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34 May 2018 | AutoData EVENT » AUTODATA SEMINAR By Redação AutoData The dream of the common car in Mercosur AutoData Seminar New Opportunities of Mercosur shows that the real productive unification Brazil-Argentina is (finally) very close M ercosur has one of the most im- portant automotive industrial pa- rks in the world, but differences in legislation in Brazil and Argentina, its major exponents, block the production of a 100% common vehicle, with exactly the same technical specifications, in both countries for sales in the neighbor. This sce- nario, however, should change soon - and the AutoData Seminar New Opportunities of Mercosur, held in São Paulo onMonday, April 23, showed that there is no lack of commitment in this direction. For Antônio Megale, president of Anfa- vea, who started the event, “convergence is important to face the difficulties”. He showed figures: Mercosur responded by market of 3.2 million and production of 3.1 million vehicles last year, but in 2013 the volumes were respectively 4.6million and 4.3million, in otherwords: there is obvious potential to grow via resumption. Interzone exports are 74% and of the other 26% half of it goes to Colombia and Mexico. Together, Brazil andArgentina have 76 factories, a fleet of 58 million vehicles and 3% of world production. “It is a region ready to move forward in production, improve productivity and com- petitiveness.” Christian Castanho