The Indian automobile industry reported lacklustre sales for the month of April due to sluggish market conditions, high interest rate and diesel price de-regulation.
Market leader Maruti Suzuki’s sales grew 0.3 per cent to 90,523 units in April from 90,255 units in the year-ago period.Hyundai Motor India reported a 7.6 per cent decline in domestic sales to 32,403 units (35,070 units).
Passenger vehicle sales of Tata Motors dropped by 48.94 percent to 11,570 units during the month from 22,658 units in the same month last year.
Mahindra and Mahindra reported a two percent rise in total sales for April at 41,432 units from 40,715 off-take in the corresponding month of 2012.
Toyota Kirloskar Motor reported 37.36 per cent drop in sales at 9,007 units. It had sold 14,378 units in the same month last year.
Honda Cars India Ltd. (HCIL) posted a 19.97 per cent rise in sales at 8,488 units (7,075 units).
General Motor's sales increased by 2 percent to 8196 units
Ford India’s domestic sales went down by 44.41 per cent to 4,003 units during the month under review from 7,201 units in the same month last year.
France-based auto major Renault reported a 10-fold increase in sales at 6,314 units in April 2013. The company had sold 615 units in the same month of 2012, Renault India said in a statement.
If you have a passion for cars, click on to see if you can recognize the logos of some of the world's famous automotive companies
BMW
The company’s circular white and blue logo is portrayed as the movement of an aircraft propeller with the white blades cutting through a blue sky. The German automobile company, Bayerische Motoren Werke is popularly known as BMW.
Rolls-Royce
One of the oldest car manufacturers Rolls-Royce is very well known for its mascot on the bonnet of its cars. The silver lady also known as the Spirit of Ecstasy is in the form of a woman leaning forwards with her arms outstretched behind and above her.
It was designed by Charles Robinson Sykes and carries with it a story about a secret passion between John Walter Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, a pioneer of the automobile movement and his
Toyota
There are three ovals in the logo, the two perpendicular ovals inside the larger oval represent the heart of the customer and the heart of the company. They are overlapped to represent a mutually beneficial relationship and trust between each other.
The overlapping of the two perpendicular ovals inside the outer oval symbolize "T" for Toyota, as well as a steering wheel, representing the vehicle itself and the outer oval symbolizes the world
Audi
The Audi emblem of the four rings denotes one of Germany's oldest automobile manufacturers. It symbolizes the merger in 1932 of four previously independent motor vehicle manufacturers: Audi, DKW, Horch and Wanderer. These companies are the foundation stones on which the present-day AUDI AG is built.
Mitsubishi
The name Mitsubishi refers to the three-diamond emblem. ‘Mitsu’ means three while ‘Hishi’(pronounced as bishi) means water chestnut. The logo is said to be an arrangement of two family crests; the three-oak-leaf crest of the Yamauchi family, Lords of Tosa, where Yataro was born, and the three-tiered water chestnut crest of the Iwasaki family.
Mercedes-Benz
Classified as one of the luxury automobiles, Mercedes-Benz has a corporate logo which describes the three-pointed star enclosed in a circle. This star was included in the design intended for use on the radiator grille and became a registered trademark in August 1923.
Hyundai
The corporate logo of the Hyundai Motor Company is a circled slanting capital H. The company was established in 1967 and Cortina was the company’s first model which was released in cooperation with Ford Motor Company in 1968.
Honda
The capital H inside a square symbolizes distinguishes Honda from the other cars. The Honda Motor Company has been one of the largest motorcycles and automotive manufactures since the 1950s.
Renault
Renault cars are recognized by its diamond logo and have been through many changes since it first was used in 1925. This French multinational vehicle manufacturer was established in 1899.
Chevrolet
Although many variations in coloring and detail of the Chevrolet bowtie has changed over the years since its introduction in late 1913, its essential shape has never changed. In 2004, Chevrolet began to phase in the gold bowtie that today serves as the brand identity for all of its cars and trucks marketed globally.
Opel
The official logo of Opel is in the form of a horizontally stretched letter Z. The origin of the company’s logo lies in the truck Opel Blitz (Blitz means lightening in German). And that is to portray the horizontal form of a lightning which appears in the current logo.
Suzuki
The letter S is the corporate logo of Suzuki and its largest and most valuable subsidiaries, Maruti Suzuki. The company is known for manufacturing compact automobiles and has main production facilities in over 20 countries.
Tata
A circled capital T is the corporate identity of Tata Motors. It is India's largest automobile company and Jaguar Land Rover, Tata Marcopolo Motors and Concorde Motors are among its many joint ventures, subsidiaries and associate companies.
Volkswagen
Volkswagen means ‘people's car’ in German. The company is was founded on 28 May 1937 and headquartered in Wolfsburg, Germany. The current Volkswagen logo, which reads a V and a W inside a circle, was redesigned in 2000.
Jaguar
The leaping jaguar is the emblem used on the bonnet of the cars. Jaguar was founded as the Swallow Sidecar Company by Sir William Lyons in 1922 and is now a subsidiary of the Indian company Tata Motors.
Ferrari
The well known symbol of the Ferrari cars is the black prancing stallion on a yellow shield with the letters SF for Scuderia Ferrari and also has three stripes of colors green, white and red on top representing the national colors of Italy. The company was founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929 as Scuderia Ferrari.
Bentley
Bentley distinguishes its cars with a winged B badge on the hood of its cars. The Bentley Motors was founded in 1919 by W. O. Bentley and is now owned by Volkswagen.
Lamborghini
Ferruccio Lamborghini founded Automobili Ferruccio Lamborghini in 1963 and it is said that the world of bullfighting is a key part of Lamborghini's identity. It is believed that Lamborghini was so impressed by the Spanish fighting bulls when he visited the Seville ranch of Don Eduardo Miura, a renounced breeder of the bulls that he decided to adopt a raging bull as the emblem of the company.
Porsche
The centre of the crest shows a black horse rampant, an expression both of forward thrusting power and a derivation of the city seal. The team at Porsche was giving a clear sign of the bond they felt with the town in which they were based and now every Porsche has been duly armed with this logo.
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