After covid, luxury cars lead the list of new launches in India in 2020; most of them are SUVs, Auto News, ET Auto
By Anirban Ghosh
New Delhi: Given that the Covid-19 pandemic strike the planet, luxury automobiles took precedence amid the new launches in India. Out of the complete 18 new introductions on the industry in 2020-21, 13 have been luxury automobiles such as ten SUVs. Even luxury carmakers desired SUVs to sedans.
Luxurious automobiles are probable to repeat the general performance in 2021 also. A lot more than 70 new luxury cars, such as brand new cars, facelifts and new variants, are set to be launched this 12 months. Industry experts hope the luxury auto industry to record product sales of 28,000 to 33,000 units in 2021, up from 20,000-21,000 previous 12 months.
In 2020, Mercedes Benz Ag had 4 new launches. Ferrari had three new launches and all of them have been priced earlier mentioned INR 3 crore. 7 of the premium cars have been in the cost vary of INR 1crore and INR 3 crore, two in the vary of INR 50 lakh and INR 1crore and 3 in the cost vary of INR 25lakh and INR 50 lakh.
| Motor vehicle Name | Launch Date | Motor vehicle Variety | Base Price | Models Sold (2020-2021) |
| Nissan Magnite | 2nd December | Compact SUV | 5.fifty nine Lakh | nine,569 |
| Kia Sonet | 18th September | Compact SUV | 6.seventy nine Lakh | 63,717 |
| Toyota Urban Cruiser | twenty third September | Compact SUV | eight.62 lakh | sixteen,316 |
| Tata Nexon EV | 20th December | Electrical Compact SUV | 14 lakh | |
| MG Gloster | eighth Oct | Luxurious SUV | 29.ninety eight Lakh | 2513 |
| Audi Q2 | sixteenth Oct | Luxurious SUV | 34.ninety nine Lakh | NA |
| BMW two Series | 15th Oct | Luxurious Sedan | 37.ninety Lakh | NA |
| BMW X3 M | 2nd November | Luxurious SUV | ninety nine.ninety lakh | NA |
| Mercedes-Benz EQC | eighth Oct | Electrical SUV | one.04 Crore | NA |
| Mercedes-Benz AMG GLE 53 | eighth September | Coupe | one.27 Crore | NA |
| BMW eight Series | eighth Might | Sedan | one.32 Crore | NA |
| Audi RS7 | sixteenth July | Sedan | one.94 Crore | NA |
| BMW X5 M | twenty sixth November | SUV | one.94 Crore | NA |
| Audi RSQ8 | twenty seventh August | SUV | two.07 Crore | NA |
| Mercedes-Benz AMG GT | Might 2020 | Sports Car or truck | two.27 Crore | NA |
| Ferrari Roma | September | Sports auto | 3.61 crore | NA |
| Ferrari F8 tributo | August | Sports auto | 4.02 crore | NA |
| Ferrari Stratdale | December | Sports auto | 7.50 crore | NA |
*(Facelifts of older cars are not regarded right here as new launches)
Tata Nexon EV was the only motor vehicle in the vary of INR ten lakh and INR 25 lakh.
Non-luxury carmakers like Toyota, Nissan and Kia launched one motor vehicle every in the INR 5 lakh to INR ten lakh cost vary.
Shockingly, India’s major carmaker Maruti Suzuki did not have any new launches in 2020-21.
ETAuto has earlier described that the share of SUVs or UVs is increasing in the Indian PV industry. In the earlier five years, the domestic product sales development has altered in favour of utility cars which rose from about 761,485 units in FY17 to one,019,394 units in FY21.
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India’s tremendous-luxury auto (priced earlier mentioned INR two crore) product sales have evidently been on a growth trajectory for the earlier handful of years. The area of interest segment grew a lot more than three fold from about one hundred fifty automobiles in 2018 to about five hundred automobiles in 2020. But the overall quantity of the segment continues to be too low to be sizeable. Though India is 1 of the international locations getting the optimum amount of millionaires in the planet, it doesn’t figure amid the best 25 markets for such automobiles in the planet.
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