This represents the highest volume recorded for a similar period since  2017 , when more than 137,000 units were sold , representing a historic record for the third month of the year.

The agency also reported that during the January-March period of this year, car sales reached  365,017 units , a  3.3% increase  compared to the same period in 2024.

Nissan  with  17.9%  of the market, followed by  General Motors  with  13.5% ,  Volkswagen  with  11.6%  and  Toyota  with  8.2% , stood out among the brands with the best performance in the year to date , revealed in their report the  Mexican Association of Automobile Distributors (AMDA)  and the  Mexican Association of the Automotive Industry (AMIA) .

Brands such as Chirey , Isuzu , and MG Motor , showed declines in their sales during March 2025, with decreases of 14.2%, 48.6% and 20.1%, respectively, against the placements of the same month last year.

As for  luxury brands , in the third month of the year BMW registered an increase of 11%, Acura of 3.1%, and Mercedes-Benz of 9.3 percent, compared to March 2024.

According to figures from Inegi, sales of light vehicles reached their highest level in eight years last March .

This increase in vehicle sales in the third month of 2025 comes in a context of uncertainty due to the tariff policy imposed by the President of the United States, Donald Trump , by charging a 25% rate on cars imported by the United States, as well as the imposition of reciprocal taxes on several countries around the world, announced on April 2.

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In November 2024, light vehicle sales in Mexico reached 147,971 units, which meant an increase of 14.3% compared to the same month last year, but also places it as the best record of the last 83 months, only surpassed by December 2017, according to data from the Administrative Registry of the Light Vehicle Automotive Industry (RAIAVL)  of the  National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) .

The agency also reported that during the first 11 months of the year, automobile sales totaled 1,350,362 cars , which represented an increase of 10.7% compared to the same period in 2023.

Among  the most prominent brands in the year-to-date  are  Nissan with 17% of the market, followed by  General Motors  with 13.8% ,  Volkswagen  with 11.8% , and Toyota with 8.2% , revealed in their report the  Mexican Association of Automobile Distributors (AMDA)  and the Mexican Association of the Automotive Industry (AMIA).

Other brands such as KIA with 7% and Mazda with 6.7% also performed well in vehicle sales during this period.

Meanwhile, Asian firms showed variable performance . In this sense, the one that registered the biggest drop in sales during November 2024 was the Chinese Chirey , with a drop of 34.1% , reporting 2,054 units against those sold in the same month last year.

Japanese Honda also had a 9.3% decrease in vehicle sales , with 4,502 cars compared to 4,962 sold in November 2023.

Jetour  sold 188 units, which represented a 42% drop compared to the 324vehicles it sold in the eleventh month of last year.

With these figures, the Mexican automobile industry is making progress in its recovery , after a fall last September and an upturn in light vehicle sales in October, reaching 122,051 new units.

According to data from Inegi, November was the best month so far this year for car sales ; in addition, the eleventh month of this year was the best for the same month since 2016, when 154,779 vehicles were sold.

These results also occur in the context of a new extension  of the decree for the regularization of imported used vehicles , colloquially known as  chocolate cars , which was extended until  September 30, 2026 .

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The National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) indicated that during May of this year, sales of new cars in the domestic market grew by 12.3% compared to the same month last year, reaching around 119,985 units.

The information comes from 23 companies affiliated with the Mexican Association of the Automotive Industry, A.C. (AMIA), Autos Orientales Picacho, Giant Motors Latin America, and Great Wall Motor Mexico.

Meanwhile, from January to May of this year, 585,721 units were sold, representing an increase of 12.7% compared to the same period in 2023.

In this regard, AMIA and the Mexican Association of Automotive Distributors (AMDA) released the total sales report of new light vehicles by brand. The top 5 were: Nissan, General Motors, Volkswagen, Toyota, and Kia.

Guillermo Rosales Zárate, executive president of AMDA, highlighted that in terms of performance against the immediate previous month (April 2024), there is an increase in the sales of new light vehicles, by 6,734 units, which represents a progress of 5.9%.

Rosales Zárate indicated that with these figures, the light vehicle market in May exceeded what AMDA estimated, which stood at 111,997 units. The estimate had a percentage difference of -6.7% compared to the observed data of 119,985 units.

Additionally, the AMDA representative commented that the level of commercialization in May is higher than the sales of the same month in 2019, a pre-pandemic year, standing at 17.1% above the 102,422 units sold then. From January to May 2024, the market is positioned above 2019 sales levels by 9.7%.

Regarding the national consumer price index, it recorded an annual advance of 4.78%, and the corresponding index for car purchases had an annual increase of 1.59%, with data as of the first half of May 2024.

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