GM now produces twice as many LCV as PC in NAFTA
- The demand from American, Canadian and Mexican customers is increasingly focused on light trucks (SUVs, pickups and minivans). In the United States, in the first half of 2017, sales of light trucks were 63% of total sales, in Canada 67%, and in Mexico 65% .
- It is the American manufacturers that sell the most light trucks: GM makes 74% of its sales with this type of vehicle, Ford achieves 76% and Chrysler 86%. These figures mean - compared to the 63% of light truck sales in the United States for all brands - that foreign manufacturers (Japanese, Korean, European) sell far fewer light trucks than their US counterparts and more passenger cars (mostly sedans).
- If we study the production of the GM group between 1950 and 2017, we observe that the production of PCs was in majority until the end of the 90s, but after a continuous decline since that time, only accounts for 34% of GM Group production in 2016 in the NAFTA zone (USA, Canada, Mexico), while LCVs account for 66%. This means that GM now produces twice as much LCV as PC in NAFTA.
- At Ford and Chrysler, the proportion of PC produced in the NAFTA zone reached respectively 25% and 15% in 2016. The production of passenger cars has therefore become a clear minority in the NAFTA zone.
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