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India's Best-Selling PVs – January 2019 | Maruti Alto leads the charge, Dzire and Swift in close battle

Even as demand grows for premium hatchbacks, the appeal of the entry-level Alto remains unmatched.

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India's Best-Selling PVs – January 2019 | Maruti Alto leads the charge, Dzire and Swift in close battle

The popular entry-level Alto hatchback maintains its lead for the second month even as Maruti Suzuki continues to rule supreme with seven cars in the best-sellers’ chart.   

As the Indian automotive industry tries to overcome the slowdown it has witnessed in the recent months, the onset of a new year has also not done much for the passenger vehicle segment, where sales in the month of January remained rather bleak too. Of the overall industry volumes of 2,019,331 units in January 2019, a 4.68 percent year-on-year decline, PV numbers stood in the red with 280,125 units going home ...

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