Car Sales H1 FY 2025-26: Maruti Suzuki Leads, 18,59,698 Units, Up 4.3% YoY

India's passenger car market registered 18,59,698 cars in H1 FY 2025-26. Volumes grew 4.3% against the 17,83,447 logged over the same 6 months of H1 FY 2024-25.

April was the strongest month of the period at 3,45,195 cars and June the quietest at 2,91,107, an average of 3,09,950 a month. Every one of those 6 months grew on the same month a year earlier.

ஏப்ரல் புதிய நிதியாண்டைத் தொடங்குகிறது; பொதுவாக விலை மாற்றங்களும் டீலர் இருப்பில் மறுசீரமைப்பும் நடக்கும்.

H1 FY 2025-26 ran from April 2025 to September 2025 and is closed. Every month in the table below is final, and every comparison on this page is against the matching month of H1 FY 2024-25.

Cars accounted for 14.4% of everything registered in India over the period, up from 14.3% in H1 FY 2024-25. The whole market ran to 1,28,79,842 vehicles over the same window, up 3.5% year on year.

These are privately registered cars and UVs. Vahan books taxis and cabs as a class of their own, another 1,70,506 in H1 FY 2025-26, and passenger-vehicle figures published elsewhere usually include them. With taxis, the period comes to 20,30,204 passenger vehicles.

Maruti Suzuki led the period with 6,75,962 registrations, up 1.4% on H1 FY 2024-25. Mahindra follows on 2,46,000, 4,29,962 behind — a gap of 2.75x.

The fastest riser in the top 8 was MG Motor, up 44.7% to 36,190, while Hyundai was down 7.3% at 2,41,570.

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 H1 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 outgrew the national picture over H1 FY 2025-26: +4.3% against +3.5% for every vehicle registered in India.

இந்த அட்டவணை Vahan அறிக்கை அளிக்கும் ஒவ்வொரு பிரிவையும் ஒரே 6 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 full-year 2025 rather than H1 FY 2025-26 alone — it is exact for that window.

Petrol accounts for 51.3% of car registrations over full-year 2025, with battery-electric at 4.4%.

Across the 3 completed windows in our Vahan record, car registrations went from 17,83,447 in H1 FY 2024-25 to 23,25,059 in H1 FY 2026-27, up 30.4% over the stretch.