India Jul car sales down 2% on year, motorcycles up 22%

[B. Karthick]

DATA ALERT: India Jul car sales down 2% on year, motorcycles up 22%
Monday, Aug 11

India's domestic passenger car sales in July fell 1.7% to 87,724
units from 89,250 a year ago, the automobile manufacturers' body said
today.
July car sales were 12.0% lower than 99,738 units sold a month
earlier, the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers said.
Domestic commercial vehicle sales in July rose 1.9% from a year
ago to 34,359 units, the association said.
Local two-wheeler sales in July grew 19.5% to 599,369 units from
501,691 units a year ago.
Motorcycle sales for the month were up 21.9% on year to 457,178
units.

SIAM detailed the domestic sales of commercial vehicles, passenger
cars, three-wheelers, and two-wheelers for July and Apr-Jul as
follows:

Jul Jun Jul
Yr-on-yr
2008 2008 2007
change(%)
.
Commercial vehicles 34,359 40,324 33,709 1.9
of which
Medium and Heavy vehicle 17,557 21,755 17,937 (-)2.1
Light vehicles 16,802 18,569 15,772
6.5
Passenger cars 87,724 99,738 89,250 (-)1.7
Multi-purpose vehicles 8,719 9,543 7,786 12.0
Utility vehicles 17,379 20,255 18,445
(-)5.8
Two-wheelers 599,369 601,941 501,691 19.5
of which
Scooters/scooterettes 99,458 89,809 87,830 13.2
Motorcycles/step-through 457,178 473,899 375,004 21.9
Mopeds 39,486 35,715 37,192
6.2
Electric 2-wheelers 3,247 2,518 1,665
95.0
Three-wheelers 31,357 29,804 30,890 1.5
.
Total 778,907 801,605 681,771 14.2
Exports 133,011 127,777 109,214 21.8
.
Apr-Jul Apr-Jul Yr-on-
yr
2008-09 2007-08 change(%)
.
Commercial vehicles 144,299 133,610 7.9
of which
Medium and Heavy vehicle 77,578 73,571 5.4
Light vehicles 66,721 60,039 11.1
Passenger cars 396,945 364,458 8.9
Multi-purpose vehicles 35,569 28,543 24.6
Utility vehicles 82,803 71,363 16.0
Two-wheelers 2,464,706 2,242,519 9.9
of which
Scooters/scooterettes 368,174 344,006 7.0
Motorcycles/step-through 1,945,878 1,753,772 11.0
Mopeds 143,431 138,747 3.4
Electric 2-wheelers 7,223 5,994 20.5
Three-wheelers 120,438 116,608 3.3
Total 3,244,760 2,957,101 9.7
Exports 494,479 399,043 23.9
End

B.Karthick,
Research Analyst.