Car Sales 2024: Maruti Suzuki Leads, 39,00,746 Units, Up 3.5% YoY

India's passenger car market registered 39,00,746 cars in CY 2024. Volumes edged up 3.5% against the 37,68,833 logged over the same 12 months of CY 2023.

October was the strongest month of the period at 4,81,156 cars and September the quietest at 2,68,626, an average of 3,25,062 a month. 5 of those 12 months grew on the same month a year earlier.

CY 2024 ran from January 2024 to December 2024 and is closed. Every month in the table below is final, and every comparison on this page is against the matching month of CY 2023.

Cars accounted for 14.3% of everything registered in India over the period, down from 15.1% in CY 2023. The whole market ran to 2,72,37,581 vehicles over the same window, up 9.1% year on year.

These are privately registered cars and UVs. Vahan books taxis and cabs as a class of their own, another 3,29,211 in CY 2024, and passenger-vehicle figures published elsewhere usually include them. With taxis, the period comes to 42,29,957 passenger vehicles.

Maruti Suzuki led the period with 14,75,593 registrations, broadly flat (−0.4%) on CY 2023. Hyundai follows on 5,63,540, 9,12,053 behind — a gap of 2.62x.

The fastest riser in the top 8 was Toyota Kirloskar, up 35.2% to 2,45,462, while Skoda was down 12.7% at 84,750.

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 CY 2024. 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 CY 2024: +3.5% against +9.1% 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 full-year 2024 rather than CY 2024 alone — it is exact for that window.

Petrol accounts for 55.4% of car registrations over full-year 2024, with battery-electric at 2.4%.

Across the 2 completed windows in our Vahan record, car registrations went from 39,00,746 in CY 2024 to 42,70,187 in CY 2025, up 9.5% over the stretch.

CY 2026 is still running — 10 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.

State-level volumes for a single segment come from a calendar-year table, so the figures below cover full-year 2024. Maharashtra leads with 4,49,272 registrations, 11.5% of the segment.