PANAJI: Car dealers in Goa face the effect of ripple from the shortage of semiconductors (chips) that are ongoing.
Vehicle manufacturers struggle with production problems that force them to reduce supply to dealers, as a result of shipping to buyers in Goa have missed the delivery of profitable Dussehra.
“With the peak season for 42 days it has begun with the first Navratra, dealers find it difficult to convince customers to wait without limits for their choice vehicles,” said the President of the Goa Car Dealer Association, said Prashant Joshi.
He also said that there was a “strong demand” for several vehicle models this year, however, dealers witnessed a sharp decline in spot purchases due to low vehicle stocks “Joshi said that in some cases, buyers even cancel their bookings because they could not send vehicles With the date of the festival.
“According to our data, while 50-60% buyers go for previous bookings, the remaining 40% are those who have just come to the dealer and only buy their preferred vehicle from the stock ready.
At present this chapter is closed for us because most dealers have very limited stocks, “said Joshi.
While the availability of four-wheeled choices they have reduced the spirit of the customer’s festival, the situation is separated in the category of two-wheeled vehicles.
The desire to buy two-wheeled vehicles on the occasion This benefit is in accordance with Gada is “better but the request is not surprising.” Lockdown 2020 encourages global spee expenditure on electronic items because people rushed to establish a home office so that it extorted supplies from cars to monitors and computer headphones.
US-Chinese tension is also Part of the story.
Last August, the US banned foreign companies that chips using American technology from sales to Chinese technology giants on charges of espionage.
The car industry has become the most visible victim so far, with many brands that are forced to slow down their output in recent months.