Domestic car sales skid for second successive month; decline by 5.36% in Sept

10 Oct 2012 Evaluate

On account of higher petrol prices, total domestic sale of vehicles across categories registered a dip of 9.43% to 1418,134 units last month against 1565,757 units in September 2011. Out of which, domestic passenger car sales witnessed a fall of 5.36% to 157,536 units in September 2012 compared with 166,464 units in the same month last year.

Further, according to the data released by the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), motorcycle sales last month too skid by 18.85% to 7,53,693 units from 9,28,716 units in the same month previous year. Total two-wheeler sales decreased 12.92% to 1069,069 units from 1227,662.

On the flip side, total sales of commercial vehicles have registered a marginal growth of 0.04% at 70,683 units last month from 70,658 units in the year-ago period. Additionally, domestic sales of total passenger vehicles rose by 4.88% from 218,166 units in September last year to 228,806 units for the month under review. While light commercial vehicles went up 11.67%, medium and heavy commercial vehicles witnessed de-growth of 14.8%. Furthermore, three-wheelers clocked marginal growth of 0.62% at 49,576 units during the month.

Reasoning ‘high interest rates and slowing economic growth’, industry body, SIAM, has lowered forecast of Car sales in India to 1-3% from 9-11% earlier. Further, industry body has slashed its motorcycle sales growth for the year to 5-7 percent from 11-13%, and commercial vehicle sales growth to 3-5%, from 6-8%.

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