christian garcia
January 03, 2023
The new vehicle market closes the year with 813,396 units sold, which implies that the sector’s forecasts are not finally met. This is how 2022 has gone…
2022 is already history, and like every year at this point, it is time to bring together figures and make a drawing for the full year to find out how the year has gone. new vehicle market in our country. The manufacturers’ association, Anfac, has given us the annual x-ray in which it is clearly read that during the last 12 months 5.4% fewer cars were sold than in 2021. The total reaches 813,396 units, but still This is a number that is still far from what the sector had forecast months before.
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December closed with a 14.1% drop, largely due to difficulties in the transport of vehicles to dealershipswhich translates into just under 74,000 sales during the weekdays of the month.
Individuals stay close to 2021 records
If we look at the channels, economic conditions have weighed down sales to individuals with a slight drop of 1.7% in the total for 2022, with 366,364 units delivered. For its part, the business channel, despite the drop recorded in December, managed to close the year with an increase of 4.1% and 348,144 registrations. As for the rental channel, it is the most affected with a decrease of 35.1% and 98,888 registrations.
Average CO emissions2 of passenger cars sold throughout the cycle fell by 3.1% compared to the previous year, with a average of 120.4 g CO2 / km.
«This has been a year in which the market has once again fallen short of forecasts. The semiconductor crisis was deeply aggravated by exogenous factors such as the war in Ukraine or the lockdowns due to the Covid Zero policy in China. In addition to the economic crisis with rising energy prices, inflation and interest rates, the perfect storm has been completed with these bottlenecks in maritime and road transport. All this means that 2022 falls short of the ideal again and leaves us with an unfavorable scenario for 2023 where, being cautious, we should tackle the assault on the border of 900,000 units. Everything will depend on whether the conflict in Ukraine ends and the logistics chain is normalized…”, says Félix García, Anfac Communications Director.
