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LCVs

Auto Strain

Auto Strain

Updated 25 Aug, 2025 02:28pm
It appears that the automobile industry and the accompanying government policies are serving a small segment of the...
Back on the road

Back on the road

Published 04 Jul, 2025 06:02am
With policy rate cut by half, auto loans have made a strong comeback, and it has translated in a resurgence of...
Brakes on

Brakes on

Updated 30 May, 2025 08:07am
Rate cuts have been more than welcoming for car buyers, and it shows in improving sales across the industry. In 10M,...
Wait is over

Wait is over

Updated 28 Apr, 2025 08:08am
It has taken 41 months for net automobile loans to circle back to the level they used to be. That’s nearly three...
Back in gear

Back in gear

Published 08 Apr, 2025 09:04am
As small as Pakistan’s automobile industry is, it has contracted significantly in recent years. By FY24, industry...
‘Owning’ the market

‘Owning’ the market

Published 27 Mar, 2025 06:59am
Car sales are rising and driving up the premiums as they go. Known locally as “own money”, this is where buyers pay...
Shifting gears

Shifting gears

Published 19 Feb, 2025 07:49am
The automotive market is salvaging its size. After dropping to a historic low in FY24, the market is growing once...
Mixed signals

Mixed signals

Published 15 Jan, 2025 07:55am
Consumers say they don’t intend to purchase motor vehicles in the next six months—well, most consumers, not all;...
Forget FY24

Forget FY24

Published 12 Dec, 2024 08:37am
In 2021, buckling under the pressure of a rising import bill, soaring inflation, and shrinking reserves, the State...
Don’t bury the Lede

Don’t bury the Lede

Published 21 Oct, 2024 09:12am
The shrinking of the automobile market for newly assembled vehicles is almost palpable and can be felt (by...
Autos: It’s not over

Autos: It’s not over

Published 21 Jun, 2024 08:59am
In a great display of resilience, automobile sales have remained consistently strong on May 24 after delivering a...
Misery meets company

Misery meets company

Published 20 May, 2024 08:49am
If the worthy reader too cannot keep up with the barrage of news on price cuts being offered by various automobile...
Autos: Unpromising!

Autos: Unpromising!

Published 16 Nov, 2023 08:39am
In two more months, the automotive industry would have reached the half-way point into the fiscal year that is FY24,...
Autos: The scatter here is too great

Autos: The scatter here is too great

Published 24 Aug, 2023 08:44am
The headlines haven’t changed—automobile volumes are down (in FY23, volumes shrank by 55 percent for passenger cars,...
The reckoning

The reckoning

Published 18 Aug, 2023 08:38am
Automotive industry is large enough and auto OEMs are making enough profits for analysts to talk about it endlessly....
The rich and the resilient

The rich and the resilient

Updated 13 Jul, 2023 10:11am
Pricier cars becoming more uneconomical, mounting cost of borrowing at prevailing kibor rates close to 23 percent,...
Autos: Head-on collision

Autos: Head-on collision

Published 11 May, 2023 09:01am
While March numbers would give pause and indicate there may still be ample demand in the market for newly assembled...
Suzuki skids to a stop?

Suzuki skids to a stop?

Published 19 Apr, 2023 08:32am
Pakistan Suzuki (PSX: PSMC) has had plenty of idle time on its hands, however vexing that may be, owing to massive...
Crash and burn

Crash and burn

Published 19 Jan, 2023 07:58am
Automotive assemblers are trying to make do. In the first half of the fiscal year, volumes have shrunk 38 percent...
Auto: Flailing volumes

Auto: Flailing volumes

Published 19 Sep, 2022 08:31am
FY22 is not panning out very well for the automotive industry. This was anticipated early on as overall inflation,...
Auto market size: Standing still!

Auto market size: Standing still!

Updated 14 Mar, 2022 11:35am
The automobile industry saw a number of new entrants come into competition to the three Japanese players, due to...
Autos: Calm before the storm

Autos: Calm before the storm

Published 14 Jan, 2022 08:01am
The auto industry has certainly ended the calendar year with a bang. In the cumulative first half of the fiscal ...
Autos: New Year (warning) bells

Autos: New Year (warning) bells

Published 30 Dec, 2021 07:16am
December numbers are not available yet, but by November, cumulative auto sales (including passenger cars, LCVs and...
Autos: tis the season to be jolly

Autos: tis the season to be jolly

Published 25 Aug, 2021 07:40am
The sudden, almost dramatic, increase in sales in the automobile industry specially in passenger cars is an...
Autos: Take ‘em for a spin!

Autos: Take ‘em for a spin!

Published 16 Jul, 2021 08:03am
The automotive market for FY21 has expanded by 62 percent (passenger cars, LCVs and SUVs) compared to last year,...
Autos: still in comfort zone?

Autos: still in comfort zone?

Published 15 Apr, 2021 07:35am
Automobile sector is one of the fastest recovering industries in the country from Covid-19. But the real test is...
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