Tata Motors PV sales grow 31% in March

Homegrown auto major Tata Motors Sunday reported a 31% increase in passenger vehicle sales at 20266 units for March.

The company had sold 15433 units in the corresponding period of the last financial year.

Though passenger car sales for the company declined by 4%, demand in the utility vehicle segment more than trebled in the period under review clearly showing a trend of growing customer base for the UV segment.


Cumulative sales of passenger vehicles in the domestic market for the entire fiscal year (2017-18) grew by 22% to close at 187,321 units compared to 153,151 unit recorded the previous year.

In the commercial vehicle segment, Tata Motors continued to gain momentum growing by 37% to 49174 units. “This growth was on the back of government’s push towards infrastructure development, restriction on overloading, road construction and mining activities along with increasing demand from e-commerce & FMCG applications”, the company said in a statement.

The cumulative sales performance of commercial vehicles (April 2017 – March 2018) in domestic market was 399,318 units as against 325,211, a growth of 23%, over last year.