Auto sales grew 14% in November

Trend expected to continue in December

Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai and Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) had double-digit growth in automobile sales for November, helping the industry report growth of a little over 14 per cent.

A key driver to this happened to be the low base of last November, when sales had grown by less than 2 per cent, owing to demonetisation. Hyundai, M&M and Honda had reported a sales decline (to dealers) last November. 

Maruti Suzuki, which sells every second car in the country, had 14 per cent growth in sales of passenger vehicles (cars, utility vehicles and vans), to 144,297 units last month. 

The company had also grown