Ashok Leyland, a major manufacturer of Trucks and Buses, has decided to make a foray into small passenger transport vehicles. Their product development team has developed an MUV (Multi Utility Vehicle) with 7 seats and 8 seats configuration. They found that MUVs like Toyota Innova, GM Tavera and many more other models from Mahindra and Tata Motors are doing good business in India. The company outsourced the research to find out the market potential for MUV in India to Market Research Group (MRG). MRG conducted sample market studies in Salem in Tamil nadu and Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh. They submitted a market potential report to Ashok Leyland, which suggested that there is good potential in the market for MUV. Based on the research report, the company launched the MUV Stile with technological collaboration with Nissan India Ltd. This product is similar to Nissan Evalia. In May 2015 Ashok Leyland took a decision to withdraw Stile due to weak sales.

Questions:

1. Was the research done by MRG scientific? Why you think so ?
2. What were the limitations in the research methodology ?

C. What could have been the appropriate research method ?