bengaluru toyota kirloskar motor said it expects its vehicle sales to remain flat this fiscal hurt by a ban on sale of diesel vehicles with engine capacity more than 2000 cc in delhi ncr one of its major markets in the country the supreme court and the national green tribunal ngt passed the verdict in december in an effort to reduce the level of extreme pollution in the countrys capital often dubbed as one of the most polluted cities in the world due to a large number of vehicles and other factors we could have grown about 1012 this year but will not due to delhi diesel ban which is the pain point for us last year we sold about 140000 vehicles and hope to finish at similar numbers vice chairman vikram kirloskar told toi the ban on such vehicles in delhi has hurt the company badly which makes up about 13 of its sales toyota has a 5 market share in the country has 1 million customers and caters to just 35 of the car market due to its reliance on big vehicles such as innova kirloskar said the ban offered no solutions to the pollution levels of delhi because according to a study by iitkanpur trucks two wheelers and road dust were found to be the main pollutants rather than passenger vehicles and more specifically vehicles with more than 2000 cc engines i hope some sense comes out because through this there will be no effect if you ban new vehicles and keep old vehicles for longer time you are actually increasing levels of pollution according to kirloskar the government has to go with diesel vehicles if it was intent to bring down pollution carbon content emission in diesel is 56 times lower than petrol we also need more sophisticated diesel vehicles to comply with the bs vi emission norms which start from 2020 kirloskar was also unhappy of the cess that the government introduced in the last union budget we are paying 4050 of vehicle price as tax which is being overtaxed i still dont think the entire taxation makes sense he said adding that a reduction in tax and increase of volumes will help the auto industry create an additional one million jobs by avik das tnn published on jun 24 2016 at 0828 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 download etauto app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app toyota toyota kirloskar motor supreme court union budget national green tribunal vikram kirloskar ngt sc