new delhi the cautious attitude of customers political uncertainty and negative shadow of tightened liquidity and higher insurance cost dragged down the new vehicle sales in all the four segments in the first month of fy20 overall indian automobile sales year on year declined by 1593 percent at 2001096 units in the month of april fy20 according to the data release by society of indian automobile manufacturers association siam for the first time in many years all segments production and domestic sales moved to red in the mentioned review periodwith expanding inventory total automobile production also dropped by 106 per cent in april 2019 compared to the same month a year ago the biggest production cut of 115 per cent was reported by twowheeler makers followed by 95 per cent production cut in commercial vehicle segment advt the wholesale of passenger vehicles dropped by 1707 percent at 247541 in april 2019 over the same month last year within the passenger vehicles the sales for passenger cars utility vehicle and vans declined by 1993 percent 667 percent and 3011 percent respectively in april 2019 over the same month last year this time even commercial vehicles cv segment which is considered as the backbone of economy failed to show any positive sign due to steep decline in core sectors like manufacturing and capital goods during the month under review cv segment fell by 598 percent at 68680 units as compared to 73049 units in the same month last year medium heavy commercial vehicles mhcvs declined by 1356 percent at 24725 units and light commercial vehicles lcv declined by 110 percent at 43955 units in april 2019 over the same month last year twowheelers sales registered a degrowth of 1636 percent in april 2019 over april 2018 within the two wheelers segment scooters motorcycles and mopeds declined by 2589 percent 1181 percent and 588 percent respectively in april 2019 over april 2018 the dropping sales of scooters clearly reflects the uncertainty in urban marketsthreewheelers sales also went down by 744 percent in april 2019 over the same month last year within the segment passenger carrier sales registered a degrowth of 924 percent and goods carrier declined by 017 percent in april 2019 over april 2018domestic salescategoryapril 2019april 2018 changepassenger vehicles2475412985041707commercial vehicles6868073409598twowheelers163838819587611636threewheelers4626249980744total domestic sales200109623802941593source society of indian automobile manufacturers association read alsocomplete auto sales analysis fy19 a roller coaster year for automakerscomplete sales auto analysis april 2019 all segment leaders in negative zone etauto published on may 13 2019 at 1121 am ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis