Notícia no mundo todo! Não é para ficarmos orgulhosos?
Segundo reportagem de Alexei Barrionuevo, correspondente do NY Times no Brasil, mesmo com a crise, as vendas de blindados na cidade de São Paulo estão em crescimento. Os blindados, antes limitados aos muito ricos, agora se tornaram objeto de desejo da classe média
"It is not a question of if you are going to be assaulted, it is when it is going to happen,” said Craig Bavington, who runs a tourist agency based here. After being assaulted twice, he decided to buy a used armored car two years ago when his wife became pregnant with their first child.
More than 7,000 vehicles were armored for civilian use in Brazil in 2008, up from 1,782 a decade earlier, and the pace has continued in 2009 despite the economy’s dispiriting first quarter, according to the Brazilian Association of Bulletproof Manufacturers.
A decade ago, there were just a handful of armoring companies in Brazil. Today there are about 120.
São Paulo leads the country — and the world — in making and selling armored cars. Rio de Janeiro, a city with legitimate concerns about stray bullets from gang warfare in the favelas, or shantytowns, overhanging the city, is Brazil’s second-largest market.
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