A specialist in the manufacture of interiors for buses and trains of more than 30 years, Ellamp SpA, has changed ownership in a management buyout involving CEO, Ing. Massimo Ottino and his partners, which includes the original founder (1987) and president, Franco Oblatore.

Volkswagen Trucks and Buses presented at the NTU National Seminar, held in Brasilia at the end of August, the first 15m city bus with second directional front axle in the country.

Fuso, the brand name of Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corporation and Chevrolet, which is the brand name given to trucks sold in Ecuador imported from Isuzu Motors Ltd in Japan, have both announced investments upgrading their range of trucks in order to try and expand their respective market shares in the country and region.

FPT Industrial Brasil and FTP Industrial Argentina - the components subsidiaries in the region of CNH Industrial NV, which includes engines, axles, transmissions and power generators - have passed a total of 500,000 engines to be made in South America.

Divemotor Peru Ltda and representative of Mercedes-Benz in the Peruvian market for the past 25 years, has introduced Euro V medium-duty trucks to the market despite there being no current requirement to do so.

A national survey of 449 fleet operating companies conducted by the Ecuadorian magazine, Buen Viaje, specialized in tourism and bus operations, which represents 56.5% of the total of 709 dedicated to passenger transportation, revealed that the vast majority of buses in use in the country has bodies produced by domestic manufacturers.

Phillipp Schiemer, the president of Mercedes-Benz do Brasil Ltda and CEO of Latin America, ahead of the Fenatrans Show this month announced the New Actros truck, which is to be launched in 2020, would revolutionize the extra-heavy vehicle segment in Brazil and provide customers with the smartest, most secure, connected, and efficient model of all time.

Marcopolo SA reported revenues of  BRA898.6m (USD224m) in the first quarter of this year, which is an increase of 17.5% on BRA764.8m (USD191m) registered in the same period of 2018.

Fundições Tupy SA, an engine block and components manufacturer, reported a 17.9% increase in revenue to BRA2.68bn (USD670m) for the first half of 2019 compared with BRA2.27bn (USD568m); net income increased by 33% to BRA139.8m (USD35m).

VW Caminhões e Ônibus Ltda announced it would use Fenatran 2019, held in Sao Paulo this month, to promote a series of technological upgrades and new variants in its truck range for the Brazilian and South American markets with a concentration of them being in the light and heavy-duty segments.

As an initiative to help transport operators in Argentina, where the economy has been contracting, Volvo Trucks Argentina of Buenos Aires, Argentina, has initiated a price freeze on original spare parts in the country.

Volvo Buses Latin America Ltda has delivered the first 336 buses (202 articulated and 134 bi-articulated) of the 700 new buses ordered last November for Transmilenio operations in Bogotá; the vehicles started operations in June.