Production decreased a little in July but sales in, and exports from, Venezuela increased year-on-year last month according to automakers’ trade group Cavenez.
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Automakers sold 25,625 vehicles at home last month, up 27.6% on the 20,081 units in July 2005.
Exports grew 175.8% from 675 units shipped a year ago to 1,862 vehicles last month.
Production of 14,357 vehicles was off 0.5% and was due to reduced home market share for locally-made vehicles.
In July, Venezuelan-built vehicles accounted for 50.4% of the overall sales compared with 62% a year previously.
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By GlobalDataBut data is all positive in the cumulative results for the seven months of 2006 to date. Production rose 1.3% to 91,213 vehicles and home market sales soared 41.2% to 166,142 units. Exports increased 114.2% to 10,426 vehicles.
Year to date, the Venezuelan market was led by General Motors with 44,882 vehicles sold and market share of 27%. Ford was second (31,195; 18.8%) and Toyota de Venezuela, which includes the Toyota and Daihatsu brands, was third (23,724; 14.3%).
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