The nation's biggest traveller vehicle producer Maruti Suzuki India Ltd has seen its traveller vehicle

deals inch up by 3.4 percent during 2013-14 budgetary year however its complete deals, including
sends out, declined 1.4 percent during 2013-14 FY contrasted with the past financial.

The organization has recorded a 6.4 percent drop in traveller vehicle deals during March 2014 and its
absolute deals fell 5.5 percent (domestic+ sends out) in March this year contrasted with the very
month a year ago.

Mini, compact segment sales

Maruti saw a drop of 11 percent in deals in the scaled down portion to 40,085 units a month ago
against 45,047 units in March 2013 with four models in this fragment M800, Alto, A-Star and
WagonR.

However, its compact segment sales, where it has Swift, Estilo, Ritz and Celerio models, jumped 9.3
per cent to 28,285 units (25,868 units)

Super compact car Dzire sales were down 14.1 per cent to 17, 237 vehicles from 20,078 vehicles in
March 2013 and midsize SX4 sales were down 54.5 per cent to 411 units during last month (903
units).

Total passenger car sales were down 6.4 per cent to 86,018 units in March this year from 91,896
units in the same month last year.

Domestic, export sales

Maruti reported domestic sales of 1,02,269 units during March, a decline of 5.2 per cent compared
with 1,07,890 units in the same month last year.

Exports also declined by eight per cent to 11,081 units in March against 12,047 units in the
corresponding month last year, a company statement said.

Total sales (domestic and export) were down 5.5 per cent to 1,13,350 units in March this year
(1,19,937 units).

Full-year sales
For the full year (2013-14 FY), the company sold 8,90,455 passenger cars, up by 3.4 per cent from
8,61,337 cars sold during the previous fiscal (2012-13 ).

Total domestic sales at 10,53,689 units after taking into account sales of utility vehicles and vans that
declined, marked a 0.3 per cent increase over the previous fiscal’s 10,51,046 units.

Export sales were down 15.8 per cent to 1,01,352 units (1,20,388 units) and the total sales, including
exports, declined marginally 1.4 per cent to 11,55,041 units in 2013-14 FY from 11,71,434 units in
the previous fiscal.

The year was notable for Maruti because of phasing out of its iconic M800 model. The company also
launched WagonR Stingray and Celerio, the latter with the auto gear shift.