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our urban infra is not even being able to take care of the existing ones, what will we do with so much more? Urban infra has been the bane of the country for quite long, not just tier 1 or 2 but even for tier 3 and 4.We still are underpenetrated in terms of car ownership. So, its not about those able to afford don't have parking. These are few people only now.
The real impact is because of taxation. Cars are taxed as luxury items. Govt. need to come out of this stigma. Cars, ACs, Refrigerators should be treated as essentials. They induce consumption.
Also, what we need to take into account regarding indian automobiles never picking up the pace it shoould have has been growth of taxi aggregators and metro.
basically, I would say this is a three fold thing -
1. Govt policies
2. lacking urban infrastructure, including a lack of public parking, narrow roads/encroachment, unplanned cities
3. Mass transportation options and the coming of technology.
Also as a car market India shouldtnt consider it parallely as to China and America. Not with US because, US is basically built keeping cars in mind, doesnt have a railway designed for public transport and cities are built keeping only cars in mind, you cannot survive there without a car. And in case of China, Chinese dont have ways to invest their wealth in the single largest thing that sinks investment, that is land. They cannot buy land, so they have only few ways to invest, one being, buy gold and other being share market (which has been subdued by Xinping in last few years) and last one being buying flats. buying flats, investing in share market and the chinese government building massive infra have been the key success stories and now they have overdone all this and is being curbed. So, they dont have many ways to use their discretionary income and hence they buy cars massively. This will continue for some time for sure....
India is a unique market in itself. but government has a few faults of its own that also cannot be ignored.