Car Sales December 2025: Maruti Suzuki Leads, 3,72,658 Units Registered
Full Vahan registration report for December 2025 — every major manufacturer ranked, with month-on-month and year-on-year change, segment share, fuel mix and the state-wise picture.
How December went
India's passenger car market registered 3,72,658 vehicles in December 2025. Volumes jumped 28.5% against December 2024, and fell back 5.3% on November. It was the strongest December in that record.
That is 10 consecutive months of year-on-year growth for the segment. Year to date, 42,69,911 units have been registered across 12 months, +9.5% on the same stretch of 2024 (39,00,386). The segment accounted for 17.4% of every vehicle registered in India that month.
December is the year-end discount month, though many buyers hold registration to January to keep a newer model year on the RC.
These are privately registered cars and UVs. Vahan books taxis and cabs as a class of their own, another 26,830 in December 2025, and passenger-vehicle figures published elsewhere usually include them. With taxis, the month comes to 3,99,488.
Monthly car registrations, 2023–2026
One line per calendar year — the shape of the year, not just its total. The dashed end of the current year is the month so far.
Manufacturer scoreboard
Maruti Suzuki led the segment with 1,38,938 registrations, ahead of Hyundai on 48,065 — a gap of 90,873 units, wider than the 89,210 it held in November.
Tata Motors (EV) grew fastest among the segment's biggest names at +73.5% year on year (7,264 units).
On share rather than volume — the number that decides who is actually winning — Toyota Kirloskar has added 0.84pp of the segment in 2025, while Hyundai has given up 1.63pp.
Top 10 manufacturers, December 2025
Registrations in the month
Ranked by registrations in the month, with month-on-month and year-on-year change. Click a name for its full dashboard.
| # | Manufacturer | Dec 2025 | MoM | YoY | Share of cars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maruti Suzuki | 1,38,938 | −2.9% | +27.7% | 37.28% |
| 2 | Hyundai | 48,065 | −3.3% | +19.5% | 12.90% |
| 3 | Tata Motors (PV) | 47,852 | −3.3% | +35.3% | 12.84% |
| 4 | Mahindra | 46,281 | −14.0% | +27.3% | 12.42% |
| 5 | Toyota Kirloskar | 26,342 | −7.1% | +35.0% | 7.07% |
| 6 | Kia India | 21,853 | −14.2% | +17.8% | 5.86% |
| 7 | Skoda | 10,122 | −1.9% | +45.1% | 2.72% |
| 8 | Tata Motors (EV) | 7,264 | +4.9% | +73.5% | 1.95% |
| 9 | Honda Cars | 5,843 | +5.9% | +17.7% | 1.57% |
| 10 | MG Motor | 4,916 | −4.2% | −15.9% | 1.32% |
| 11 | Renault India | 3,292 | −1.8% | +39.1% | 0.88% |
| 12 | Mahindra Electric Automobile | 3,102 | +3.3% | — | 0.83% |
| 13 | Nissan India | 1,795 | −10.3% | +6.5% | 0.48% |
| 14 | BMW India | 1,747 | +15.7% | +23.0% | 0.47% |
| 15 | Mercedes-Benz | 1,449 | −11.3% | −3.2% | 0.39% |
Registrations inside the segment only, counted with Vahan's own vehicle-class filter, so each number is that manufacturer's car volume (taxis are a separate class and are not included). Companies that file electric models under a maker of their own (Tata, Mahindra) appear as separate rows.
Market share, year to date
Share is measured inside the segment itself — only car volume counts on either side of the ratio. Volume is full-year 2025. The comparison is against the whole of 2024.
Exact segment volume per manufacturer over full-year 2025, and the change in share against full-year 2024.
| # | Manufacturer | 2025 units | Share | vs full-year 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maruti Suzuki | 16,04,469 | 37.58% | −0.26pp |
| 2 | Mahindra | 5,53,975 | 12.97% | +0.58pp |
| 3 | Hyundai | 5,47,293 | 12.82% | −1.63pp |
| 4 | Tata Motors (PV) | 5,10,496 | 11.96% | −0.61pp |
| 5 | Toyota Kirloskar | 3,04,539 | 7.13% | +0.84pp |
| 6 | Kia India | 2,67,480 | 6.26% | −0.02pp |
| 7 | Skoda | 1,14,581 | 2.68% | +0.51pp |
| 8 | Tata Motors (EV) | 71,692 | 1.68% | +0.21pp |
| 9 | MG Motor | 71,084 | 1.66% | +0.24pp |
| 10 | Honda Cars | 63,120 | 1.48% | −0.33pp |
| 11 | Renault India | 35,529 | 0.83% | −0.19pp |
| 12 | Mahindra Electric Automobile | 30,418 | 0.71% | +0.71pp |
| 13 | Nissan India | 21,888 | 0.51% | −0.16pp |
| 14 | Mercedes-Benz | 17,985 | 0.42% | −0.02pp |
| 15 | BMW India | 17,630 | 0.41% | +0.02pp |
Fuel mix
Petrol accounts for 51.4% of the segment's registrations in 2025. Electric is at 4.40%, a move of +1.96pp on 2024 on volume of 1,87,761 units.
Car fuel mix, 2025
Share of segment registrations year to date
The full-year 2025 mix.
| Fuel | 2025 units | Share | vs full-year 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Petrol | 21,92,752 | 51.35% | −4.05pp |
| Diesel | 7,85,723 | 18.40% | −0.16pp |
| CNG / LPG | 7,46,369 | 17.48% | +2.69pp |
| Hybrid | 3,56,714 | 8.35% | −0.44pp |
| Electric | 1,87,761 | 4.40% | +1.96pp |
| Other | 592 | 0.01% | +0.01pp |
Share is of this report's own scope over full-year 2025, compared with the whole of 2024.
Where the demand is
Maharashtra was the largest market in full-year 2025 with 5,05,886 registrations, 11.8% of the segment's national total. Uttar Pradesh (4,75,343) and Gujarat (3,67,457) followed. Kerala has gained the most ground, adding 0.34pp of the national total.
Segment registrations over full-year 2025, by state.
| # | State | Units | Share | vs full-year 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maharashtra | 5,05,886 | 11.8% | +0.33pp |
| 2 | Uttar Pradesh | 4,75,343 | 11.1% | −0.10pp |
| 3 | Gujarat | 3,67,457 | 8.6% | −0.17pp |
| 4 | Karnataka | 2,97,727 | 7.0% | −0.05pp |
| 5 | Haryana | 2,84,887 | 6.7% | −0.24pp |
| 6 | Tamil Nadu | 2,78,379 | 6.5% | +0.27pp |
| 7 | Rajasthan | 2,44,199 | 5.7% | +0.30pp |
| 8 | Kerala | 2,36,207 | 5.5% | +0.34pp |
| 9 | Madhya Pradesh | 1,99,073 | 4.7% | −0.01pp |
| 10 | Delhi | 1,91,166 | 4.5% | −0.35pp |
| 11 | Punjab | 1,69,858 | 4.0% | +0.20pp |
| 12 | Telangana | 1,56,218 | 3.7% | −0.40pp |
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Source. Every figure is a vehicle registration, taken daily from the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways' Vahan 4 dashboard (vahan.parivahan.gov.in) — the same source FADA and the industry use for retail data. Registrations are not the wholesale dispatch numbers manufacturers announce each month. "EV" means battery electric (Vahan fuels PURE EV and ELECTRIC(BOV)); hybrids are counted separately. Information only, not investment advice.
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