Maruti Suzuki car sales drop 47% in March; ends FY20 with 16% decline

Export sales were down 55 per cent to 4,712 units from 10,463 in the year-ago period

Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (MSIL), the country's largest passenger car manufacturer, on Wednesday reported 47 per cent year-on-year fall in its total sales during March to 83,792 units, as automakers in the country were forced to suspend operations amid a nationwide lockdown aimed to contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

With this, the company ended FY 2019-20 with total sales of 1.563 million units, down 16.1 per cent from 1.862 million in the previous fiscal.The sales during March 2020 are not comparable with sales in March 2019 due to suspension of operations from March 22 in line with national policy,