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3 10.1 to 10.6.2018 Megale justified the new expectations by the economic situation of Argentina, main customer of the Brazilian vehicles, and Mexico, second main buyer. Both countries have decreases in sales and, especially in Argentina, the expectation is that the situation will still remain in the coming months. Since volumes taken to other markets tend to reduce production it also had its numbers revised downwards. But they will still be positive: according to Anfavea, the industry will produce 3 million vehicles, an increase of 11.1% over 2017. There are 21 thousand less vehicles compared to the last estimate released by the entity, in July, which represented growth of 11.9% over last year. By the new projections, the manufacturers of trucks and buses will have a better performance than previously estimated: 120 thousand units produced, against 115.4 thousand. Meanwhile, cars and light commercial vehicles went from 2 million 906 thousand units registered in July to 2 million 880 thousand units. The Brazilian domestic market is in the opposite trend, whose projections have been revised upwards: instead of increasing 11.7%, growth of 13.7%, to 2 million 546 thousand units. In this case, both segments received more optimistic indexes: cars and light commercial vehicles from 11.3% to 13.1% and heavy vehicles from 24.7% to 35%.