Mexican production up 3.2%, exports up 16.1% in April

The Asociacion Mexicana de la Industria Automotriz (AMIA) released April 2017 figures on May 8.
Production of 278,173 light vehicles in April was up 3.2% from the 269,604 units produced in the same month last year.
Productions by manufacture are as follows: Nissan was down 12.9% to 61,424 units, GM was down 9.9% to 52,594 units, FCA was up 41.4% to 41,147 units, VW was down 1.7% to 38,803 units, and Ford was up 10.2% to 28,877 units.

Exports in April of 228,810 light vehicles showed an big increase of 16.1% compared to the number of vehicles exported last April.
Exports by manufactures are as follows: GM was down 0.6% to 43,974 units, FCA was up 44.9% to 41,885 units, VW was up 34.7% to 33,554 units, Nissan was down 25.0% to 29,414 units, and Ford was up 46.1% to 27,697 units.
The destination of first four month export volumes indicates that the majority of exports, 76.4%, went to the U.S. The North America region accounted for 85.4% of the total exports.