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32 March 2019 | AutoData INDUSTRY » PRODUCTION By Sergio Quintanilha THE ENGINES’ BLACK BOX IS OPEN An exclusive survey by AutoData shows the total number of Otto cycle engines produced in Brazil: there were a total of 2.6 million last year. last year, either shipping only the engines themselves or embarked under the hood of exported vehicles. The only manufacturers that did not disclose their engine volumes last year for this AutoData surveywere General Motors and Ford. In these two cases, we had the colla- boration of Jato Dynamics, a specialist consultancy firm, to obtain them although these should be considered as approximate estimate. According to the study, Volkswagen was the company that most produced Otto Cycle engines in Brazil in 2018. VW, 601 THOUSAND All the Volkswagen Group combustion engines are produced in Sao Carlos, SP, being 436 thousand destined to the do- mesticmarket and 165 thousand to export. Volkswagen produces two engine families there, the EA111 and the EA211. The EA111 today consists of only one engine, the 1.6 liter four cylinders for the models Gol, Fox, Voyage and Saveiro. The EA211 family is lar- ger: 1.6 literMSI for the Gol, Voyage, Saveiro Cross, Polo and Virtus, 1 liter MPI for the Up!, Gol, Voyage and Polo, 1.4 liter TSI for Golf, Jetta andTiguanAllspace, besides the Audi A3 and Q3, and the 1.0 TSI with three cylinderr for the Up!, Polo, Virtus and Golf. H owmany automotive Otto cycle en- gines are manufactured annually in Brazil? For a long time that question remained unanswered, since Anfa- vea does not compile those data, the Mi- nistry of Economy does not either, and let alone a specific association for this segment. Therefore, this information was hidden inside the worksheets of every manufac- turer installed in the country without any type of public sharing. AutoData, however, threw itself into the challenge and reached a number: in 2018, almost 2.6million Otto cycle engineswere produced in Brazil for the domesticmarket and export - flex and gasoline. The total is practically identical to the one regarding light vehicles with an Otto engine – consequently excluding Diesel - produced in the country in 2018, accor- ding to Anfavea, 2.6 million units as well. But comparatively the engine production is larger, since many Brazilian models use imported engines: it’s the case of the Hyun- dai HB20 and Creta and the Toyota Corolla, for example, which accounted for about 245 thousand of these 2.6 million vehicles produced. The difference in favor of the engines is in export: according to theAutoData survey, there were almost 559 thousand Brazilian engines produced for the foreign market