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Car sales down 12.5% in Dec; registers second consecutive monthly decline

09 Jan 2013 Evaluate

Slowing GDP growth and high interest rates have slashed the car sales in India in the current fiscal. According to the data released by the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), car sales in December fell 12.5% to 141,083 units, the second consecutive monthly fall. So far this fiscal, car sales is down 0.33% on the same period a year ago. The auto industry is also expected to post weakest growth in nine years for this fiscal because of low GDP growth, rising fuel costs and expensive credit impacting the demand of cars in running fiscal.

As per the data released, motorcycle sales last month went up by 4.83% to 844,113 units from 805,198 units in December, 2011. Total two-wheeler sales for the reporting month rose by 4.45% to 11,37,148 units from 10,88,746 in the same month previous year.

Sales of commercial vehicles were down by 13% to 62,786 units from 72,166 units in the same period in 2011. Total sales of vehicles across categories registered an increase of 2.77% at 14,51,517 units last month as against 14,12,372 units in the same month previous year. The overall growth in domestic sales during April- December 2012 was 4.57% over the same period last year.

Further, SIAM has slashed its car sales growth forecast for the financial year ending March 2013 to 0-1%, its third downgrade this financial year from an initial estimate of 10-12%.

After a 30% expansion in sales in fiscal 2010-11, a slew of global carmakers including Ford, General Motors, and Nissan invested billions of dollars in building up their Indian operations. However, a series of interest rate hikes and rising fuel costs discouraged buyers, who are typically dependent on loans for purchases, affected the sales number of last year to 2.2%.

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