May 2022 Car Sales Analysis - 20 Top-Selling Cars | V3Cars

08 June 2022
By Prathu Sharma
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In this May 2022 cars sales analysis article, we’ll look at the YoY and MoM change for the 20 top-selling cars of May 2022. Based on the data, we’ll also share our observations and possible reasons for big improvement or massive decline where applicable.

May 2022 - 20 Top-Selling Cars YoY Change

The top 10 best selling cars in May 2022 are all above 10,000 units a month
10 models on the top 20 bestselling list in May 2022 are from Maruti Suzuki, as they were in April as well.
The Celerio has the best YoY improvement of 3924%. This would be a ridiculous figure normally, but it is evident from the table, most cars show over a 100 percent growth from May 2021. This is because sales were incredibly low considering the second wave of COVID-19 in India and the plant shutdowns in May 2021.
Considering the unusual circumstances in May 2021, cars that show a low percentage change in sales sold more consistently during the second wave as they would have done in normal times. For example, WagonR shows a growth of 700% and Seltos only shows a YoY growth of 39%. This is because Maruti only sold only 2,086 units of WagonR in May 2021 while Kia sold 4,277 units of Seltos, which is more in line with the car’s typical performance.
Just going by numbers, XUV300, Ignis and Eeco showed a YoY change of 1900%, 967.73% and 856.39%, respectively.
Carrying on with the theme of anomalies, there were no declines in sales in May 2022 compared to May 2021.
Hyundai and Mahindra have 3 cars in the May’s top 20 list while Tata and Kia have 2. In May 2022, Toyota lost their spot in the 20 top-selling cars. (April 2022 Car Sales Analysis - 20 Top-Selling Cars)

20 TOP-SELLING CARS - MAY 2022 YOY CHANGE
Brand	Model	May 2022	May 2021	Change	%Change
Maruti Suzuki	WagonR	16,814	2,086	14,728	706.04%
Tata	Nexon	14,614	6,439	8,175	126.96%
Maruti Suzuki	Swift	14,133	7,005	7,128	101.76%
Maruti Suzuki	Baleno	13,970	4,803	9,167	190.86%
Maruti Suzuki	Alto	12,933	3,220	9,713	301.65%
Maruti Suzuki	Ertiga	12,226	2,694	9,532	353.82%
Maruti Suzuki	Dzire	11,603	5,819	5,784	99.4%
Hyundai	Creta	10,973	7,527	3,446	45.78%
Maruti Suzuki	Eeco	10,482	1,096	9,386	856.39%
Maruti Suzuki	Vitara Brezza	10,312	2,648	7,664	289.43%
Tata	Punch	10,241	-	10,241	-
Hyundai	Grand i10	9,138	3,804	5,334	140.22%
Mahindra	Bolero	8,767	3,517	5,250	149.27%
Hyundai	Venue	8,300	4,840	3,460	71.49%
Kia	Sonet	7,899	6,627	1,272	19.19%
Maruti Suzuki	Celerio	6,398	159	6,239	3923.9%
Kia	Seltos	5,953	4,277	1,676	39.19%
Mahindra	XUV700	5,069	-	5,069	-
Maruti Suzuki	Ignis	5,029	471	4,558	967.73%
Mahindra	XUV300	5,022	251	4,771	1900.8%

May 2022 - 20 Top-Selling Cars MoM Change

MoM change numbers for the month of May are more realistic, including some sales declines.
In terms of MoM change, the Swift is the top gainer with almost 59% improvement.
The second best performer in MoM improvement comes from the Sonet posting a 46.17% better figure in May compared to the April performance.
Seltos, Ertiga and Creta are the top 3 losers posting a decline of 20.69%, 17.89% and 13.26%, respectively.
Venue saw a negligible decline of 1.1% and Grand i10 saw a nominal rise of 0.16%, so these cars performed fairly flat.
WagonR keeps its top spot despite a decline of 952 sales and remains a consistent money maker for Maruti Suzuki.

20 TOP-SELLING CARS - MAY 2022 MOM CHANGE
Brand	Model	May 2022	Apr 2022	Change	%Change
Maruti Suzuki	WagonR	16,814	17,766	-952	-5.36%
Tata	Nexon	14,614	13,471	1,143	8.48%
Maruti Suzuki	Swift	14,133	8,898	5,235	58.83%
Maruti Suzuki	Baleno	13,970	10,938	3,032	27.72%
Maruti Suzuki	Alto	12,933	10,443	2,490	23.84%
Maruti Suzuki	Ertiga	12,226	14,889	-2,663	-17.89%
Maruti Suzuki	Dzire	11,603	10,701	902	8.43%
Hyundai	Creta	10,973	12,651	-1,678	-13.26%
Maruti Suzuki	Eeco	10,482	11,154	-672	-6.02%
Maruti Suzuki	Vitara Brezza	10,312	11,764	-1,452	-12.34%
Tata	Punch	10,241	10,132	109	1.08%
Hyundai	Grand i10	9,138	9,123	15	0.16%
Mahindra	Bolero	8,767	7,686	1,081	14.06%
Hyundai	Venue	8,300	8,392	-92	-1.1%
Kia	Sonet	7,899	5,404	2,495	46.17%
Maruti Suzuki	Celerio	6,398	7,066	-668	-9.45%
Kia	Seltos	5,953	7,506	-1,553	-20.69%
Mahindra	XUV700	5,069	4,494	575	12.79%
Maruti Suzuki	Ignis	5,029	3,815	1,214	31.82%
Mahindra	XUV300	5,022	3,909	1,113	28.47%

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Prathu Sharma

Engineer by upbringing, artist by passion, motorhead because, why not! Likes to know about everything related to technology, switches between american muscle and german innovation depending on the day. Wants to own 69' Mustang Mach 1 and to drive BMW M3 87'someday.