Car Sales Growth Yet To Gain Speed
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Take Maruti, which saw its sales grow 20% in July with 101,380 units. Compared to the June tally of 112,773, however, it's month-on-month sales graph is down 10%. Excluding exports, Maruti clocked 90,093 units in July down from 100,964 units in June. Similarly Hyundai saw a 12.7% growth in domestic sales at 29,260 units this July but compared to its June 2014 tally of 33514 units, it's down 12.7%. Even Honda, which has been in top-gear form thanks to the success of its new City and Amaze sedans, showed a month-on-month dip. It clocked 15,709 units in July, up 40% year-on-year. But compared to the June tally of 16306 units, sales are down nearly 4%. Overall, the passenger vehicles industry clocked 212,904 units in June compared to an estimated 215,000 units (the entire industry data is yet to be released) in July.
Automobile experts say there are several reasons for the M-o-M dip. For one, June brought the first quarter in the fiscal to a close hence vehicle manufacturers would have billed wholesale volumes aggressively to show better Q1 numbers. That would explain the spurt only in June volumes compared to both May and July. Said Pravin Shah, M&M's CEO-automotive division and international operations: "June is a quarter end which means big discounts which push up volumes. Also, at that point people were hopeful there would be no monsoon deficit so sentiments were betterBesides many companies took their annual shutdown in July."
There are other reasons for the June-July skew. Said Sumit Bali, executive VP, Kotak Mahindra Bank: "June numbers peaked because at that point everyone thought the excise cut would run out end of the month. The announcement about the benefits running on till year-end came in the last week of June."
Critically though auto experts say the current demand growth is driving on new models alone. "The companies that are doing well are the ones with successful new products," said Bali. That roster includes the likes of Maruti, Hyundai and Honda, all of which have successful new debutantes.
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