India, Jan. 11 -- All the luxury car brands in India have declared their sales figures for 2018; and sales in the luxury car segment are reflective of the sales figures in the overall car market in India for 2018. That is, described in a single word, tepid. But, while the overall car market in 2018 has been slow, one reason for that seems to be because sales tend to go slow and even fall in pre-election years. Long story short, sales in 2018 for the leading brands were the following. Mercedes-Benz, 15,538; BMW (with MINI) 11,105; Audi, 6,463; Jaguar-Land Rover, 4,579 and Volvo, 2,638. Throw in the few hundred cars sold by the likes of Porsche, Ferrari and other supercar makers and ultra-luxury brands such as Bentley, in and overall sales ...