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Maruti revels in festival sales

While Maruti reported 17% sales increase in passenger car sales during the period, Hyundai registered sales increase of only 5.4%.

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NEW DELHI: Last month’s festivities spurred car sales, but mostly for market leader Maruti Udyog.

While Maruti reported almost 17% sales increase in passenger car sales during the month to cross the 60,000 units mark, Hyundai Motor India registered an overall sales increase of only 5.4%. Tata Motors reported a slight decline over the same month last year. T he average performance by two of the three top car makers in October is significant, since the remaining two months of this calendar year are usually the slowest in terms of car off-take, with consumers preferring to wait for the new year to buy their dream machines.

However, the three smaller players - Ford India, Skoda and General Motors - continued to log very high growth numbers in October, mainly on account of the small base.

Sample this: Maruti’s sales grew at 16.7% to cross the 60,000 unit mark (60,163 against 51,543 in the same month last year). This is despite a whopping 30 % decline in the sales of bread and butter model Maruti 800 at 6,354 units (9,087 units). Alto led the growth for Maruti last month, with sales of this car touching a record 22,294 units - the highest ever for any model in a single month. Even the A2 segment sales for Maruti saw robust growth. Combined sales of Alto, WagonR, Zen and Swift at 38,940 (31,531 units) registered  a growth of over 23%. The only laggards were the A3 cars Baleno and Esteem with combined sales declining by almost 12% at 2,700 units (3058 units). MUVs Gypsy and Vitara saw sales dip by over 42% at 147 units (256 units). However, bucking the prevalent trend, Maruti’s export earnings rose 246% at 4,269 vehicles (1,235 vehicles).

Hyundai saw a sales spurt of only 5.4% at 26,110 vehicles (24,762 vehicles) during the month under review, with export numbers playing spoilsport. While the company registered an 18% increase in domestic sales at 18, 603 units last month (13,394 units), exports plunged 34% to 7,507 units (11,367 units) in October.

Tata Motors, on the other hand, reported 2.8% decline in passenger vehicle sales at 16,726 units, but saw sales of Indica surge 9.1% to 10,998 units during last month. Sales of the Indigo family, however, fell to half at 1722 units, due to a fire in the Tata Motor’s car paint shop in September.

General Motors India reported 12% sales increase in October at 3,153 units (2,829 units) whereas Ford India saw sales spurt by 142% to 3,336 units (1,376 units). Skoda India sold 1,062 vehicles last month (990 units), registering about 7% growth.

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