According to the figures released by the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers, total exports from the country stood at 23,39,333 units in last fiscal compared to 18,04,426 units in the year-ago period.
During the fiscal, commercial vehicles and two-wheeler sectors witnessed good growth in exports, SIAM President Pawan Goenka told reporters in New Delhi.
"The only low was the passenger vehicle segment, mainly because of slow recovery of the European market," he added.
After the slowdown of 2008-09, many countries in Europe had offered incentives in 2009-10 to customers for buying new cars in exchange of their old ones to help the auto industry.
While sales picked up in the existence of the incentives, it has again dropped after the funds for the scheme dried up. India's total passenger vehicle exports during last fiscal were up by a mere 1.64 per cent at 4,53,479 units as against 4,46,145 units in the previous fiscal, SIAM said.
Passenger car exports from India touched 4,47,403 units in FY'11 as against 4,41,709 units in the previous financial year, up 1.29 per cent.
In 2010-11, India's largest exporter Hyundai Motor saw a decline of 18.41 per cent at 2,33,069 units.
Domestic market leader Maruti Suzuki was a distant second, registering 6.93 per cent fall in overseas sales at 1,36,026 units in 2010-11.
However, exports growth in the last financial year was robust in the two-wheeler category, which registered 35.04 per cent rise at 15,39,590 units as against 11,40,058
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