After 10 painful years of meager growth, the automotive industry has revived and Brazil is once again registering record sales. Several auto makers are already working triple shifts and having employees work on weekends and will soon have to consider expanding capacity. The global auto parts players may be well-structured to make such changes, but the industry is also very dependent on hundreds of smaller local auto parts suppliers that will not be able to keep up with this rhythm without either private financing or government support.