Sleek launches, improved production expected to utilize car gross sales this festive season

Reported By: | Edited By: DNA Web Crew |Provide: PTI |Updated: Aug 07, 2022, 03: 33 PM IST

The auto alternate expects car gross sales to be on the brief lane this festive season on the abet of new launches and improved production but is cautiously optimistic on the motorway ahead once the festivities peter out.

The festive season, which normally witnesses a spike in automobile gross sales, begins this one year on August 11 with Rakshabandhan stretching up to Diwali on October 25.

“We demand the festive season this one year to be the precise by passenger car gross sales on the abet of new launches and improved production process. The alternate has been rolling out over 3 lakh units on an moderate in the previous 4-5 months which helps in retails,” automobile vendor’s body President Vinkesh Gulati told PTI in an interaction.

He listed erratic monsoon in some intention of the country, inflationary pressures and the looming possibility of a China-Taiwan battle as one of the most well-known challenges to search out out about out for in the days ahead.


FADA represents over 15,000 automobile dealers across the country. Kia India Vice President and Head of Sales & Advertising Hardeep Singh Brar acknowledged that provide chain problems are truly showing signs of easing off, and market sentiments stay bullish.

“We’re optimistic that a ethical festive season is earlier than us by gross sales,” he added.


Tata Motors President Passenger Car and Electric Vehicles Shailesh Chandra acknowledged the corporate does no longer gaze a venture relating to the customer predict of except the cease of the festive season.

In an analyst name, he acknowledged that the automaker expects the auto provide to enhance with better semiconductor availability in the second quarter. “Going forward the challenges we gaze is that the excessive inflation and former-time charge may possibly possibly possibly additionally launch impacting the auto predict of while there may possibly be now not any stress to this point because the second quarter is anxious,” he acknowledged.

As a ways as Tata Motors is anxious, the corporate stays centered on predict of technology activities, Chandra famed. Maruti Suzuki India Senior Executive Director (Advertising and Sales) Shashank Srivastava acknowledged the predict of appears to be authorized for the time being.

“We bear got to search out out about out for the retails, currently we’re digging conclusions essentially based entirely mostly on wholesales and on the pending bookings…Retail gross sales were no longer up to wholesales for the last few months… We additionally want to mirror how the financial system performs total and how the inflation and former-time charges cross,” he famed.

Buyer sentiment can reflect commerce on story of these components, he acknowledged.


Elaborating on the total performance of the alternate, he acknowledged that in the April-July duration this fiscal the passenger car alternate has witnessed a enhance of 33 per cent over the identical duration closing financial one year.

The PV sector has sold 12.53 lakh units this one year as compared with 9.41 lakh units closing one year, Srivastava acknowledged. He famed that before every part of April the alternate inventory was estimated to be around 1.20 units which has now gone up to about 2.12 lakh units for the explanation that wholesale has been exceeding the retails.

“Therefore now we must for all time be careful going forward as to the method it shows in the end market scenario. For the time being, as a result of the excessive pending funds, no topic is being produced is being pushed into the market,” he acknowledged.