Tata Motors on Friday reported 29.50 per cent decline in its total vehicle sales at 61,660 units in January 2013.

Tata Motors has posted a 29.5 per cent fall in total sales (including exports)at 61,660 vehicles in January 2013, compared with 87,465 units sold during the same month a year ago.

The company’s domestic sales for the month under review stood at 57,780 units, while cumulative sales (including exports)for the company for the fiscal were 675,410 vehicles, it said in a statement.

Tata Motors has sold 42,571 of commercial vehicles in January 2013 in the domestic market, of which 33,849 were light commercial vehicles (LCV) and 8,722 medium and heavy commercial vehicles (M&HCVs).

The company’s cumulative sales of commercial vehicles in the domestic market for the fiscal stood at 432,941 units, with the Tata group company selling 3,15,041 LCVs and 1,17,900 M&HCVs.

Tata Motors sold 15,209 passenger vehicles in January 2013. The sales of the company’s Nano, Indica and Indigo range were at 11,192 units. The company exported 3,880 vehicles in January 2013.

rajesh.kurup@thehindu.co.in

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