Two utility vehicles have entered the list of top 10 selling passenger cars for the month of May – Toyota Innova Crysta and Maruti’s Vitara Brezza. With the sale of 7,259 units in May, Toyota Innova Crysta overtook Maruti Vitara Brezza and Hyundai Creta, to become the ninth best-selling vehicle as well as the top-selling utility vehicle for the month of May. The sales of Innova Crysta, which was launched at Rs13.83 lakh, helped Toyota to overtake the sales of Tata Motors passenger vehicles and Honda Cars in the month of May.
Vitara Brezza sold 7,193 units in the same period becoming the tenth best-selling vehicle. Vitara Brezza was launched in March 2016 and has entered the top 10 list for the first time. Maruti Suzuki secured 7 positions in the top 10 list with its Alto retaining the top position backed by the sales of 19,874 units. Dzire, reclaimed the second position in May after being pushed to fifth position in April this year. However, both Alto and Dzire registered a fall in the volume by 12% and 12.5% respectively. The other vehicles from Maruti Suzuki in the top 10 list are Baleno, Wagon R, Celerio and Swift.
Meanwhile, Hyundai Motors’ Grand i10 has overtaken its Elite i20 to become Hyundai's best-selling car in India. Grand i10 saw sales of 12,055 units in May, taking the fifth position while Elite i20 had to settle for the sixth place with the sales of 10,472 units.