[volkman10]

Originally Posted by sleepyhead148

I'm interested to see how the new S-Cross would be received by in-market buyers considering that the 1.6 MJD is now history and the 1.3 is a SHVS engine.

There would hardly be any impact on S Cross sales considering that the DDiS320 was clocking ~165 units a month ( average of 4000 in 2 years)

[SJM1214]

It is going to be a very Happy Diwali for MSIL and it's Dealers. It seems like its raining Dzires. Recently I was visiting different accessories shop to finalize seat cover for my new MS Vitara Brezza. I found all the accessories shops were busy with brand new MS Dzires. Now, I am worried about the service quality of MASS, how will they cope with this much cars?

Great to see TATA Nexon's number, A competitor for MS Vitara Brezza is need of time. Let's see how TATA manages in upcoming months.

Good numbers by Verna. It seems some of the potential buyers of Ciaz & City went for Verna.

Not able to understand, what happened to Ford Endeavour?

[King_pin09]

“Come September”

With September bringing resurrection in sales of various capable cars inter-alia Verna, Kwid, Ecosport, Scorpio, Eon, Bolero, etc., which otherwise were slipping in numbers during past few months, this festive season seems to have taken off with flying colors.

Car makers now breathe a sigh of relief from the existing bookings and with Deepawali around; they can hope to carry forward this momentum during October as well.

Sorry to see the usual laggards continue enjoying leisure time in their back benches; even whilst their neighbors are minting season sales.

Verna: Perhaps the 6K plus of dispatches pertain to the initial bookings and it would be interesting to see where it stabilizes in the coming months. Good luck Hyundai.

Ecosport: I mean c’mon. Nearly 5k fresh cars rolling out on a car that is already 4+ years old is exemplary. It only shows how much we Indians love this baby SUV.

Kwid: The Magic is back. With close to 10K cars rolling out during September, Renault seem to be back in business.

Aspire: Although in proportion, the gained sales are in excess of 58% over the previous month, however the total units sold stand at a meager 2.2K. In my opinion this little rocket is capable of much better numbers. I sincerely hope this little ford machine gains momentum from now on.

[Mad Max]

Happy to see Kwid doing good. What happened to Celerio? It just dropped in half.

Also, good to see the Figo twins doing well. Hopefully, next month we'll see a better run rate from Skoda.

It also feels like the folks who are shopping the sub-4m SUV segment are cross-shopping for the bigger SUVs like XUV. This will be interesting to see as it firms up.

[RaghuVis]

Originally Posted by Karthik Chandra

Automobile sales has reached new heights, crossed the 3 lacs mark



Hyundai dispatched 4779 units of Verna in Aug'17 which would have accounted for test drive and display vehicles. This month shipment is purely customer cars.

Agree. My point was that it's too soon to call them a segment leader with just one month dispatch figures. 6K is a good number and it deserves every accolade it is getting. My point is that the dispatch numbers of MSIL/Hyundai bear different results from others. Verna has 12 variants. Assuming there are 1000 showrooms, they would send at least 2 display cars, 2 diesel cars and 2 petrol cars TD in manual/auto combination to most of the dealers. That itself puts the number at 6000. The launch happened on 22nd Aug, Almost 45 days back. Assuming deliveries have already happened across the country, am sure showroom/TD vehicles would have been sent on both months with Aug dispatches having more TD's.

I sincerely hope Hyundai is able to sustain this for as long as possible. The vehicle deserves that.

[dragstar]

JEEP Compass doing 2000 numbers for the second month in a row is appreciable. But I wonder whose share of business is the Compass eating into?

The Innova Crysta & Fortuner is doing pretty well. So is the the Xuv5OO and Scorpio from Mahindra. The Creta is stabilized at the 9-10k mark. The C2 Sedans (Verna, City and Ciaz are pulling in the numbers. The D1 sedans are marginally down, but that doesn't add up to 2000. I wonder where is Jeep Compass getting its buyers from. Or is it a new hidden buyer base it has tapped into?

[sleepyhead148]

Originally Posted by Mad Max

Hopefully, next month we'll see a better run rate from Skoda.

I have my doubts about this. The Octavia, vRS and Rapid may be winners but the recent fraud at one of their dealerships has attracted a lot of negative press and has further deterred many prospective buyers from even visiting their showrooms. Also with the local press onto the issue, I think that run rate might actually go in the red.

Add to this, they've launched the Kodiaq at such a horrendous price that, as a ripple effect, Tiguan and Compass might end up benefiting from it.

[Latheesh]

Indian Passenger Car market explained in one picture. Talk about lion's share

orig pic by: G. “Rinaldino” Teichmann

[car.lover]

MSIL domination continues - but Ciaz seems to be slowing down, so again the 10L mark seems to be a serious hurdle for them.

Tata - good show on Tiago but Hexa selling below XUV and a much more expensive Fortuner would be disappointing to them for what is a fine product.

M&M - consistently this month again Bolero > Scorpio > XUV > TUV. The older the product the more successful it has been

Hyundai - good allround performance - though they need to put more effort into marketing the Tucson

Jeep - Compass is off to a good start, let's hope the momentum can be sustained.

[mrbaddy]

Originally Posted by car.lover

M&M - consistently this month again Bolero > Scorpio > XUV > TUV. The older the product the more successful it has been

You can add the KUV100 in there and formula still works.

[Thermodynamics]

Originally Posted by Latheesh

Indian Passenger Car market explained in one picture. Talk about lion's share

Lion's Dzire is ruthless!

Anyway survival of the fittest is evident in a few segments.

D1 Segment: Rise of Jeep Compass to 25% segment share. Juicy numbers by XUV500 despite the news of facelift coming up.

B1 Segment: Rise of Tiago to 8300 and the fall of Celerio to 4800

B2 Segment: 2770 Nexon in 9 days extrapolates to ~9500 for next month. That could move Tata to third position (~24000) overall market share pushing M&M (~23000) to fourth. Would be interesting to watch October numbers.

[SmartCat]

Originally Posted by Latheesh

Indian Passenger Car market explained in one picture. Talk about lion's share

Not visible in the pic, but there are some vultures (Kia Motors, Peugeot, MG Motors) hovering on top - waiting to swoop in for the scraps.

[cogWheel]

Originally Posted by Thermodynamics

B1 Segment: Rise of Tiago to 8300 and the fall of Celerio to 4800
...
B2 Segment: 2770 Nexon in 9 days extrapolates to ~9500 for next month. That could move Tata to third position (~24000) overall market share pushing M&M (~23000) to fourth. Would be interesting to watch October numbers.

The Tiago-Celerio numbers maybe unrelated. The drop in the Celerio dispatches may have to do with the launch of facelift that was anticipated this month (http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/indian...ml#post4281712)

The Nexon extrapolation is too simplistic. Most of those 2700 dispatches would be demo and test drive cars for dealerships. True numbers would emerge over the next couple of months.

[Amartya]

Originally Posted by cogWheel

The Nexon extrapolation is too simplistic. Most of those 2700 dispatches would be demo and test drive cars for dealerships. True numbers would emerge over the next couple of months.

Absolutely on the money. Tata has also followed a slower production ramp-up for it's new launches (Tiago onwards), and I'd expect 3000 - 4000 units for the next couple of months. This slower ramp-up helps them figure out which variants are popular, and gives the vendors time to get their quality right.

[srishiva]

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