The passenger vehicles segment recorded a growth of 4.36 percent in April 2009. Passenger cars grew by 4.20 percent, Utility Vehicles by 0.54 percent and Multi Purpose Vehicles by 15.52 percent in this period.
The automobile industry started the year with growth in both overall production and domestic sales in the month of April 2009 over the same month last year with production growing at 10.19 percent and domestic sales by 10.76 percent. This was mainly because of good performance of the Two Wheeler segment.