The country’s largest carmaker Maruti-Suzuki released details of the sales for March 2019 and for the financial year 2018-19. As the company had indicated in previous announcements, sales growth was slower than in previous four years and domestic sales growth increased by 6.1 per cent to 1,753,700 units from 1,653,500 units in the previous financial year. Maruti-Suzuki Chairman R C Bhargava had in his year-end press-conference in 2018 mentioned that sales growth slows dramatically in pre-election years and the last major time sales growth had stalled was 2013-14, but there was usually a commensurate pick-up in sales in a post-election environment. Maruti-Suzuki launched several new models in the past few months including new generation models of the Ertiga and WagonR.