Between January and June of this year, prices for each brand’s cheapest cars rose between $4 million and $8 million. 0km
82 minimum salaries are needed to buy the most economical 0km of all those currently offered by the brands and 99 minimum salaries to buy the most expensive among the cheapest vehicles of each of the brands with their values updated to this sixth month of the year. year, according to official data from the brands.
With the minimum vital and mobile wage that grew from $156,000 in January to $234,000 in May, accumulating an increase of 50%, the prices of 0km vehicles for the most part advanced above 50%. Meanwhile, the salary index measured by Indec among registered workers, from January to March, the latest data available, registered an increase of 48%.
In this way, salaries still chase both inflation and 0km prices from behind.
The prices of these 5 0km, which are among the most economical or entry-level of the brands, increased between $4 and up to $8 million in nominal values compared to the first month of the year.
Although the accumulated inflation between January and May, the latest data available, reached 71%, despite the fact that the increase in the prices of 0km vehicles was almost 20 points below inflation, salaries were adjusted even below the increase. that the values of new vehicles had.
The new values of the 0km in this sixth month of the year had a disparate behavior in a context in which each company sought to mitigate the drop they have registered in their sales since the beginning of the year. In this sense, there were brands that increased the prices of their entry-level units by up to 17% month-on-month after keeping them unchanged in the previous months. Meanwhile, others maintained the same prices as last month. There were some that even reduced the value of their vehicles by a few pesos compared to May and others that increased prices between 4 and 5%.
Precisely for this reason, faced with a general drop in the level of practically all activities and the marketing of all types of durable goods, different concessionaires began to promote their catalogs of savings plans with more emphasis.
