car sales: Volvo says car sales in India jumped 31 per cent at 2,423 units in CY2023

Swedish car maker Volvo Cars on Friday said its total car sales in India witnessed a 31 per cent yearly jump at 2,423 units in calendar year 2023, driven by the XC60 model. Volvo Car India had retailed 1,851 cars in the domestic market in 2022 calendar year, the company said in a statement. The … Read more

car sales: Fantastic four – Hyundai, Tata, M&M and Toyota – fire up Motown, drive into record books

New Delhi: In a record year for car sales, only four companies – Hyundai, Tata Motors, Mahindra & Mahindra and Toyota – hit new highs, amid weak demand at the lower end of the market. Market leader Maruti Suzuki got to 1.71 million units, but that was still short of its pre-Covid record of 1.73 … Read more

India’s record car sales in 2023: Here’s a look under the hood

India’s passenger vehicle market, valued at Rs 4.5 lakh crore, has been outpacing volume growth. It has just passed a milestone as annual volumes of cars, sedans and utility vehicles breached the four million mark for the first time in 2023. As per industry estimates, about 4.1 million passenger vehicles were sold in the local … Read more

Sales of Indian SUVs soar, smaller cars skid in December

Sales of sports utility vehicles (SUVs) rose in December, while small car sales fell despite high discounts, data from Indian automakers showed on Monday. While entry-level vehicles remain a millstone around automobile makers’ necks, they have benefited from the sales of premium vehicles, catering to a more well-off demographic largely unaffected by inflation. Maruti Suzuki … Read more

Efforts to boost localisation adding on to revenue of component firms

India’s love for larger, feature-rich vehicles, coupled with efforts being undertaken by stakeholders to deepen localisation, is turning into a boon for local autos parts makers with component sales in the country surging to a whopping $ 36.1 billion in the first six months of the current financial year. An increase in value of sales … Read more