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13 AutoData | June 2018 tfolio close to the European, with small, medium and large vehicles in several versions. We are the leaders in SUVs in Europe and there is no reason why it may be different in Brazil. It is one of our ambitions in the medium term. Inclu- ding automobiles, in general, in terms of market our goal is to reach 5% of share until 2021, as PSA, adding Peugeot and Citroën [today is around 2%]. With DS? Without DS. Today we are in a prelimi- nary work to study what can become DS in Brazil. And without Opel? Yes. In the short term there is nothing about Opel on the table for Brazil. In terms of product, will the main focus be on SUVs? Both brands are generalist. We will not abandon segments neither in Brazil nor in theworld, the product plan isworldwide. The idea is to be present in the main segments with appropriate platforms to each of the markets and adjust the offer to what the market demands. In your point of view, why does the Brazi- lianmarket is going sowell in sales even with a tumultuous political scenario? The cycle of replacing a car in Brazil is extremely short, whoever has a three- -year-old car thinks it is an old car, the person feels bad about it. The crisis dam- med a lot of demand. We realized that the replaced vehicles are not old, they were semi-new. The people who don’t have conditions for that are not buying, but the people who have the condition for that are replacing their cars, and today’s interest rate helps. I think that, for now, it is more a cultural issue than economic. There is the fleet question too, where in that case there is a financial question, which is postponed to a certain extent, after that it becomes unfeasible. To sustain this growth we need that the economy help us from now on. “I think over the years Sérgio Habib, as an entrepreneur, focused on other businesses, he stopped having relevance even to us, now he was a small dealer.”