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4 9.3 to 9.8.2018 S ão Paulo - With vehicle sales performance in August, the best month since January 2015, Anfavea starts to work on a new projection for the Brazilian market in 2018, which is expected to surpass 11.7% of current estimates. The president Antonio Megale affirmed in a news conference on Thursday, 6, that more optimistic numbers are expected to be released in October. “Bigger credit liberation to the customer, with the appetite return from retail banks, and the great volume of launches made by the industry heated the market. There is another factor: that customer who changed cars in 2012, 2013, wants to change again, acquiring more technology, models with more connectivity. All this contributed to the increase of the demand and to the revision of the estimates”. According to the entity, 248 thousand 623 units were sold in August, with a daily average of 10 thousand 810 vehicles, increase of 14.8% over the same period last year and 14.3% compared to July. This year, sales reached 1 million 632 thousand 886 units, an advance of 14.9% over the same period last year - above Anfavea’s projection. According to Megale, the second half of last year was better than the first, and therefore the expectation was that growth in the second semester of this year would be lower due to the comparison basis. So far, however, this has not happened. “Even with the unstable economic scenario because of the elections, August was a very good month and I hope it continues like this, we have nothing to complain about. If there will be a higher number of sales (than our projections) in December, it will be a great surprise.” Even with the good performance in August, Anfavea’s expectation is for a decline in sales in September compared to August due to the number of working days: “I believe that next month we will have a lower sales volume because there will be 19 business days against 23 in August, which directly affects the number of vehicles sold in the month.” Anfavea will revise sales projection upwards Caio Bednarski | caio@autodata.com.br Anfavea figures