With 164,749 units from the eleven terminals in the country, vehicle production closed the first quarter of the year with a significant increase of 38% in relation to the same period in 1999.

Last year, production and sales were dominated by the Brazilian economic situation, a corollary of the Real devaluation by 40% on January 13th.

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In January 1999 vehicle production was half that of January 2000. The state of alert in the industry is due to the big drop in dispatch to concessionaries last month: 19.5% in relation to June of 1999 and 8.9% in relation to last May.

Last month 29,066 units were manufactured and sales to national vehicle concessionaries were a total of 14, 948 vehicles. In June, exports increased by 2.7% in relation to May and had an increase of 56.7% in relation to the same month in 1999, making a total of 13,271 units.

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