Car Sales FY 2025-26: Maruti Suzuki Leads, 44,93,814 Units, Up 13.1% YoY

India's passenger car market registered 44,93,814 cars in FY 2025-26. Volumes pushed ahead 13.1% against the 39,71,760 logged over the same 12 months of FY 2024-25.

October was the strongest month of the period at 5,50,240 cars and June the quietest at 2,91,107, an average of 3,74,484 a month. Every one of those 12 months grew on the same month a year earlier.

FY 2025-26 ran from April 2025 to March 2026 and is closed. Every month in the table below is final, and every comparison on this page is against the matching month of FY 2024-25.

Cars accounted for 14.6% of everything registered in India over the period, down from 14.6% in FY 2024-25. The whole market ran to 3,08,42,419 vehicles over the same window, up 13.2% year on year.

These are privately registered cars and UVs. Vahan books taxis and cabs as a class of their own, another 3,78,064 in FY 2025-26, and passenger-vehicle figures published elsewhere usually include them. With taxis, the period comes to 48,71,878 passenger vehicles.

Maruti Suzuki led the period with 16,71,997 registrations, up 11.0% on FY 2024-25. Mahindra follows on 5,86,282, 10,85,715 behind — a gap of 2.85x.

The fastest riser in the top 8 was Tata Motors (EV), up 43.3% to 81,372.

Volumes here are registrations inside the segment only, counted with Vahan's own vehicle-class filter, so each is the manufacturer's car volume over FY 2025-26. Companies that file electric models under a maker of their own appear as separate rows.

Set against the rest of the market, cars lagged the national picture over FY 2025-26: +13.1% against +13.2% for every vehicle registered in India.

இந்த அட்டவணை Vahan அறிக்கை அளிக்கும் ஒவ்வொரு பிரிவையும் ஒரே 12 மாதக் காலத்தில் உள்ளடக்குகிறது; அதனால் ஒப்பீடு நேருக்கு நேர் — இரு பக்கமும் ஒரே மாதங்கள், ஒரே மூலம்.

Vahan splits a segment by fuel only across a whole calendar year, so this table covers 2026 year to date rather than FY 2025-26 alone — it is exact for that window.

Petrol accounts for 46.1% of car registrations over 2026 year to date, with battery-electric at 6.8%.

Across the 2 completed windows in our Vahan record, car registrations went from 39,71,760 in FY 2024-25 to 44,93,814 in FY 2025-26, up 13.1% over the stretch.

FY 2026-27 is still running — 7 of its 12 months are counted — so it is a part window and is never set against a full one. Its year-on-year figure compares only the months it actually holds.