The company’s hatchback WagonR moved up to the second spot during the period selling 86,939 units as against 84,660 units in the year-ago period, a growth of 2.69%. Maruti’s new models— premium hatchback Baleno with 54,947 and compact SUV Vitara Brezza at 50,859 units were eighth and ninth best selling models, with the list rounded off by Hyundai’s SUV Creta at 47,923 units as against 23,117 in April-September 2015-16. With six of its models in top ten best selling list, MSI maintained its share of 47.2% in the domestic passenger vehicles market. The company sold a total of 7,05,287 units in the April-September period this fiscal while the total industry passenger vehicles sales stood at 14,94,039 units. In the same period last year, the company’s market share was 47.29% selling 6,28,963 units out of an industry total of 13,29,874 units.

Source: Mint October 23, 2016 08:15 UTC