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India May car sales up 14% on year, two-wheelers up 7%
Tuesday, Jun 10
India's domestic passenger car sales grew 14.3% year-on-year in
May to 110,743 units from 96,923 a year ago, the automobile
manufacturers' body said today.
May car sales were 12.2% higher than 98,740 units sold a month
earlier, the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers said.
Domestic commercial vehicle sales in May rose 6.1% from a year ago
to 35,294 units, the association said.
Local two-wheeler sales in May grew 7.0% to 647,358 units from
605,014 units a year ago.
Motorcycle sales for the month were up 7.4% on year to 513,209
units. SIAM detailed the domestic sales of commercial vehicles,
passenger cars, three-wheelers, and two-wheelers for May as follows:
.
May Apr May Yr-on-yr
2008 2008 2007 change(%)
.
Commercial vehicles 35,294 33,271 33,262 6.1
of which
Medium and Heavy vehicle 18,666 18,608 17,698 5.5
Light vehicles 16,628 14,663 15,564 6.8
Passenger cars 110,743 98,740 96,923 14.2
Multi-purpose vehicles 8,237 9,070 6,496 26.8
Utility vehicles 22,966 22,203 18,334 25.2
Two-wheelers 647,358 616,038 605,014 7.0
of which
Scooters/scooterettes 97,905 81,002 92,048 6.4
Motorcycles/step-through 513,209 501,592 477,901 7.4
Mopeds 35,286 32,944 33,892 4.1
Electric 2-wheelers 958 500 1,173 (-) 18.3
Three-wheelers 28,274 26,916 29,012 (-) 2.5
.
Total 852,872 806,238 789,041 8.1
Exports 114,110 119,419 96,477 18.3
.
Apr-May Apr-May Yr-on-yr
2008-09 2007-08 change(%)
.
Commercial vehicles 68,565 64,176 6.8
of which
Medium and Heavy vehicle 37,274 35,372 5.4
Light vehicles 31,291 28,804 8.6
Passenger cars 209,483 181,206 15.6
Multi-purpose vehicles 17,307 12,614 37.2
Utility vehicles 45,169 35,196 28.3
.
Two-wheelers 1,263,396 1,175,395 7.5
of which
Scooters/scooterettes 178,907 164,417 8.8
Motorcycles/step-through 1,014,801 940,992 7.8
Mopeds 68,230 67,235 1.5
Electric 2-wheelers 1,458 2,751 (-) 47.0
Three-wheelers 55,190 54,557 1.2
Total 1,659,110 1,523,144 9.0
Exports 233,529 187,010 25.0