In the first half of 2021, the NAFTA production remains down 20% compared to 2019
- American automobile production (North America and South America) reached a volume of 8,237,621 units (passenger car – PCs & light utility vehicles - LUVs) in the first half of 2021. This figure represents an increase of 30.9% compared to in the first half of 2020, but a decrease of 20.3% compared to the first half of 2019 and a decrease of 22% compared to the first half of 2018.
- Of this total, the NAFTA region (USA-Mexico-Canada) produced 7,000,257 units, including 4,786,570 for the USA, 1,624,537 for Mexico and 589,150 for Canada. The NAFTA region therefore produced almost as many vehicles as the European Union (7,568,643 units). It increased by 26.5% in the first half of 2021 compared to the first half of 2020, but remains down 20% compared to the first half of 2019.
- South America, which represents only 1,237,364 units out of the total of the two Americas, or 15% of this total, has progressed much more than the NAFTA region as Brazil increased by 50.7% in 2021 and the Argentina by 125.4% but these two countries had fallen more in 2020, due to greater difficulties linked to the coronavirus crisis.
- If we compare passenger cars to LUVs, the two Americas produced 5,857,767 passenger cars in the first half of 2021 against 4,636,163 in the first half of 2020 (up 26.3%) and 2,379,854 LUVs against 1,658,048 in first half of 2020 (up 43.5%), LUVs representing 28.9% of the total. The share of LUVs produced in the two Americas is higher than in Europe, because in addition to vans, there are also a large number of pick-ups, which are rather rare on the European market.
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