Maruti Suzuki posts 13.5% sales growth in December

Maruti Suzuki India, the largest carmaker in the country, has registered good numbers last month. The company says its domestic sales rose 13.5 percent in December 2015 to 111,333 units as against 98,109 units in December 2014.

Sales of passenger cars increased 11.6 percent to 91,043 units as compared to 81,564 units in December 2014.  The entry level duo of the Alto and WagonR sold a total of 37,234 units, up 7.5 percent year on year (December 2014: 34,625). Meanwhile the five copmact cars (Swift, Ritz, Celerio, Baleno and Dzire) together sold 47,354 units, up 14 percent (December 2014: 41,532). The premium Baleno seems to be giving sales a new fillip.

Ciaz sales (which are clubbed with the now-discontinued SX4) however were down 23.9 percent, with the carmaker selling 2,841 units (December 2014: 3,731).

Sales of utility vehicles, including the Gypsy, Grand Vitara, Ertiga and the S-Cross rose 58.8 percent to 9,168 units in December 2015 (December 2014: 5,774).

Meanwhile, sales of the Omni and Eeco vans rose 3.3 percent to 11,122 units in December 2015 (December 2014: 10,771).

Exports during the month declined 33.1 percent to 7,816 units (December 2014: 11,682).

On the cumulative April-December 2015 sales front, Mauti Suzuki has sold a total of 971,958 units, marking an increase of 13.9 percent (April-December 2014: 853,532). Given the pace of its sales this fiscal, the carmaker will easily cross the domestic million sales mark in January 2016 and looks set to cross its 2014-15 sales of 12,92,415 units, when it notched 11.9 percent growth over 2013-14.

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