Sales Figures News

Ford India released its sales report for the month of August, 2018 as the carmaker's domestic wholesales rose to 8,042 vehicles as against 7,777 units in the same month last year, an increase of 3.41 per cent. The combined domestic wholesales and exports in August registered a growth of 23.76 per cent with 20,648 vehicles compared to 15,740 vehicles in August 2017. The exports grew to 12,606 vehicles compared to 7,963 units in August 2017, an increase of 36.83 per cent.

The LCV sales saw a spike in its sales with an increase of 38 per cent with 4,228 units sold in August 2018 against 3,067 units as compared to the same period last year.

Maruti Suzuki India announced that the total sales have gone down by 3.6 per cent compared the same period last year, as the sales were adversely affected due to severe floods in Kerala and heavy rains in other parts of the country.

The company also hopes that with the rains being plentiful, it expects the rural demand to pick up in the coming month and hopes for a push in customer demand in the festive season.

Honda added nearly 50 lakh customers in just three years in the region, while the first 50 lakh customers in the region were added in 14 years.

The Honda Navi took two and a half years to breach the 1 lakh mark of unit sales.

The JLR sales were down in Europe by 26.5 per cent while the sales in the UK were down by 18.3 per cent, impacted by the industry-wide issue of delays in WLTP certification of 2019 model year vehicles.

The sales of the domestic passenger vehicles including cars, UVs and Van saw a decline of 2.71 per cent to 2,90,960 units in July 2018 from 2,99,066 units from July 2017.