Maruti Suzuki sold an Alto and a Dzire every two minutes

Maruti Suzuki, with a near 50 per cent market share in passenger vehicles, sold three cars every minute in the just concluded fiscal year 2017-18. For the third consecutive month this calendar year, the five best selling car models carried the Maruti Suzuki brand.Alto, which regained its status as India's top selling model after a lapse of four months, was bought once every two minutes in March, the last month of FY18.

Giving it close competition was stable mate Dzire, which has alternated with the Alto as India's best selling car. With 22,195 units sold last month, one Dzire also got sold every two minutes, give or take a few seconds.

The third Maruti Suzuki entrant in the top five best selling cars in March was the Swift, with 13 units of the model being sold every half an hour.

Maruti Suzuki's premium hatchback, Baleno saw its performance dip, though it was still good enough to corner the fourth rank in the sales pecking order for the month of March. It sold two units in every five minutes, translating into 16,254 units sold in March 2018 - down by one percentage point from March 2017.

Rounding up the top five is the Wagon R, admittedly not quite the looker that its sister brands are. That however, mattered little to its over 14,000 new buyers last month, which saw it post a 17.4 per cent increase in units sold year-on-year.