Tata Motors global sales up by 4% in December

The Dollar Business Bureau

Indian auto major, Tata Motors Ltd informed on Tuesday that its global sales have increased by 4% at 95,081 units in the month of December, which include that of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR). 

In the same month in 2015, a Tata Group company had sold 91,762 units, Tata Motors said in a statement.

The cumulative sales for the fiscal stood at 8,22,807 units, an increase of 9%, over the previous fiscal of 2015-16.

In the passenger vehicles segment, the company’s global sales stood at 64,202 units in December compared to 59,287 units during the corresponding period in 2015, an increase of 8%. During the entire fiscal, the company sold 5,38,126 passenger vehicles, a rise of 6%, as compared to previous financial year.

The sales of luxury model Jaguar Land Rover increased by 4% to 53,063 units in December as against 50,972 units in the same period of 2015. And the cumulative sales for Jaguar Land Rover for the financial year stood at 4,22,294 vehicles.

In the commercial vehicles category, sales have declined by 5% to 30,879 units compared to 32,475 units in the same month a year ago. However, overall sales of commercial vehicles for the current fiscal were 2,84,681 units, up by 4%, compared to  2015-16.