India’s largest automobile company Tata Motors registered 13 per cent growth in sales for the month of April 2011 riding on good response for its small wonder Tata Nano. The company sold 64,383 units last month compare to 57,199 units sold in April 2010, Tata Motors said in a statement. Nano crossed 10,000 sales mark for the first time.
In April, the homegrown firm registered a 1.24 per cent increase in passenger vehicle sales in the domestic market to 23,387 units from 23,099 units in the same period last year, the company said in a statement.
During the month, small car Nano’s sales soared by 184 per cent to 10,012 units during April, it said.
The ‘Indica’ range reported sales of 4,250 units, down 53 per cent. The ‘Indigo’ family, with sales of 5,282 units, witnessed a dip of 27 per cent vis-a-vis the same month last year. The ‘Sumo’, ‘Safari’ and ‘Aria’ models accounted for sales of 3,843 units, up 15 per cent compared to April last year.
In the commercial vehicles segment, Tata Motors recorded a 19 per cent jump in domestic sales in April to 36,738 units.
