In January this year, domestic car sales in the Mexican auto industry rose 9.5 percent compared to the same month of 2011, amounting to 75,297 units, according to the Mexican Association of the Automobile Industry (AMIA) and the Mexican Association of Car Distributors (AMDA). The estimation of the AMDA for the whole of 2012 considers a total of 980,353 units, which means a growth of 8.2 percent with respect to 2011.
Meanwhile, Mexican car and commercial light vehicle production totaled 202,701 units in January this year, rising 1.2 percent year on year, while 82.9 percent of the total production was shipped to export markets.
Mexico's light vehicle and car exports in January amounted to 158,324 units, down 4.1 percent year on year.