Despite second quarter sales in the light truck segment remaining flat, half year sales of  LCV goods carrier (truck) vehicles (gvw ≤ 7.5t) grew by 36.7% to 179,929 units in first half of FY 2021-22, up from 131,582 units in same period of FY 2020-21. Export sales enjoyed robust growth of 176.7% to 24,445 units, helping to help boost production of light trucks by 57.4% to more than 210,000 units (135,021).

Sales of light duty vehicles (7.5t &below) in the first half of FY 2021-22 surged by 105.1% to register 9,485 units, up from 4,625 units first half of FY 2020-21. Production increased by 67.2% from 5,980 units to 9,999 units, exports were up by 49.7% from 539 units to 807 units.

Sales of buses and coaches (7.5t gvw and above) in India increased by 227.8% in the first half of the fiscal year 2021-22 to register 2,816 units compared 859 units in first half of FY 2020-21. Total exports also increased, by 83.3%, in the first half of FY 2021-22 to record 2,159 units, up from 1,178 units in the first half of FY 2020-21. Total bus production increased too in the half year of FY 2020-21 to 4,655, a gain of 131.0%.

Positive sales of medium and heavy rigid trucks (7.5t gvw and above) in India of the first quarter continued into the second, realising growth of 165.8% in the first half (1H) of FY2021-22 to register 70,917 units compared with 26,677 units in same period of 2020-21.

Tractor sales in India increased by 526.5% during the half of FY 2021-22 to register 8,884 units compared with 1,418 units in the same period of the previous year (1H/FY 2020-21). Tractor production increased by 595.6% overall from 1,384 units to 9,627 units and export sales up by 1161.8%.

Production of trucks and buses grew by 84.6% in the first nine months of 2021 (132,867 units over 71,959 in the same period of the previous year), according to data released by Anfavea.

Despite the year-to-date performance in the bus and coach sector showing growth with 10,938 units sold, a 10.8% increase over the same period of the previous year, September sales came in at 847 units, a drop of 33.1% from the 1,273 units licensed in August and -30.8% compared with sales of 1,234 units in September 2020.

Production of trailer and truck bodies in Brazil during the third quarter of 2021 totalled  44,132 units, an increase of 22% over Q3 2020, according to ANFIR.

Truck sales grew by 112.1% in the first nine months of 2021 over the same period of the previous year, with 24,090 units sold (compared to 11,334), according to ANDEMOS.

Bus and coach sales in Colombia saw a 24.1% decrease to register 1,547 in comparison with 2,037 with the previous year, according to ANDEMOS.

The Argentine commercial vehicle market closed the first nine months of 2021 with the sale of 11,608 units, marking an increase of 50.8% over the same period in 2020, according to ACARA.

In Chile, 11,780 trucks were sold from January to September, an increase of 68.3%, while bus sales totaled 1,279, down 38.6%, according to ANAC.