Sales Figures Reviews

According to the Society of Manufacturers of Electric Vehicles (SMEV), in FY 2017-18 the sales of electric cars came down to 1200 units from 2000 units in FY2016-17 recording a slump of 40 per cent. The sales were flat at 2000 units in FY2016-17.

The Maruti Suzuki Ciaz has turned out to be the most-selling C-segment sedan in the country with over 24,000 units sold during the first half of 2018-2019 financial year. The Ciaz currently accounts for a 28.8 per cent market share in the segment which comprises products like the Honda City, Hyundai Verna, Toyota Yaris, Volkswagen Vento, Skoda Rapid and the likes. Adding to the growth momentum was the launch of the Maruti Suzuki Ciaz facelift that arrived in August this year and registered over 10,000 bookings in the first month since the launch, the company announced in a statement.

More than 25 per cent customers have bought the top-spec variants and almost 20 per cent of sales consist of automatic variants.

The TVS Apache RTR 160 4V has sold more than 1 lakh units since the bike was launched in March 2018.

The Eeco was designed to cater the needs of the middle-class Indian family especially in tier 2 cities and also to support small scale business. It has a huge customer base in the intra city logistics market and is preferred by the courier and online-retail companies along with a good customer set of local sole-proprietors. The Eeco is powered by a 1.2-litre, four-cylinder engine that develops 73 bhp and 101 Nm of peak torque. Maruti has also added a CNG variant in the Eeco line-up that delivers a high fuel economy of 21.8 kmpl and 17 per cent of total Eeco sales are attributed to the CNG variant.

The Innova Crysta and Fortuner has remained a steady performer for Toyota. The sales of Toyota's passenger cars were lingering for quite some time but got a shot in the arm with arrival of the recently launched Yaris. To top it all, Toyota has also claimed that the Etios Liva sales went up by 10 per cent during the April-September 2018 period this year as the Dual Tone Etios Liva Limited Edition was well received in the market.

Hyundai India has come out with its official sales numbers for the month of September 2018, and the carmaker has registered a cumulative growth of a marginal 1 per cent last month.

Hero MotoCorp has become the first two-wheeler maker in the world to sell over 7.5 lakh units in a single month. The Indian two-wheeler giant sold 769,138 units in September 2018. That's about 25,637 units every day. The massive growth is backed the company's range of commuter motorcycles and scooters across the 100-200 cc segment. This is for the fifth time Hero has managed to cross the seven lakh sales mark in a month, three of which were in this financial year 2018-19.