India’s largest automobile company by volume, Tata Motors, recorded a 10.96 per cent hike in total sales in March 2011. The company sold 83,363 units, as against 75,129 units in the same month in 2011. The company also published sales figures for the financial year 2010-11 today. The company posted a 25 per cent jump in total sales to 8,03,322 units, as against 6,42,664 units in previous fiscal, Tata Motors said in a statement.
Domestic sales of commercial vehicles were 49,753 units, a growth of 15 per cent, compared with the 43,264 units sold in March last year.
Sales of passenger vehicles, including distribution, in the domestic market were 29,543 units compared to the 29,867 vehicles sold last year. Sales of the company’s compact small car, the Nano, stood at 8,707 units during the month, a 85 per cent increase vis-a-vis the corresponding period of the preceding year.
The ‘Indica’ range reported sales of 6,937 units, down 40 per cent. The ‘Indigo’ family, with sales of 7,197 units, witnessed a dip of 5 per cent compare to the same month last year. The ‘Sumo’, ‘Safari’ and ‘Aria‘ models accounted for sales of 4,837 units, a jump of 24 per cent compared to March last year.
Export sales last month totaled 5,932 vehicles, grew by 45 per cent from the 4,105 units in March 2010.
This fiscal, Jaguar Land Rover sales continued their upward trend since launch in June 2009. Cumulative sales of Jaguar Land Rover vehicles in India during this fiscal rose more than threefold to 891 nos. from the 242 nos. in the corresponding period last year.
