India Autos Report Q1 2013
Report description
BMI believes new forecasts released by the Society of Indian Automotive Manufacturers (SIAM) in October 2012 are too bearish. SIAM now expects passenger car sales to grow by 1-3% for FY2013 from a previous forecast of 10%. According to S Sandilya, the President of SIAM, the slowdown in economic growth coupled with high interest rates will further decelerate growth.
However, we agree with the headwinds seen by SIAM for the Indian auto market and are also revising our FY2013 forecasts for the overall passenger vehicle sales market downwards to come in at 2.86mn units, a growth rate of 6.8% from 9.1% previously. On the whole though, we are more bullish on India's auto industry than SIAM.
While SIAM citied the recent diesel price hike as one of the reasons to downgrade growth in passenger car sales to 1-3%, we do not believe that the hike will have such a huge negative impact on this segment. We do not expect the spread between diesel and petrol to narrow much further going forward due to political pressures to maintain diesel subsidies. Although the price of diesel has increased, it is still much cheaper than petrol. Therefore, the strong demand for diesel vehicles is expected to continue.
Moreover, while sales of passenger cars and vans have stagnated recently, utility vehicles (UVs) such as MUVs have enjoyed very strong year-on-year (y-o-y) growth for the past few months. It is our view that this segment will outperform the overall passenger vehicle market going forward and we expect this strong growth in UV sales to continue and provide an additional boost to overall passenger vehicle sales for FY2013.
BMI also believes that SIAM's commercial vehicle (CV) forecast revisions are overly bearish and we are taking a more bullish stance. We are revising our CV sales growth forecast to 7.1% from 12.9 %previously to hit 867,000 units by end FY2013. It was BMI's view last year that the CV segment would easily outperform passenger car sales due to demand for construction and infrastructure projects and it played out well for us. While we do not think such strong growth rates will continue, we see no reason to be overly bearish on this segment.
Table of contents
Chapter - Executive Summary
Chapter - SWOT Analysis
India Auto Industry SWOT
India Political SWOT
India Economic SWOT
India Business Environment SWOT
Chapter - Global Overview
UK Boosts Europe, But Favourites Still Outperform
Table: Passenger Car Sales 8M12
Incentive Boom For Japan, US Powers On
Chapter - Industry Risk/Reward Ratings
Table: Business Environment Ratings -- Auto Industry Asia Pacific
Chapter - Regional Overview
Japanese Autos: Outlining The Bear Case Alternatives
Chapter - Macroeconomic Forecast Scenario
Table: India - GDP By Expenditure, Current Prices Breakdown
Chapter - Industry Forecast Scenario
Production And Sales
Table: India Autos Sector - Sales And Production, 2009-2017
Trade
Table: India Autos - Trade, 2009-2017
Industry Developments
Chapter - Passenger Vehicles – Forecast and Analysis
Production And Sales
Table: India Autos Sector - Passenger Cars, 2009-2017
Company Developments
Chapter - Commercial Vehicles – Forecast and Analysis
Production And Sales
Table: India Autos Sector - Commercial Vehicles, 2009-2017
Company Developments
Chapter - Motorcycles – Forecast and Analysis
Production And Sales
Table: India Autos Sector - Motorcycles, 2009-2017
Company Developments
Chapter - Automotive Suppliers – Analysis
Segment Developments
Company Developments
Chapter - Company Monitor
Mercedes Takes Knocked-Down Route To Asia
Chapter - Company Profiles
Hyundai
Maruti Suzuki
Tata Motors
Mahindra and Mahindra
Bajaj Auto
Chapter - Demographic Outlook
Table: India's Population By Age Group, 1990-2020 ('000)
Table: India's Population By Age Group, 1990-2020 (% of total)
Table: India's Key Population Ratios, 1990-2020
Table: India's Rural And Urban Population, 1990-2020
Chapter - BMI Methodology
How We Generate Our Industry Forecasts
Automobile Industry
Sources
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