Passenger Vehicle (PV) Sales 2026 (Year to Date): 44,92,930 Units, Up 18.1% YoY

India's passenger vehicle market registered 44,92,930 passenger vehicles in CY 2026 so far. Volumes pushed ahead 18.1% against the 38,05,158 logged over the same 10 months of CY 2025.

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 CY 2026 so far that is 41,17,984 cars and UVs and 3,74,946 taxis and cabs; taxis are 8.3% of the total. Against the same 10 months of CY 2025, cars and UVs are +17.5% and taxis +24.5%.

January was the strongest month of the period at 5,43,299 passenger vehicles and May the quietest at 4,14,933, an average of 4,49,293 a month. 9 of those 10 months grew on the same month a year earlier.

CY 2026 still has 2 months to run. Held at the pace of the 10 months already counted, it would finish near 53.92 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 16.7% of everything registered in India over the period, up from 16.1% in CY 2025. The whole market ran to 2,69,82,561 vehicles over the same window, up 13.9% year on year.

Maruti Suzuki led the period with 17,95,187 registrations, up 17.7% on CY 2025. Mahindra follows on 5,37,440, 12,57,747 behind — a gap of 3.34x.

The fastest riser in the top 8 was Tata Motors (EV), up 90.0% to 1,17,096, while Skoda was down 4.0% at 90,438.

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 CY 2026. 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 CY 2026: +18.1% against +13.9% for every vehicle registered in India.

இந்த அட்டவணை Vahan அறிக்கை அளிக்கும் ஒவ்வொரு பிரிவையும் ஒரே 10 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 CY 2026 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 42,29,957 in CY 2024 to 46,29,371 in CY 2025, up 9.4% 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 2026 year to date. Maharashtra leads with 5,70,140 registrations, 12.1% of the segment.