That’s not counting the markups. The detail of all the brands and models that were considered in the analysis of the cars
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01/19/2023 – 09:39 a.m.
According to the list price suggested by the automotive for the 10 best-selling cars in the country, Argentines invest an average of $7.5 million in cars. This is revealed by the specialized media Engine1who carried out an “economic experiment” with the 10 most patented cars in 2022.
To make this report, an important fact was highlighted. Of the 10 cheapest cars sold in the country, only Toyota Etios, Fiat Cronos and Toyota Yaris are repeated among the best sellers.
Within the top ten, the Toyota Etios starts at $3,428,000 in its Hatckback X MT version, being the cheapest, while at the other extreme is the Volkswagen Amarok Black Style V6 4×4 AT pickup with a value of $16,482,450. Between those two list prices that are located at the beginning and at the end of the analyzed universe is the average: 7,494,250 pesos.
To arrive at this number, the average of each member of the list was made between its entry-level and top-of-the-range version, and then the two average results between the cheapest and the most expensive range were taken, they explain in Motor1.
Average price in dollars that Argentines pay for a 0km
If the account is made in dollars, taking the official exchange rate of $189 as a reference, the account gives $39,652. If you look at the value of the blue dollar, at 376 pesos average, the cost is $19,931.
In short, to choose any of the best-selling cars on the list, taking the mid-range version, not counting premiums, the cost of the transfer and some other imponderables, at least 7.5 million pesos or 20,000 dollars will be needed. And depending on the model and version chosen, some bills will be left over or missing. It will be a matter of doing some calculations.
The Toyota Etios is the cheapest car of the 10 best sellers.
The 10 best sellers of 2022 according to ACARA and the official price lists of the brands for January 2023 are the following:
- Fiat Cronos: 38,769 units / 4,419,600 pesos
- Peugeot 208: 25,649 units / 5,153,850 pesos
- Toyota Hilux: 24,628 units / 11,111,500 pesos
- Volkswagen Amarok: 21,249 units / 12,396,150 pesos
- Toyota Etios: 17,639 units / 3,877,000 pesos
- Chevrolet Cruze: 15,221 units / 5,557,900 pesos
- Toyota Yaris: 14,316 units / 4,813,500 pesos
- Toyota Corolla Cross: 12,690 units / 8,459,000 pesos
- Ford Ranger: 13,189 units / 9,962,000 pesos
- Renault Kangoo II: 11,283 units / 5,699,400 pesos
How did car sales close in 2022?
According to the Association of Automotive Dealers of the Argentine Republic (ACARA), the number of patented vehicles during December 2022 amounted to 19,635 units, which represents an increase of 10.9% year-on-year since in the same month of 2021 there had been patented 17,698 units.
In this way, the year 2022 was completed with 407,532 units, this is 6.8% more than in the same period of 2021, in which 381,436 vehicles had been registered for the year.
The Volkswagen Amarok V6 pickup is the most expensive of the top 10 best sellers.
The president of ACARA, Ricardo Salomé commented: “the almost 19,700 vehicles in December mean that we end the year with a more than positive feeling, with good year-on-year growth and exceeding 407,000 registrations, something that at some point we saw as difficult to achieve. These are very soccer weeks and we can say that we have also played our championship with a positive result, since we have had to go through a 2022 that had its complexitiesbut together with the value chain we have formed a great team, which with a lot of effort has reached the end with good results despite having a very restricted offer”.
“They were 12 very intense months and as we have been warning since January, if we had had more vehicles the figures would have been considerably higher. In any case, we chose to keep the glass half full that we established a good brand from where we can now grow in 2023, We are already working together with the area authorities for this, we continue in action,” Salomé completed.
