Tata Motors gears up to cross M&M in domestic passenger vehicle sales

Tata Motors' PV division has about 750 dealerships and the company plans to double it by 2020

Tata Motors, which recently overtook Japanese carmaker Honda to emerge as the fourth-largest player in the domestic passenger vehicles (cars, utility vehicles, and vans) market, says it could rise to the third spot by overtaking M&M any day. The country's largest automaker by revenue has narrowed the gap with Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) on the back of a strong double-digit growth in volumes. 

In the first half of FY19, Tata Motors' domestic PV sales has expanded over 31 per cent to 106,865 units (from 81,417 units last year) helped by products such as the Tiago and Nexon. By comparison, M&M’s