Passenger Vehicle (PV) Sales Q4 FY 2025-26: Maruti Suzuki Leads, 14,27,695 Units, Up 20.5% YoY

India's passenger vehicle market registered 14,27,695 passenger vehicles in Q4 FY 2025-26. Volumes grew strongly 20.5% against the 11,85,185 logged over the same 3 months of Q4 FY 2024-25.

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 Q4 FY 2025-26 that was 13,17,655 cars and UVs and 1,10,040 taxis and cabs; taxis were 7.7% of the total. Against Q4 FY 2024-25, cars and UVs were +20.4% and taxis +20.7%.

January was the strongest month of the period at 5,43,299 passenger vehicles and February the quietest at 4,15,400, an average of 4,75,898 a month. Every one of those 3 months grew on the same month a year earlier.

ஜனவரியில் புத்தாண்டு பதிவு நெருக்கடி அதிகம் — டிசம்பர் இறுதியில் டெலிவரி எடுத்த வாங்குநர்கள் பெரும்பாலும் முதல் வாரத்தில் பதிவு செய்கின்றனர்.

Q4 FY 2025-26 ஜனவரி 2026 முதல் மார்ச் 2026 வரை நடந்தது; இது முடிந்துவிட்டது. கீழுள்ள அட்டவணையில் உள்ள ஒவ்வொரு மாதமும் இறுதியானது; இந்தப் பக்கத்திலுள்ள ஒப்பீடுகள் அனைத்தும் Q4 FY 2024-25-இன் அதே மாதத்துடன் ஒப்பிடப்பட்டவை.

Passenger vehicles accounted for 17.4% of everything registered in India over the period, down from 17.8% in Q4 FY 2024-25. The whole market ran to 81,93,276 vehicles over the same window, up 23.3% year on year.

Maruti Suzuki led the period with 5,68,371 registrations, up 17.4% on Q4 FY 2024-25. Mahindra follows on 1,79,502, 3,88,869 behind — a gap of 3.17x.

The fastest riser in the top 8 was Tata Motors (EV), up 57.8% to 24,685.

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 Q4 FY 2025-26. Companies that file electric models under a maker of their own appear as separate rows.

Set against the rest of the market, passenger vehicles lagged the national picture over Q4 FY 2025-26: +20.5% against +23.3% for every vehicle registered in India.

இந்த அட்டவணை Vahan அறிக்கை அளிக்கும் ஒவ்வொரு பிரிவையும் ஒரே 3 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 Q4 FY 2025-26 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 11,11,755 in Q4 FY 2023-24 to 14,27,695 in Q4 FY 2025-26, up 28.4% over the stretch.