Car Sales H1 FY 2026-27: Maruti Suzuki Leads, 23,25,155 Units, Up 25% YoY

India's passenger car market registered 23,25,155 cars in H1 FY 2026-27. Volumes jumped 25.0% against the 18,59,698 logged over the same 6 months of H1 FY 2025-26.

September was the strongest month of the period at 4,01,022 cars and August the quietest at 3,76,422, an average of 3,87,526 a month. Every one of those 6 months grew on the same month a year earlier.

September is the quiet month before the festive peak — buyers routinely defer registrations into the auspicious October window.

H1 FY 2026-27 ran from April 2026 to September 2026 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 2025-26.

Cars accounted for 14.9% of everything registered in India over the period, up from 14.4% in H1 FY 2025-26. The whole market ran to 1,55,88,542 vehicles over the same window, up 21.0% year on year.

These are privately registered cars and UVs. Vahan books taxis and cabs as a class of their own, another 2,26,096 in H1 FY 2026-27, and passenger-vehicle figures published elsewhere usually include them. With taxis, the period comes to 25,51,251 passenger vehicles.

Maruti Suzuki led the period with 8,68,105 registrations, up 28.4% on H1 FY 2025-26. Mahindra follows on 2,88,389, 5,79,716 behind — a gap of 3.01x.

The fastest riser in the top 8 was Tata Motors (EV), up 110.9% to 74,977, while Skoda was down 2.7% at 52,135.

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 2026-27. 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 2026-27: +25.0% against +21.0% 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 2026 year to date rather than H1 FY 2026-27 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 3 completed windows in our Vahan record, car registrations went from 17,83,447 in H1 FY 2024-25 to 23,25,155 in H1 FY 2026-27, up 30.4% over the stretch.