Buoyed by good performance in automarket, country's largest auto-manufacturer Maruti Suzuki India is expecting a double digit growth over the next few months.
"Our sales have been growing since December 2008. December 2008-July 2009 are great months", Maruti Suzuki India chairman R C Bhargava told reporters in Chennai.
He hoped that the next two-three months would yield a double digit growth.
"Our sales have been growing. We see the next two-three months are good months. Definitely to grow by double digit", he said.
However, Bhargava was cautious whether this trend would continue in the automarket impacted by the slowdown.
To a query on whether the momentum in the autosector would continue, he said that the 'company was not forecasting anything beyond the next four months. It is because there are so many global and national uncertainities. We don't know what's going to happen", he said.
On their sales performance in rural areas, he hoped that there would be a 'marginal' increase in sales this year.
"As far as we are concerned the way we are growing to be is 'marginal' (in rural areas). Likely by 3-5 per cent", he said, adding the total sales in small towns was at 12-13 per cent.
Maruti Suzuki India reported a 33.36 per cent jump in sales at 78,074 units in July 2009. It had sold 58,543 vehicles in the same month last year.
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