Mexico City, The Mexican armoured-car industry will close the year with a 10 percent growth over 2010 as the prevailing violence in Mexico drives more and more business leaders and government officials to seek the protection of its products, an industry official said. More than 2,500 armoured cars have been manufactured in 2011, the vice president of the Mexican Association of Automotive Armor-Plating, Mauricio Natale, said Thursday, adding that the industry has begun armour-plating medium-priced cars costing between 200,000 and 400,000 pesos ($14,800 and $29,600). The industry has developed improved armour-plating technology for lighter vehicles and ones that a few years ago were not considered capable of providing protection, he said in a communique. "They're not necessarily luxury vehicles, but cars or SUVs with good technology" that aren't considered top of the line, Natale, who is also an executive of the TPS Armoring company, said. They are owned by directors, mid-level civil servants or entrepreneurs with medium-sized businesses, he said, referring to the trend toward a "democratization" of armoured cars in the country. Natale said that the growing demand has ...
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