Does Sales Figures of a Car Matter in Your Buying Decision?

[autosafari]

.. Esteem had choices, like cielo, escorts, Zen had choice with Fiat UNO, 118NE HM contessa,

Cielo was launched long after Esteem established very well as a sole luxury car in India at that time.

When Cielo launched, every Tom and Harry who had money went for it and it was a big threat to Esteem till Daewoo went bankrupt in Korea.

Escorts also was a late entry and was a wrong model selection by Ford - Mahindra JV and there were issues in JV relationship between them.

118E was vintage when Zen came here and Contessa which was not in the segement of Zen was also an outdated one.

Maurti Zen which became a chart buster was a sales dud initially (an yellow Zen - that was the colour it was identified with). Later Maruti was successful in communicating through several ways that Zen is selling well in Europe and then people started buying - Herd mentality ?

 

[alexddas]

Exactly , there is no stereotyping dear .

A man who kills a person for a noble or selfish cause is still called a murderer .

Let me repeat
Similarly one who dosent use his own mind , dose not do his own research , does not use his critical thinking abilities , does not understand his own requirements and allow / depend only on sales figure and suggestions ( even pure honest suggestions ) as his inference, ignoring other crucial things and not looking with a open mind to options provided in deciding the best car is having herd mentality .

Again many have a habit of bragging that their choice of car is superior by showing high sales figures so my question is

A best seller is a good car , But how does a low selling car automatically becomes a bad car ?
For example

Maruti alto +k10 --25,030

Hyundai eon--8717

Alto is selling great fine , does eon selling far far less makes it a bad car or a inferior car by default ?

Raja, if a research is already done and the result is published and if the product is proving good for years then why should a common man do another research from his side on the same product to buy it?

Eon/Alto

Alto, Eon still on the budding stage.

 

[Gurrala74]

Superbad;267169]because there are people who buy the best sellers with their research,and those might be cars which fit their requirements perfectly, who consider more than one factor such as availability of spares, resale value before they go on and buy a car.

That is good approach buddy !!

if by co incidence their choice turns out to be a best seller, no point in branding them as following a herd mentality.

Who said this ?? whole point is best seller can be a good car, but a low seller is not a bad car all the times.

or that they are not an auto enthusiast.

Most of them are the common buyers who doesn't visit forums, do you disagree on this ?

or for that matter, the one not going for the best seller as the only smart person, or auto enthusiast.

Who said like this ??

this is the sole reason i have not cast my vote yet

May be you are still not clear on the question or at times you are YES and NO too. Or you are worried being branded either way ?? finally you need to take one stand which more suits your thoughts

 

[Raja]

Raja, if a research is already done and the result is published and if the product is proving good for years then why should a common man do another research from his side on the same product to buy it?

You mean a common man must close his eyes and buy the best selling car right ? Are you suggesting that ?

Btw which car will you suggest your friends ?

Alto or eon and why ?

Alto - plus 25,000 sales

Eon - only 8-9000 sales .

 

[alexddas]

You mean a common man must close his eyes and buy the best selling car right ? Are you suggesting that ?

Btw which car will you suggest your friends ?

Alto or eon and why ?

Alto - plus 25,000 sales

Eon - only 8-9000 sales .

The research is already done and sells consistently for years and no major defects reported then YES.

Alto the best seller proven for years.
Eon still on budding stage a long way to go.

 

[dharmesh]

Raja, if a research is already done and the result is published and if the product is proving good for years then why should a common man do another research from his side on the same product to buy it?

Eon/Alto

Alto, Eon still on the budding stage.

Research needs to be done to verify whether the best selling car suits my need and satifies my requirement or not.

For eg. Alto is best selling car, but my parents have problem in their knees so I would cancel Alto would go for Wagon-R or Ritz just so that my parents can have ease of ingress and outgress.

So here is where one should analyze and decide upon the vehicle that suits his/her needs best. Now if what you nailed down is the best seller than you hit a jackpot (Sone pe Suhaaga). I hope you got the point.

 

[alexddas]

Research needs to be done to verify whether the best selling car suits my need and satifies my requirement or not.

For eg. Alto is best selling car, but my parents have problem in their knees so I would cancel Alto would go for Wagon-R or Ritz just so that my parents can have ease of ingress and outgress.

So here is where one should analyze and decide upon the vehicle that suits his/her needs best. Now if what you nailed down is the best seller than you hit a jackpot (Sone pe Suhaaga). I hope you got the point.

Agree, i was posting on Alto to Eon on sales.

 

[Raja]

The research is already done and sells consistently for years and no major defects reported then YES.

Alto the best seller proven for years.
Eon still on budding stage a long way to go.

But then there are no major defects reported in eon also, why won't you suggest that ? There is discount also on eon .

 

[alexddas]

But then there are no major defects reported in eon also, why won't you suggest that ? There is discount also on eon .

Let it sell more units and be consistent for more years,then i will do so.

 

[vikyjoshi]

Well, people like you and me who are aware of what they want, do the research. Take pain of visiting multiple sites. Few Lucky ones, post their queries on this forums and get quick answers.
But majority of the people (eg 25 K indians /month), do you think have done this extensive search? They want a small car, and they would go for the most popular car.
Well if the Agent is able to sell some other similar car at the showroom they might opt for that but its the perception which is working for majority of masses.

 

[dharmesh]

Agree, i was posting on Alto to Eon on sales.

Sorry no offence meant to you, but I was talking generally keeping in my the context of the entire thread and broader picture.

 

[AppU]

Sorry for being late guys,

Here is my opinion,

I don't bother about the sales figure of cars.

I need a car, that should satisfy all my needs.I mostly keep a car for minimum 5 years.

If the company discontinued the product, within that 5 years. definitely the resale will go down. but, I never mind it.

I hope in our country we can get any spares from anywhere. So, If I need any spares that is not available in my area, I'll buy it from Major cities in India, even we can get the spares from scrap cars also(I got the spares for my first car 118NE from Scrap cars only).

So, My answer is "Love the car, live with the Love"

 

[Raja]

Let it sell more units and be consistent for more years,then i will do so.

Thanx , this is what iam saying there are many who think like you ( with good intention ) and suggest cars to buyers and they buy it without asking questions .

You agree, I agree some do not agree on this thread .

please help me in convincing them what you believe happens and why there are sales of a particular model or a car or a brand . this is what iam asking from you nothing else .

 

[Rightnow]

Let it sell more units and be consistent for more years,then i will do so.

If everyone will think like that, then who will buy the eon?

 

[alexddas]

Sorry no offence meant to you, but I was talking generally keeping in my the context of the entire thread and broader picture.

Let me repeat
Similarly one who dosent use his own mind , does not do his own research , does not use his critical thinking abilities , does not understand his own requirements and allow / depend only on sales figure and suggestions ( even pure honest suggestions ) as his inference, ignoring other crucial things and not looking with a open mind to options provided in deciding the best car is having herd mentality .

I was responding to this post.

If research is done and a result is published and a car is selling good for years and years with less probs then do you want a common man with less knowledge on cars do research to buy the best seller?