Passenger Vehicle (PV) Sales FY 2026-27 (Year to Date): 30,65,235 Units, Up 17.0% YoY

India's passenger vehicle market registered 30,65,235 passenger vehicles in FY 2026-27 so far. Volumes rose sharply 17.0% against the 26,19,973 logged over the same 7 months of FY 2025-26.

Passenger vehicles (PV, also called 4W) are privately registered cars and UVs plus taxis and cabs, which Vahan books as a class of their own. In FY 2026-27 so far that is 28,00,329 cars and UVs and 2,64,906 taxis and cabs; taxis are 8.6% of the total. Against the same 7 months of FY 2025-26, cars and UVs are +16.2% and taxis +26.1%.

October was the strongest month of the period at 5,13,984 passenger vehicles and May the quietest at 4,14,933, an average of 4,37,891 a month. 6 of those 7 months grew on the same month a year earlier.

FY 2026-27 still has 5 months to run. Held at the pace of the 7 months already counted, it would finish near 52.55 L passenger vehicles — a run rate rather than a forecast, and the festive quarter moves it more than anything else on this page.

Passenger vehicles accounted for 16.3% of everything registered in India over the period, up from 15.4% in FY 2025-26. The whole market ran to 1,87,89,285 vehicles over the same window, up 10.2% year on year.

Maruti Suzuki led the period with 12,26,816 registrations, up 17.9% on FY 2025-26. Mahindra follows on 3,57,938, 8,68,878 behind — a gap of 3.43x.

The fastest riser in the top 8 was Tata Motors (EV), up 101.0% to 92,411, while Skoda was down 8.2% at 61,484.

Volumes here are registrations inside the segment only, counted with Vahan's own vehicle-class filter, so each is the manufacturer's passenger vehicle volume over 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, passenger vehicles outgrew the national picture over FY 2026-27: +17.0% against +10.2% for every vehicle registered in India.

இந்த அட்டவணை Vahan அறிக்கை அளிக்கும் ஒவ்வொரு பிரிவையும் ஒரே 7 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 2026-27 alone — it is exact for that window.

Petrol accounts for 43.3% of passenger vehicle registrations over 2026 year to date, with battery-electric at 6.6%.

Across the 2 completed windows in our Vahan record, passenger vehicle registrations went from 43,03,387 in FY 2024-25 to 48,71,881 in FY 2025-26, up 13.2% 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.