Amid the controversy for prices and public warning that Argentina’s Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, made a terminal if he played his May lists, the automotive market showed his impulse again in April. During the month, 54,001 vehicles were patented, a 63.9% growth against the same period of 2024, the Association of Automotive Dealers (ACARARA) reported. It is the best brand for April since 2018, when, in that month of that year, 76,554 units were patented.
In that year, the sector aimed to exceed 900,000 sales of 2017 but because of the collapse that the Argentine economy began to suffer in April of that year, they ended in just over 800,000. Now, after the 414,000 of 2024 -a 7.9% drop against 2023 -the automakers pointed to a market around 400,000 units, with 500,000 as maximum hypothesis. After the first bimester they recalculated and now they speak of 600,000 patents, which would be the best year for the automotive market since 2018 (there were 460,000 in 2019).
Between January and April, 2025 has accumulated 216,458 sales of 0 km, an increase of 83.9% against the same period of 2024. In January 2024, the market was practically paralyzed, after the exchange of December 2023 and the delay in the update of the internal tax that taxed cars. In 2025, on the other hand, the market continues with the traction it took in the second semester of 2024, sustained by the decline of interest rates -which pushed financed sales -the strong slowdown of inflation, macroeconomic stability, the reduction and elimination of taxes that were a ballast for the sector that the Government implemented in recent months.
Stellantis clarified that he did not change his lists and that he reviews them, eventually, decides last week updates of each month. On Ford prices, for May the decision is to maintain the current list of April.
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