The state of Bajío surpassed Nuevo León, according to INA data. Guanajuato is also the third state that assembles the most light vehicles in Mexico, after Puebla and Coahuila.

Guanajuato has continued its economic recovery and last February it reached the third national place in auto parts production, according to information collected by the National Auto Parts Industry (INA).

The most dynamic Automotive Cluster in Latin America now represents 10.9% of the national production of auto parts, surpassing Nuevo León and ranking behind Coahuila (16.7%) and Chihuahua (12.4%). In fifth place is another Bajío state, Querétaro, with 6.4% of national production; The list is completed by San Luis Potosí and Aguascalientes, in ninth and tenth place with 5.5% and 5.4% respectively.

Alberto Bustamante, Director of Foreign Trade of the INA, affirms that the growth in the production of Guanajuato and the Bajío responds to governments that act in favor of attracting investments and supporting them, in addition to being strategically located, at similar distances to the main ports like Manzanillo and Veracruz, or border crossings like Nuevo Laredo.

In addition to being the third producing state of auto parts, Guanajuato is the third state in assembling light vehicles with more than 6.2 million units produced in the last 15 years according to INEGI, only behind Puebla and Coahuila.

The Mazda, Honda, Toyota and General Motors plants generate more than 20,000 direct jobs and have the installed capacity to further grow their production.

According to Solili, Guanajuato closed 1Q 2021 positively generating a demand of almost 41 thousand square meters driven by the automotive industry and with an increase in inventory of more than 50 thousand square meters, where 60% correspond to BTS projects, highlighting the Silao-León corridor with most of these

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