Brazil’s car market, the fourth largest in the world, has got off to a slower than expected start in 2013, a senior Ford executive said.

Steven Armstrong, Ford’s chief executive in Brazil, declined to provide numbers, but told Reuters if Brazil’s economy grows as much as the government has estimated this year, the local car market should expand about 4% from 2012.

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