902799 units in the same period last year marking a decline of 6273 percenteven during the fiscal year 201314 high interest rates rising fuel prices and uncertain economic conditions hit sales of companies such as maruti suzuki india hyundai motor india mahindra mahindra mm and toyota kirloskar resulting in a 6 percent decline in passenger vehicles other than this the segment largely witnessed its sales rising every consequent year in the past decade marking a peak growth at 3370000 units in fy 201819 however a year later in fy 201920 sales volume fell by 18 percent when the segment reported unit sales below the 30lakh mark after crossing it for the first time in fy 201617 later in 2020 due to weak demand and the onset of the pandemic even the market leader maruti suzuki which sells one in every two cars sold in india witnessed a decline of about 60 percent being the largest producer of motorcycles across the world this segment dominates the domestic markettwowheelersthe twowheeler segment which is widely seen as an indicator of the health of semiurban and also the rural economy in india is the fastest growing in the industrybeing the largest producer of motorcycles across the world this segment dominates the domestic market it witnessed peak sales volumes in the fiscal year 201819 with 21180000 units sold domestically across the country even during fy 201314 when the industry ended the year with all other segments at a netnet decline twowheelers was the only positive segment in the entire auto industry and grew 731 percent to 1480000 unitsfor the past two months in 2020 too even though the motorcycle and scooter sales have been in red its demand has seen the fastest turnaround as compared to other categories of vehicleshowever riding on the overall economic stress and unprecedented scenario the segment can be seen going back 9 years with projected sales volumes of about 12018000 units in fy 202021 lower than that of 13409000 units clocked in fy 201112 april 2020 to july 2020 unit salesapril 2020 to march 2021 unit sales projected257446712018300looking at the sales so far the segment has reported a total of 2574467 units for the april to july period of fy 202021 while the motorcycle sales stand at 1788868 units for the past five months of this year scooter sales clocked 673295 units the rest consisted of mopeds and electric twowheelers as per the sales data for q1 fy 202021 the cv segment clocked a total of 31636 unit sales commercial vehiclesas a result of the economic slowdown drying up of infrastructure projects liquidity crunch revised axle norms and various other reasons the commercial vehicle segment was badly hit in fy 201920 this year too the segment continues to go into a free fall reflecting the worst performance in the overall auto salesapril 2020 to june 2020 unit salesapril 2020 to marc 2021 unit sales projected31636413000as per the sales data for q1 fy 202021 the segment clocked a total of