, Asian makes accounted for the strongest November gains, up 14.4% from the prior year, compared with a 6.3% increase for European bands and a 5.3% decline for the Detroit Three auto makers.

For the year so far, Nissan/Infiniti holds a commanding lead with sales totaling 235,718 units, 8.4% ahead of like-2012, accounting for 25% of the 942,553 LVs sold in January-November. General Motors’ 178,723 units put it solidly in secondly place, followed by Volkswagen/Audi’s 168,900 units. GM sales represented an 8.6% gain over like-2012, while VW/Audi deliveries were up 20.8%.

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