Among the current crop of Mahindra & Mahindra passenger vehicles, the Xylo and Quanto are the weakest links. M&M’s focus is now to revive these models’ performance. For the April-October 2013 period, the Xylo sold 9,302 units, a 40 percent fall from the 15,472 units it sold during the same period last year.
Its under-four-metre sibling, the Quanto, averaged a little over 700 units a month during this financial year, as compared to 4,279 units it sold during September, its first month of launch, and October. The coming months will see some action from M&M to push these two models, based on the same platform, in the market.
There’s a buzz that M&M may reconfigure the Quanto’s seven-seat arrangement and make it a five-seater to offer better space for the second row. There’s no official comment though for now, on what the new measures could be make the models more appealing to customers. M&M says that while it has discovered what measures need to be taken, it hasn’t figured out the reasons for the models’ weak performance. Continued..
Among the current crop of Mahindra & Mahindra passenger vehicles, the Xylo and Quanto are the weakest links. M&M’s focus is now to revive these models’ performance. For the April-October 2013 period, the Xylo sold 9,302 units, a 40 percent fall from the 15,472 units it sold during the same period last year.
Its under-four-metre sibling, the Quanto, averaged a little over 700 units a month during this financial year, as compared to 4,279 units it sold during September, its first month of launch, and October. The coming months will see some action from M&M to push these two models, based on the same platform, in the market.
There’s a buzz that M&M may reconfigure the Quanto’s seven-seat arrangement and make it a five-seater to offer better space for the second row. There’s no official comment though for now, on what the new measures could be make the models more appealing to customers. M&M says that while it has discovered what measures need to be taken, it hasn’t figured out the reasons for the models’ weak performance. Continued..