Automotive production rises in February, but exports drop
February was a month of mixed results for the automotive industry, on the one hand, with an increase in domestic production, but also a continued drop in exports, Inegi reported on Friday. In the second month of the year, 240,479 vehicles were manufactured in the country, which represented an increase of only 0.66 percent with respect to the same period last year, thus reversing a seven-month trend of annual contractions. However, Mexican car shipments abroad totaled 201,868 units, which represented a 5.66% contraction, adding eight consecutive months of annual rate declines. In its monthly