Maruti Suzuki Sales Drop 6.7% In 2020-21, 1.67 Lakh Units Sold In March

Maruti Suzuki reported its month-to-month auto gross sales on Thursday, April 1, and posted whole gross sales of 1.67 lakh items, up virtually 99 per cent in comparison with 83,792 items within the corresponding month final yr. In an announcement, the nation’s largest carmaker acknowledged that the home gross sales in monetary yr 2019-20 declined 18 per cent and gross sales in fiscal 2020-21 had been impacted attributable to COVID-19. Maruti Suzuki’s whole gross sales, together with home and export, dropped 6.7 per cent in monetary yr 2020-21, in comparison with the sooner fiscal of 2019-20. 

In March 2020, Maruti Suzuki’s home gross sales dropped 48 per cent attributable to COVID-19 disruptions, and the home gross sales reported final month recovered to March 2019 ranges. 24,653 items of mini passenger automobiles together with Alto, S-Presso had been offered final month, in comparison with 15,988 items in the identical month final yr.

82,201 items of compact passenger automobiles together with WagonR, Swift, Celerio, Ignis, Baleno, Dzire, Tour S had been offered final month, in comparison with 40,519 items within the corresponding month final yr. 1,628 items of mid-sized Ciaz had been offered in March 2021, in comparison with 1,863 items offered in the identical month final yr. Overall, the overall home gross sales, together with passenger car gross sales and light-weight business automobiles stood at 149,518 items lats month, in comparison with 76,976 items within the year-ago interval.