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Domestic passenger vehicle sales fall 7.6% in February, says Siam

Vehicle sales across categories registered a decline of 19.08 per cent to 1,646,332 units from 2,034,597 units in January 2019, it said.

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The figures showed that after nearly 11 months, auto retail sales turned green, excluding passenger vehicles, from red in the month of February.

T E Narasimhan Chennai
Domestic passenger vehicle sales dropped by around 7.61 cent to 251,516 units in February from 272,243 units in the same month a year ago, according to the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) data.
 
Passenger car sales were down by 8.77 per cent to 156,285 units against 171,307 units in February last year. The decline in wholesale dispatches is primarily due to the economic slowdown and lower production of BS-IV vehicles.

Total two-wheeler sales in February fell 19.82 per cent to 12,94,791 units compared to 16,14,941 units in the same month last year. Sales of commercial vehicles were down 32.9

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