With sales of Maruti Suzuki reaching 100,000 in July this year, there are hopes that passenger cars are getting back on track earlier than many analysts had projected. But Chairman R C Bhargava, in an interview with Surajeet Das Gupta, puts these numbers in perspective and says they are nowhere near normal sales and demand cannot be predicted for the coming months. Edited excerpts:
What explains the surge in July sales, which are close to what you were doing last year in the same month?
There is pent-up demand. After all, there has been a long lockdown from the end