Sales of motorcycle dropped 8.3 per cent and truck and bus sales was down 6 per cent respectively in March.
New Delhi: Car sales in India fell an annual 6.7 per cent in the financial year that ended in March, their first fall in a decade, and sales during March fell an annual 22.5 per cent, the fifth consecutive monthly slide, an industry body said on Wednesday.
Automakers sold 180,675 cars in India in March, according to data from the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), as sluggish economic growth continued to weigh on demand in the once-booming market.
Sales of motorcycles dropped 8.3 per cent in March to 779,878 vehicles, SIAM said, and showed flat growth over the financial year. Truck and bus sales were down 6 per cent in March at 84,956 vehicles, and fell 2 per cent during the year.
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