Mexico auto production increased 16.4% in July from year ago

Mexican production of cars and light trucks rose to 209, 534 units in July, a 16.4 percent increase from the same month a year earlier, the nation’s Automobile Industry Association, known as AMIA, said.

Exports of vehicles rose 23.9 percent last month to 177,843 units, the group said today in a statement distributed in Mexico City.

Domestic sales increase 10.6 percent to 68,533 vehicles, according to the nation’s car dealership association, or AMDA.

To contact the reporter on this story: Adriana Lopez Caraveo in Mexico City at adrianalopezbloomberg.net