India’s largest car manufacturer Maruti Suzuki reported a 33.3% rise in sales in January 2010 compared to the same period last year. Maruti’s January 2010 sales stood at 95,649. Maruti Suzuki’s exports stood at 14,562. For the period April-January, sales saw a healthy growth at 31.8% to 8,26,592 units over the same period last year.
In Jan 2010, Maruti’s once best-seller, the 800 manages to sell just 2494 units which was a 55% fall over the same period last year. Clearly, Maruti’s other models and especially the Alto have taken over from this long time warrior that will be soon put to rest in the metros. Maruti’s rest of the hatchback lineup consisting of Alto, Wagon-R, Zen, Swift, Ritz and A-Star grew 24.8 per cent at 58,540 units over January 2009.
Sale of models in its mid-sized (A3) segment comprising SX4 and Dzire rose 36.5 percent to 8,995 cars in January this year. Clearly, Dzire is a mega hit for Maruti while the response to the SX4 remains lukewarm.
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