Continuing with strong sales momentum, leading auto makers -- except Tata Motors -- today reported double-digit growth in November, although they did not break the record levels of the previous month.
While Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai, Hero Honda and Mahindra & Mahindra registered double digit increase in sales, Tata Motors recorded only 1 per cent jump over the same month last year.
The country's largest car maker Maruti Suzuki crossed the one lakh units sales mark for the second consecutive month by selling 1,02,503 vehicles in the domestic market in November, up 34.2 pc from the year ago period. In the same month last year, it had sold 76,359 units.
Although on a small base, Ford saw about three-fold increase in sales at 7,504 units on the back of good response to its latest small car Figo.
"The sales numbers released by auto companies today are in line with our expectations, although they were below record levels seen in October," Angel Broking Auto Analyst Vaishali Jajoo told PTI.
Jajoo said the only exception was Tata Motors, which witnessed 85 per cent dip in sales of its people's car Nano to 509 units. "There were some supply chain issues in case of Nano which could be one of the reasons for dip in the sales of the car," she added.
Tata Motors' total passenger and commercial vehicle sales in the domestic market stood at 50,419 units in November, which was a jump of 1 per cent from the sale of 50,114 units in the same month last year.
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The country's second-largest carmaker Hyundai Motor India reported a 12 per cent jump in domestic sales for the month at 31,540 units as compared to 28,162 units in November 2009.
"Spurred by the festive season demand in November, HMIL continued to maintain steady growth in the domestic market although we were constrained because of the maintenance shutdown of both our plants," HMIL Director (Marketing and Sales) Arvind Saxena said in a statement.
Sales of General Motors (GM) climbed 17.67 per cent to 8,376 units in November this year compared to 7,118 units in the same month last year.
Mahindra & Mahindra reported 18 per cent jump in total sales in November at 26,666 units.
On the two-wheeler front, market leader Hero Honda's sales jumped 10.48 per cent to 4,21,366 units during the month as compared to 3,81,378 units in November 2009.
"The 4-lakh plus sales consistently recorded over the past seven months has imparted an excellent momentum to our sales for the rest of the year," Hero Honda Motors Senior Vice-President (Marketing and Sales) Anil Dua said.
Driven by strong demand across segments, Chennai-based TVS Motor Company reported sales of 1,57,041 units in November, 29 per cent higher than the same month last year.
India Yamaha Motor posted 23.2 per cent increase in sales for the month at 30,310 units and Suzuki Motorcycle India saw 77 per cent growth at 25,439 units compared to 14,393 units in November last year.
Similarly, Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India (HMSI) posted 14 per cent jump in sales at 1,29,627 units, compared to 1,13,489 in November last year.
In case of Mahindra & Mahindra, the company's two-wheeler sales jumped by 125 per cent at 15,854 units in November, as against 7,020 units in the same period previous year.
In the commercial vehicles segment, Volvo Group-Eicher Motors joint venture--VE Commercial Vehicles recorded a 18 per cent jump in monthly sales to 2,703 units in November.
Mahindra & Mahindra's Farm Equipment Sector division reported a 43 per cent increase in tractor sales in November to 17,993 units.