new delhi sep 1 major automobile manufacturers including maruti suzuki india hyundai mahindra mahindra tata motors and honda on sunday reported a high doubledigit decline in their sales in august as the indian auto sector continued to reel under one of the worst slowdowns in its history while maruti reported a 33 per cent drop in august sales at 106413 units sale of passenger vehicles by tata motors fell 58 per cent during the month under review similarly honda cars india and toyota kirloskar motor tkm sales dropped 51 per cent and 21 per cent respectively commenting on the sales performance tata motors president passenger vehicles business unit mayank pareek said the market continued to be challenging but the company has focused on improving its retail sales which saw an uptick of 42 per cent the countrys largest carmaker maruti suzuki india reported a 327 per cent decline in sales at 106413 units in august domestic sales declined by 343 per cent at 97061 units last month as against 147700 units in august 2018 it added sales of compact segment including models such as swift celerio ignis baleno and dzire fell 239 per cent at 54274 units as against 71364 cars in august last year mahindra and mahindra mm total sales dipped to 36085 units in august as against 48324 units in the corresponding month last year in the domestic market sales were down 26 per cent to 33564 units last month compared to 45373 units in august 2018 in the passenger vehicle segment which includes utility vehicles cars and vans mm sold 13507 units last month as compared to 19758 vehicles in the same month of 2018 a drop of 32 per cent in the commercial vehicle segment the company sold 14 684 vehicles as against 20326 units a year ago down 28 per cent similarly honda cars india ltd hcil domestic sales dropped to 8291 units in august as against 17020 units in the same month last year the auto sector continues to witness high degrowth due to poor consumer sentiment hcil senior vice president and director sales and marketing rajesh goel said in a statement this is despite the high discounts prevailing in the market which makes it the best time to buy cars he added hyundai motor india domestic sales contracted by 1658 per cent to 38205 units toyota kirloskar motor too reported a decline in total sales at 11544 units in august sales in the domestic market stood at 10701 units as compared to 14100 units in august 2018 down 24 per cent tkm deputy managing director n raja said the consumer sentiment continues to be muted in the month of august with customers deferring their purchase of vehicles severe floods across states has also hurt the demand in the industry unfavourable exchange rate is not helping our cost he however said the recent measures announced by finance minister nirmala sitharaman to boost the auto sector with cheaper car loans improving liquidity through