India's Best-Selling Scooters – April 2019 | Activa on top but sales slump, NTorq beats Hero Destini in battle of 125s
Once a booming segment, scooters are now feeling the heat of slowing sales. In April, total despatches of 489,852 units meant substantial de-growth of 26 percent.
Sales of the scooter segment, which is bearing the brunt of the slowdown in the two-wheeler market, slumped 26 percent in April 2019 to 489,852 units (April 2018: 661,007 units / +12.63%).
Like Maruti Suzuki is to the passenger vehicle industry, Honda is to the scooter market. The sharp fall in demand for the country’s best-selling scooter – the Activa – is impacting overall scooter industry numbers and how.
While the Honda Activa remains the No. 1 by far, its sales of 210,961 units are a far cry from the year-ago sales of 339,878 units in April 2018. ...
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