Brazil: The Country of Old Cars

Written by Romário Pereira de Carvalho

Published on 08/06/2025 at 08:15

Imagem ilustrativa: IA

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Sindipeças Survey Reveals Real Brazilian Fleet, With Accelerated Aging and 62.1 Million Vehicles Actually in Circulation in the Country

The Sindipeças survey shows a scenario very different from the official numbers from Senatran. In 2024, the agency registered 123.97 million vehicles in Brazil. However, this total includes cars, motorcycles, mopeds, scooters, trailers, and semi-trailers. The problem is that many of these vehicles are no longer in circulation but remain registered due to lack of official deregistration.

Deregistration of a vehicle requires facing complicated bureaucracy. At the end of its useful life, the owner often doesn’t know how to proceed or simply doesn’t complete the process. Thus, the official number is overestimated.

Sindipeças’ Own Methodology

To correct this distortion, Sindipeças uses technical criteria to calculate the actual circulating fleet. Scrapping rates, losses in traffic accidents, and abandoned vehicles in dismantling yards are taken into account.

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Fleet of Vehicles Becoming Increasingly Older

Another noteworthy statistic is the aging of the fleet. In 2015, vehicles up to five years old represented 38.5% of the motor vehicle fleet.

In 2024, this percentage dropped to 22.3%, falling from 16.5 million to 10.7 million units, a decrease of 35.2%.

Meanwhile, vehicles older than 16 years increased from 17.6% to 23.8% during this period. The average age of cars rose from 8 years and 10 months to 11 years and 2 months. Motorcycles follow the same trend: in 2015, 85% were up to 10 years old; today, only 65% are.

Proposals and International Comparisons

One solution could be a recycling program alongside fleet renewal and Technical Vehicle Inspection. However, political support for these measures is lacking. In the international comparison, Brazil has 4.4 inhabitants per vehicle. Argentina has 2.6, and Mexico, 2.4. The situation remains the same.

With information from MSN.

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Georges

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15/06/2025 07:14

Nos locais por onde circulo não é como essa foto aí do Armagedon. Algum carro mais velho e/ou mal cuidado se vê mas aí entraria as “autoridados” policiais para minimizar os riscos de acidentes.

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Manoel Trindade

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14/06/2025 17:46

Duvido que haja um com frota de carros mais velhos que Cuba.

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Marco Antônio Brescovit

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14/06/2025 08:59

Essa foto deve ser no Uruguai

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Brazil: The Country of Old Cars

Sindipeças Survey Reveals Real Brazilian Fleet, With Accelerated Aging and 62.1 Million Vehicles Actually in Circulation in the Country

Sindipeças’ Own Methodology

Fleet of Vehicles Becoming Increasingly Older

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Brazil: The Country of Old Cars

Sindipeças Survey Reveals Real Brazilian Fleet, With Accelerated Aging and 62.1 Million Vehicles Actually in Circulation in the Country

Sindipeças’ Own Methodology

Fleet of Vehicles Becoming Increasingly Older

Proposals and International Comparisons

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A giant brown band visible from space, approximately 8,850 kilometers long, connected Africa to America in the Atlantic Ocean, and satellites revealed that it is neither land nor pollution, but the largest accumulation of seaweed in the world, which broke records in 2025.

Instead of burning or burying old tires, an American city is transforming about 2,000 of them into the street itself, paving its first sections with a quieter and more durable rubber asphalt.

In just one cast, fishermen are surprised to capture 14,096 mullets in Bombinhas and close a historic season with 58,000 fish; scene recorded in the Santa Catarina paradise marks the last day of the 2026 season.

Consumers eat six times more chicken than in the 1960s, global meat supply quadruples in 60 years, and FAO report reveals the invisible cost on the plate: livestock could drive 80% of the increase in agricultural emissions over the next decade.

Greek island offers free housing for volunteers, but there’s a condition: you need to take care of rescued cats.

Motorcyclist sees excavator arriving at the edge of a river in Bosnia, calls neighbors in minutes and turns a hydroelectric project into a resistance lasting more than 10 years with five expired concessions.

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