Passenger Vehicle (PV) Sales H1 FY 2026-27: Maruti Suzuki Leads, 25,51,251 Units, Up 26% YoY

India's passenger vehicle market registered 25,51,251 passenger vehicles in H1 FY 2026-27. Volumes jumped 25.7% against the 20,30,204 logged over the same 6 months of H1 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 H1 FY 2026-27 that was 23,25,155 cars and UVs and 2,26,096 taxis and cabs; taxis were 8.9% of the total. Against H1 FY 2025-26, cars and UVs were +25.0% and taxis +32.6%.

September was the strongest month of the period at 4,40,554 passenger vehicles and May the quietest at 4,14,933, an average of 4,25,208 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.

Passenger vehicles accounted for 16.4% of everything registered in India over the period, up from 15.8% 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.

Maruti Suzuki led the period with 10,12,250 registrations, up 27.9% on H1 FY 2025-26. Mahindra follows on 3,00,116, 7,12,134 behind — a gap of 3.37x.

The fastest riser in the top 8 was Tata Motors (EV), up 105.0% to 77,353, while Skoda was down 2.7% at 52,158.

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 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, passenger vehicles outgrew the national picture over H1 FY 2026-27: +25.7% 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 43.3% of passenger vehicle registrations over 2026 year to date, with battery-electric at 6.6%.

Across the 3 completed windows in our Vahan record, passenger vehicle registrations went from 19,48,589 in H1 FY 2024-25 to 25,51,251 in H1 FY 2026-27, up 30.9% over the stretch.