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India's Best-Selling UVs – April 2019 | Vitara Brezza maintains lead, Ertiga notches 42% growth

While both passenger cars and vans recorded a high double-digit decline in sales, demand for utility vehicles helped reduce the blow to some extent.  

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India's Best-Selling UVs – April 2019 | Vitara Brezza maintains lead, Ertiga notches 42% growth

Utility vehicles, which have been the movers and shakers in the passenger vehicle industry for quite some time, have lately been seeing a rough patch filled with sales speedbreakers in the form of rising fuel prices, uncertainty in the longevity of diesel fuel and high acquisition costs.

Selling a UV over its hatchback or sedan sibling rings the profit bells for most car companies, but tough times seem to be coming up for OEMs. The UV segment, which was accelerating at over 20 percent by end-FY2018, came down crashing this March to a meagre 2 percent with people ...

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