Ashok Leyland Minibus

The company will also identify a location in north India to set up a manufacturing facility for its bus range, from city buses, mini buses to intercity buses. In addition,all will also get into an alliance for bus body building in Dubai. The latter will have a capacity of 2000 units a year. Ashok Leyland also announced its foray into non-vehicular businesses. The company’s arm for developing, testing and validating vehicular designs and components, Ashley Design Engineering services has recently commenced activities, and will service overseas OEMs besides Tier I companies. The company meanwhile sold in excess of 41,000 units in the first three quarters of the fiscal, reporting a growth of 13.3 percent against the same time last year. Volumes in the domestic market grew by 16.5 percent to 37,500 units. Capacity expansion and productivity improvements, they have registered a 4 percent gain in market share in MDVs.