Sales momentum continues in May’10

The automotive sales momentum continued during the month of May in spite of increased prices.

Maruti hit records with per month sales of crossing 100,000 cars first in the history. Ford and GM continued their growth rate of over 150% with their Figo and Beat respectively.
Toyota has introduced a special edition of Innova for its 5th year since its most successful model in India.

The luxury segment also has seen a great momentum with Mercedes and Audi clocking over 100% growth.

Honda is the only company that again seen a negative growth.

TATA motor’s Sanand plant in Gujrat started rolling out the NANO which it hopes to cover the backlogs.

Hyundai motors caught in to an ugly row with labor dispute taking in to effect of closing the production for 2 successive days in June.

In June the Petrol and Diesel prices are rumored to be hiked by Rs3 could impact the sales. However the upbeat Indian services sector has over shadowed the inflation as people are upbeat in their spending.

	May-10	May-09
Hundai Motors
growth	7.00%
sales	46808	43624
domestic	27151	23503
export	19657	20121
Maruti suzuki
growth	29.70%
sales	102175	79872
domestic	90041	70785
export	12134	9087
GM
growth	61%
sales	8225	5109
TATA motors
growth	41%
sales	56799	40196
cars	39.00%
sales	21326	16563
exports	3978	1804
lcv	17615	13740
M&HCV	13860	5405
cvs	31475	23004
M&M
growth	69.00%
sales	28486	16866
three wheeler
	6641	2703
utility vehicles	19.00%
	18940	12620
logan	450	427
cv growth	17.00%
cv sales	1005	831
exports	1068	285
Ashok Leyland
growth	97%
sales	6502	1977
domestic	5973	1697
export	529	280
Honda
growth	-0.15%
sales	4067	4073
Mercedes
growth	112%
sales	410	193
Audi
sales	200	121
Toyota
growth	77%
cars, SUV	6050	3924
Ford
growth	300.00%
sales	8080	2168
Eicher
growth	44.00%
sales	2801	1233
domestic	2488	1128
exports	313	105