Hyundai Creta gets over 100,000 bookings, to ramp up production

Hyundai Motor India has announced that its Creta SUV has crossed the 100,000 bookings milestone, within eight months of its launch in July 2015.

In the domestic market, the company has sold a total of 47,477 Cretas from June 2015 to January 2016, 38,475 of them being diesel-engined. 

Commenting on the milestone, YK Koo, managing director and CEO, HMIL, said, “As in the domestic market, the Creta has generated great response in global markets with more than 28,000 orders. To reduce the waiting period, we are increasing production by 30% to 13,000 units of which 10,000 units will be allocated for the domestic market.”

Other than India, the company says the Creta has also received a good response in Latin America (Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru and Panama), Middle East (Oman, UAE, Saudi) and Africa (Egypt, Morocco and Nigeria).

Hyundai Motor India has in the April 2015-February 2016 period sold a total of 443,123 cars in the domestic market, marking growth of 16.26% year on year. On the export front, it has shipped 151,970 cars, a decline of 16.04%.