India's Best-Selling UVs – January 2019 | Maruti Vitara Brezza rules, Creta sees surging demand

The utility vehicle (UV) segment, once the powerhouse of the passenger vehicle segment in India, has been caught in a bind for sometime now, impacted by factors such as fuel efficiency of these relatively heavier vehicles becoming important to customers in times of fuel price uncertainty. Also, vehicle buyers are wary of making new purchases at this juncture as the country nears general elections in May.

Even as all of these factors could be seen hampering UV growth where the sub-segment sold 82,772 units in January (January 2018: 85,840 / -3.57%) and constituted close to 30 percent of the ...