Estimation question

How many passenger car tires will be sold in financial year 2022-2023 in India?

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What this question tests

Whether the candidate can build a market sizing estimate using vehicle population, replacement cycle, and regional context in India.

State scope: assume passenger car tires sold in India in FY22-23, including both new-vehicle original equipment tires and aftermarket replacement tires.
Estimate India's passenger vehicle installed base, roughly 40 to 45 million cars on the road, as a stated assumption.
Assume an average tire replacement cycle of roughly 3 years per set of 4 tires, meaning roughly one-third of the fleet replaces tires annually.
Calculate replacement tires: 42 million cars divided by 3, times 4 tires, gives roughly 56 million replacement tires per year.
Add new vehicle sales: roughly 3.5 million new cars sold annually times 4 tires gives roughly 14 million, for a total estimate of roughly 65 to 70 million tires.

Separates replacement demand from new-vehicle original equipment demand, since these are two distinct and additive sources.
States the tire replacement cycle assumption explicitly and explains why 3 years is reasonable for Indian driving conditions.
Lands on a combined range rather than a single overly precise figure.

Counting only new vehicle sales and ignoring the much larger replacement tire market.
Not stating the replacement cycle assumption, making the calculation impossible to follow.

How would rougher road conditions in certain regions change your replacement cycle assumption?
How would growing EV adoption affect this estimate over time?