Tractor sales decreased by just 4.3% during the third quarter of fiscal year 2020-21 to register 4,049 units compared with 4,229 units in the same quarter of the previous year.

Domestic sales of buses (7.5t gvw and above) contracted by 84.3% in the third quarter of the financial year 2020-21 to register just 1,726 units compared with 11,025 units in Q3 of FY 2019-20!

Sales of LCV goods carrier vehicles (trucks of gvw ≤ 7.5t) increased by 5% to 139,041 units in Q3 of FY2020-21 from 132,420 units in same period of FY2019-20.

The Brazilian bus and coach manufacturing sector sold 18,219 units in 2020, a decrease of 33% from the 27,193 vehicles registered in 2019, according to FENABRAVE.

ANFAVEA forecasts that 100,000 new trucks will be sold in Brazil in 2021, which is very close to the performance recorded just years ago in 2019.

Trucks was the only vehicle segment to record positive results for 2020 in the Colombian automotive sector with sales registrations totalling 16,663 units, an increase of 7% compared with 15,577 units sold in 2019 according to Andemos.

According to data released by ANAC commercial vehicles sales totalled 13,272 units, down by 18.8% compared with 16,342 units sold in 2019.

The market for bus and coach chassis slumped badly in 2020 to register 13,931 units, a 33.4% reduction in sales on 2019 registrations of 20,932 vehicles, one unit more than 7,000 vehicles fewer.

In 2020, the Uruguayan market registered 1,748 new trucks, 12.4% more than the 1,555 units sold in 2019 and only 224 buses, 38.5% fewer than the 364 units sold in the previous year.

The Peruvian market reached sales of 12,909 heavy commercial vehicles, a decrease of 22.5% compared with 2019, when it registered 16,650 vehicles, according to AAP.

Argentina in 2020 registered 10,562 heavy commercial vehicles (trucks and buses), a 9.9% decrease compared with the 11,725 units sold in 2019, according to data released by Acara.

Overall, total sales of truck bodies and semi-trailers finished the year up 0.8% over the previous year, by registering 121,891 units against 120,962 units, according to Anfir.