Car News in India

Tata Motors on Thursday said its global sales stood at 87,459 units in August, up three per cent compared to the same month a year ago.

Sales of luxury brands from Jaguar Land Rover were up 31 per cent at 21,242 vehicles in August 2011, Tata Motors said in a statement.

While sales of luxury sedans of Jaguar brand were down by 10 per cent last month to 3,409 units, Land Rover sales were up by 43 per cent at 17,833 units, it added.

It said the total passenger vehicles sales stood at 18,194 units in August 2011, down 35 per cent from the corresponding period last year.

Commercial vehicles sales were up by 17 per cent to 48,023 units from the same month last year, it added.

The Tata Motors Group’s global sales comprise Tata, Tata Daewoo and Hispano Carrocera range of commercial vehicles, Tata passenger vehicles, along with the distributed brands in India: Jaguar and Land Rover.