vehicle sales across categories registered a strong uptick last month reflecting the positive consumer spirit during the ongoing festive period the countrys leading car makers clocked doubledigit growth in sales despite the recent increase in cess by the governmentgerman carmaker volkswagen for instance reported 1715 increase in wholesale volumes at 4603 units in september the advent of the festive season during 2017 saw major changes in the applicable tax structure and discussions on various policies for the industry in spite of this mixed bag of changing customer sentiments we have registered a growth of 1715 in this season over the same period last year said steffen knapp director volkswagen passenger cars volkswagen group sales india volkswagen also announced the start of production for its new passat at its aurangabad facility in maharashtra and the carline is scheduled to be launched in the ongoing quarter maruti suzuki the countrys largest carmaker posted a growth of 10 in september to cross a milestone of 15 lakh again hyundai motor india too breached the sales milestone of 50000 units in september this year with a growth of 17 led by the newgen verna tata motors recently launched nexon helped the company post an 18 rise in sales to 17286 units while good offtake of crossover wrv helped honda cars india register a strong growth of 22 in september however septembers growth is on expected lines as many of the car makers pushed inventory ahead of navratri and diwali celebrations whats reassuring though is that the higher cess imposed by the government on bigger cars too has been limited also read festive season new offerings push september auto sales higher while motorcycle sales at bajaj auto bal went up by 7 to 247418 units suzukis twowheelers volumes grew by 37 to a record 50785 units during september royal enfield too sustained its double digit momentum it had been notching up this year with a growth of 22 at 69393 units in september hero motocorp will report its wholesale performance tuesday but the company said that it has retailed more than a million units during the festive season so far on the commercial vehicle front ve commercial vehicles saw its sales rise by 229 to 5233 units last month while sales of eicher branded trucks and buses went up by 226 to 5084 units those of volvo branded products rose to 149 units against 109 units sold in the yearago period pickup in infrastructure development strict checks on overloading of commercial vehicles helped tata motors grow by 29 to 36679 units in september etauto published on oct 3 2017 at 0836 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