Argentina

New car sales in Argentina continued to outperform the used car market in 2011, bolstered mainly by the health of domestic demand amid expansionary monetary and fiscal policies and... 2012-01-20

The Argentine government has made yet another attempt to ease its import bill by increasing taxes on high-end vehicle and motorcycle purchases from non-Mercosur countries from January... 2012-01-10

After the expected 10% year-on-year (y-o-y) growth in the Argentine parts segment in 2011, the country's auto parts trade group Afac expects the segment's growth in 2012 to slow down.... 2011-12-23

Robust local demand and government regulations are pushing motorcycle production in Argentina to record levels of nearly 450,000 units in 2011, up 18.4% compared with 2010 (according... 2011-12-19

Argentina has managed to overtake Mexico in BMI's Risk-Reward Ratings for the autos industry in the Americas this quarter, primarily on the back of continued robust demand from Brazil... 2011-11-28

The ongoing policy of re-elected president Cristina Fernández to force local operations of foreign companies to repatriate their export revenues into Argentina is now being enforced... 2011-11-22

The re-elected Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has revealed plans to start mass production of an indigenous car model, the Auto Popular Argentino (A!PA), by end-2012.... 2011-10-28

A combined US$500mn investment in local tyre production from Italian tyre maker Pirelli comes as a significant boost to the Argentine suppliers' segment and the government's overall... 2011-10-14

Used car sales in Argentina grew by almost 22% year-on-year (y-o-y), to 1.2mn units, between January and August 2011, according to estimates from the country's Automobile Chamber of... 2011-09-26

Difficult regulatory environment for domestic carmakers and concerns about potential production losses as a result of the trade conflict between Brazil and Argentina have resulted in... 2011-08-22