Suraj

The opening month of April has always been an average month for every manufacturer. Many buyers pre-pone their buying to month of March, just to avail financial benefits and increased cost post budget. This is the reason why graphs and arrows went down and red everywhere in April month’s figures.

The Big Picture – Total April sales stood at 218,624 units only, suffering 22% loss as compared to month of March. Every company took their share and recorded negative trend. This can be seen as after effect of budget and financial year ending. Maruti felt below 1 lakh mark first time in 2012. Also at number 3, Tata lost badly and is now marginally close to Mahindra by almost 2k units. Once again Honda seems to be losing the pace and is down by 35 %. Same is the case with Germans.

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Nano Diesel Filling Fuel photo

As soon as the 2012-2013 Union Budget arrived, every company’s dreams got re-fueled by diesel ofcourse. The diesel car projects which have been derailed for a while now are back on track in full throttle. The most awaited and most discussed diesel car since long time – Tata Nano Diesel has finally showed up. Every other Nano with temporary plates were being stamped as diesel and was creating news for every one of us. But this time thanks to Rohan, a reader of IndianAutosBlog.com, the Tata Nano Diesel was caught on test. This time the proof can be seen in the image clearly. Nano was standing at a fuel station in front of a diesel pump! Now this is solid proof of the Nano diesel doing test rounds and its launch is near but no sooner than early 2013. [click to continue…]

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Month of March, as anticipated was a bestseller for all car manufacturers. Sales figures of every company pointed towards sky, sadly except for Fiat. Our FinMin created an atmosphere such that everyone was in hurry to grab their cars at old prices. Also Bubble created about extra duty on diesel cars also reflected in sales, as many diesel cars like Polos, Ventos, Sunny, Ritz shown rise in sales. Also as icing on the cake, the auspicious day of Gudhi Padwa (Hindu New Year) turned many car buyers to turn to showrooms. Hence we saw rise in sales of small cars as well. Let’s go through the figures to get some clear picture. [click to continue…]

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Maruti Suzuki Ertiga On The Way

by Suraj April 4, 2012

in Maruti Ertiga

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We have been updating you about the Maruti Suzuki Ertiga since a long time. Recently we spotted the Ertiga doing a TVC shoot and finally we have confirmed news that deliveries to dealers has started. From last week of Maruti finally started rolling out Ertigas to dealers pan India and the company has dispatched 1117 units in March 2012. As diesel variants are also on the cards (first diesel MUV for Maruti Suzuki), company was waiting for budget to arrive. As a sigh of relief, budget came with no extra duties being levied on diesel cars and as soon as the budget came out Maruti Suzuki started the process of launching Ertiga with no further delay. [click to continue…]

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There is no better way to analyze the market than doing it with numbers. Numbers will give us clearer figure of the market. Where it is going? Who gained and who lost? Which is the current hot favorite? and who is the market leader and who lags behind all? We are trying to analyze our country’s four wheel market.

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If we see the gross sales figures of main volume sellers, we will find total sales for the month of Feb 2012 stood at 2,60,053 units with 7.13% increase compared to 2,42,738 units of Jan 2012. Among top three, with Maruti Suzuki leading the top spot by selling 1,07,653 units followed by Hyundai which sold 36,805 units and to take the Third spot Tata Motors managed to sell 34,832 units. Maruti Suzuki and Hyundai showed 6.54% and 8.57% increase while Tata Motors showed almost no increase on MoM (Month on Month) basis.

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Among the rest, after recovering from natural calamities, remarkable change in sales volume was recorded by Honda with almost four fold increase in sales of February with 8856 units compared to January’s 1784 units. Another Japanese automaker Toyota is facing problem on all fronts. While MUV Innova lost some numbers despite being upgraded, Toyota’s Made for India products Etios is taking downturn as people came across many facts and its built to cost quality.

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Skoda showed 22% growth, thanks to its new entrant Rapid. On the other hand Volkswagen showed growth in sales with help of its hot favorite Polo but Vento sales went neutral taking the hit from its sister Rapid.

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Nissan managed to clock their highest sales numbers as Sunny diesel continued its strong march with the Micra also performing quite well. But the case with Renault was little disappointing, as sales fell down by almost 24%. Main reason is the higher pricing of Pulse as compared to Micra.

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Finally, it was a mixed month for two of the American auto giants as Chevrolet showed growth of 8% as Beat diesel and Spark clocking some rise in sales. Also after long time Tavera being launched in new BS IV compliant variant was sold in numbers close to 2000 units. But for reasons unknown, Ford lost numbers on all fronts. Especially Endeavor which managed only 23 units and sadly Figo also lost some 1000 units than previous month.

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Top 20 Sellers

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Key Highlights of TOP 20 Charts

- Alto and Swift continues to top the chart with huge volumes.
- With new model launched and ramped up deliveries Dzire sales shot up by almost 200%.
- A wannabe Alto of India, Eon suddenly crossed 10k mark. But still long way to go.
- Continues efforts from Tata is slowing showing up as Nano sales crossed 9k figure.
- All other Tata vehicles had decline in sales.

Gainers Vs Losers

This is how models gained and lost their ranks in sales.

Gainers: Top gainers have all Honda cars in there. The reason we know, as Honda started to operate and deliver in full strength. While Volvo also made some upturn in sales.

Losers: Loser list is full of premium category vehicles except A-star and Endeavor. It seems that the Endeavour is another prey to the Mahindra XUV500. A-Star faces lost interest of buyers as well as competition from its own siblings as well as from other companies.

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Segment wise Break-up

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Mercedes A For photo

When we see a Three Pointed Star symbol on a car, we instantly get a distinct feel of premium luxury and exclusiveness. Mercedes-Benz is a brand that is recognized world over for the variety of luxury cars it offers. From the A-Class to the super luxurious S-Class. Some might ask what makes Mercedes a “Mercedes”?? Why to pay such a huge amount for a car? So Mercedes has come up with AnswerS! [click to continue…]

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To challenge the dominance of Volvo into bus market, Mercedes-Benz made its foray into intercity bus business two years ago. And today on the 9th of March it entered another territory of Intra City public transport bus. Mercedes, which according to them has 25% of market share into intercity bus business, now want to enlarge its footprint with C125 RLE City bus. The launch happened at Mercedes-Benz’ plant at Chakan, Pune. [click to continue…]

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Pre-Budget Blues – Diesel Dilemma

by Suraj February 28, 2012

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Ever since the Government de-regulated the petrol prices it gave rise to dilemma about diesel. Indian Government is at the road cross and looking confused about which way to proceed. Because one road heads towards manipulating diesel cost which adds fuel into burning issue of inflation and the other road heads to levying extra duty on diesel cars which will attract heavy resistance from many big guns from companies and consumers as well. But whatever may be the result, it has created cause of concern for diesel car manufacturers and customers as well. One day I saw one article pasted all over the glass of one car dealership. That article was showing newspaper headlines shouting about likely price hike of diesel cars post budget. When we dig in deeper many aspects about this hike unfolded. [click to continue…]

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Please Stand In ‘Queue’

February 17, 2012

Recently the Mahindra XUV500 created a buzz, once again, when it received booking scaling more than one year of their manufacturing capacity. Many people, including Mahindra, saw it as the best thing which can happen to any product. There are some more products in the same league like the Maruti Suzuki Swift, Swift DZire, Toyota [...]

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Tata Manza Nova Concept Is Feature Loaded

February 8, 2012

The word Nova stands for a star becoming extra brighter suddenly; similarly Tata wants to add some extra luxury, feature and technology to their star the Manza sedan. Tata showcase Manza with its full glory by putting in many luxury elements inside cabin. Distinct Spanish Tan color and sophisticated and attractive alloys outside are only [...]

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