Momentum continues - April 2010 Automative sales figures

The April month carried a good momentum in sales form YoY basis however, the sales numbers are lower from Month on Month. Rising raw material cost and gas prices are being passed to the customer, however it appears to be the market has some more room to take this cost.

The highlight of the sales is for Ford and GM with their new aggressively priced models Figo, Beat. Both Companies are now ramping up production to meet the demand by adding second shifts. The higher sales in these models have also eaten away the share of Hundai Motors from i10, i20 space.

Honda has recorded a decline in sales consecutively since March 2010.

	Apr-10	Apr-09
Hundai Motors
growth	28.10%
sales	52020	44370
domestic	28501	22247
export	22123	23519
Maruti suzuki
growth	29.70%
sales	93058	71748
domestic	80034	64857
export	13024	6891
GM
growth	200%
sales	10601	4823
TATA motors
growth	52%
sales	57202	37518
cars	72.27%
sales	23102	13410
exports	3137	1261
lcv	17806	14245
M&HCV	13157	4869
cvs	30963	22847
M&M
growth	13.21%
sales	26043	23004
three wheeler
	5876	2972
utility vehicles	-2.43%
	17998	18447
logan	303	550
cv growth	32.72%
cv sales	860	648
exports	856	387
Honda
growth	-19.54%
sales	5928	7368
Toyota
growth	77%
cars, SUV	6001	3386
Ford
growth	270.00%
sales	7509	2034
Mercedes
growth	200%
sales	321	178