Accordingto the AskCI Database, national vehicle production volumes have had anoticeable decrease during the first 2 quarters of 2019. Vehicle production volumes in June were at 1.96 million vehicles, a 15.2% decrease over the previous year. A total of 12.14 million vehicles were manufactured during the first half of 2014, a 14.2% decrease over the previous year.

Figure 1: 2019 H1 nationalvehicle production volumes