Sri Lanka Car Market General News & Discussion

[Californikan]

News and discussion about the Sri Lanka car market

[Californikan]

July 2011 sales: Maruti #1 in new cars; Toyota #1 in reconditioned cars

Aug 11, 2011 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's brand new automobile market is dominated by India's Maruti and Toyota is leading the re-conditioned or imported used car segment, an analysis by J B Securities, a stock brokering firm, shows.

Maruti/Suzuki sold 1,373 cars in July 2011, and on average sold more than 1,100 units each month according to new vehicle registrations. The best selling model was the 'Alto' which sold around 600 to 850 units a month. In July 858 units were registered.

Malaysia's Perodua and India's Tata cars were a distant second selling about 200 unit a month. In July, 175 Perodua cars and 177 Tata cars were registered. Tata started selling its 'Nano' in Sri Lanka recently. Tata registrations shot up to 179 and 177 in June and July from a low from less than 20 a month up to May.

Among 'reconditioned' or used cars imported mainly from Japan, Toyota dominated, with more than 2,000 units being registered a month. But after May, when 2,368 Toyota's were registered volumes had declined. In June only 1,705 were registered and July 1,316.

Sri Lanka tightened rules of re-conditioned vehicle imports in April. Reconditioned vehicle registrations dropped from a peak of 3,110 in May to 1,727 in July.

http://www.lankabusinessonline.com/fullstory.php?nid=1986433805

[Sylvi]

Members,

Today lankadeepa first page news about Porsche car was air lifted who is the lucky owner is not reported.

Sylvi Wijesinghe

[TheClutch]

its a porsche panamera hybrid...imported by a leading business man in pettah..cost around 34Mn

Edited August 13, 2011 by TheClutch

[Sylvi]

Members,

Today lankadeepa news about another Vehicle scandal do not know who is this business man in Colombo Bambalapitya.

Sylvi Wijesinghe.

Edited August 22, 2011 by Sylvi

[Watchman]

Members,

Todays dinamina newspaper's headlines i am not sure as i did not read it.

[Schiffer]

Members,

Todays dinamina newspaper's headlines i am not sure as i did not read it.

lol

[heavyD]

Man it's really really hard to read and understand Sylvi's posts when you're stoned.

[Sylvi]

Man it's really really hard to read and understand Sylvi's posts when you're stoned.

'Big_D',

some honorary title so called gentle men habit to be stoned from the the time they get up in the morning if not they are unable to attend their day to day work.We live in a funny world above mentioned people should be directed to "MEL MADURA" at No. 60 Horton place Colombo 07.For rehabilitation.

Sylvi Wijesinghe

[heavyD]

I still don't get it. Maybe I'm still high.

Edited August 23, 2011 by Big_D

[Sylvi]

Members,

Please refer to this web page of Lankadeepa.

http://epaper.lankadeepa.lk/images/flippingbook/2011/August/22/01.jpg

Sylvi Wijesinghe.