Car Sales 2024: Maruti Suzuki Leads, 39,00,386 Units, Up 3.5% YoY
Every car registered in India over CY 2024 — January 2024 to December 2024. The calendar year, January to December. Month-by-month volumes, the manufacturer leaderboard, how the segment moved against the rest of the market, and the same window in every earlier year on record.
Car sales month by month, CY 2024
India's passenger car market registered 39,00,386 cars in CY 2024. Volumes edged up 3.5% against the 37,68,833 logged over the same 12 months of CY 2023.
October was the strongest month of the period at 4,81,054 cars and September the quietest at 2,68,599, an average of 3,25,032 a month. 5 of those 12 months grew on the same month a year earlier.
CY 2024 ran from January 2024 to December 2024 and is closed. Every month in the table below is final, and every comparison on this page is against the matching month of CY 2023.
Cars accounted for 14.3% of everything registered in India over the period, down from 15.1% in CY 2023. The whole market ran to 2,72,37,413 vehicles over the same window, up 9.1% year on year.
Car registrations by month — CY 2024 vs CY 2023
Vahan retail registrations, each month set against the same month a year earlier.
Every completed month of CY 2024, with the matching month of CY 2023 beside it.
| Month | CY 2024 units | CY 2023 units | YoY | Share of period |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2024 | 3,89,681 | 3,48,913 | +11.7% | 10.0% |
| February 2024 | 3,22,466 | 2,92,236 | +10.3% | 8.3% |
| March 2024 | 3,10,805 | 3,33,288 | −6.7% | 8.0% |
| April 2024 | 3,27,754 | 2,83,293 | +15.7% | 8.4% |
| May 2024 | 2,95,156 | 2,98,019 | −1.0% | 7.6% |
| June 2024 | 2,75,699 | 2,93,206 | −6.0% | 7.1% |
| July 2024 | 3,12,973 | 2,78,804 | +12.3% | 8.0% |
| August 2024 | 3,03,141 | 3,08,265 | −1.7% | 7.8% |
| September 2024 | 2,68,599 | 3,25,631 | −17.5% | 6.9% |
| October 2024 | 4,81,054 | 3,49,437 | +37.7% | 12.3% |
| November 2024 | 3,23,074 | 3,66,054 | −11.7% | 8.3% |
| December 2024 | 2,89,984 | 2,91,687 | −0.6% | 7.4% |
Each month links through to its own full report.
Which manufacturer sold the most, CY 2024
Maruti Suzuki led the period with 14,75,593 registrations, broadly flat (−0.4%) on CY 2023. Hyundai follows on 5,63,533, 9,12,060 behind — a gap of 2.62x.
The fastest riser in the top 15 was Tata Motors (EV), up 63.8% to 57,474, while Stellantis Automobiles India was down 40.8% at 5,462.
Volumes here are registrations inside the segment only, counted with Vahan's own vehicle-class filter, so each is the manufacturer's car volume over CY 2024. Companies that file electric models under a maker of their own appear as separate rows.
Top manufacturers by registrations — CY 2024
Registrations inside the segment (cars only).
Exact registrations over January 2024 to December 2024, with the change against CY 2023.
| # | Manufacturer | CY 2024 units | Share of cars | vs CY 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maruti Suzuki | 14,75,593 | 37.83% | −0.4% |
| 2 | Hyundai | 5,63,533 | 14.45% | −0.2% |
| 3 | Tata Motors (PV) | 4,90,080 | 12.57% | −1.5% |
| 4 | Mahindra | 4,83,409 | 12.39% | +23.1% |
| 5 | Toyota Kirloskar | 2,45,462 | 6.29% | +35.2% |
| 6 | Kia India | 2,45,230 | 6.29% | +3.9% |
| 7 | Skoda | 84,660 | 2.17% | −12.8% |
| 8 | Honda Cars | 70,413 | 1.81% | −9.0% |
| 9 | Tata Motors (EV) | 57,474 | 1.47% | +63.8% |
| 10 | MG Motor | 55,420 | 1.42% | +3.4% |
| 11 | Renault India | 39,984 | 1.03% | −23.4% |
| 12 | Nissan India | 26,151 | 0.67% | −5.8% |
| 13 | Mercedes-Benz | 17,034 | 0.44% | +9.7% |
| 14 | BMW India | 15,142 | 0.39% | +15.1% |
| 15 | Stellantis Automobiles India | 5,462 | 0.14% | −40.8% |
Car sales against the rest of the market
Set against the rest of the market, cars lagged the national picture over CY 2024: +3.5% against +9.1% for every vehicle registered in India.
The table covers every segment Vahan reports over the same 12-month window, so the comparison is like for like — the same months, the same source, on both sides.
Car share of the Indian market, month by month
Cars as a percentage of every vehicle registered that month.
Exact segment volumes over January 2024 to December 2024.
| Segment | CY 2024 units | Share | vs CY 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Two-Wheelers | 1,96,48,497 | 72.14% | +11.0% |
| Cars & UVs | 39,00,386 | 14.32% | +3.5% |
| Three-Wheelers | 12,64,087 | 4.64% | +10.3% |
| Tractors | 9,10,951 | 3.34% | +2.1% |
| Goods Carriers | 8,64,152 | 3.17% | −3.2% |
| Taxis & Cabs | 3,29,510 | 1.21% | +30.5% |
| Other classes | 2,06,374 | 0.76% | −3.4% |
| Buses | 1,13,456 | 0.42% | +28.3% |
What cars run on
Vahan splits a segment by fuel only across a whole calendar year, so this table covers full-year 2024 rather than CY 2024 alone — it is exact for that window.
Petrol accounts for 55.4% of car registrations over full-year 2024, with battery-electric at 2.4%.
Car registrations by fuel — full-year 2024
The full-year 2024 mix.
| Fuel | 2024 units | Share | vs full-year 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Petrol | 21,60,998 | 55.40% | −4.47pp |
| Diesel | 7,23,947 | 18.56% | +0.77pp |
| CNG / LPG | 5,77,011 | 14.79% | +3.16pp |
| Hybrid | 3,42,966 | 8.79% | +0.20pp |
| Electric | 95,183 | 2.44% | +0.34pp |
| Other | 281 | 0.01% | 0.00pp |
Car sales, year by year
Across the 2 completed windows in our Vahan record, car registrations went from 39,00,386 in CY 2024 to 42,69,911 in CY 2025, up 9.5% over the stretch.
CY 2026 is still running — 9 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.
Car registrations by calendar year
* window still in progress.
| Period | Months | Units | YoY |
|---|---|---|---|
| CY 2026 (to date) | 9 | 36,36,636 | +23.1% |
| CY 2025 | 12 | 42,69,911 | +9.5% |
| CY 2024 | 12 | 39,00,386 | +3.5% |
Each row compares only the months that window holds, so a part period is never set against a full one.
Where the demand was
State-level volumes for a single segment come from a calendar-year table, so the figures below cover full-year 2024. Maharashtra leads with 4,49,259 registrations, 11.5% of the segment.
| # | State | Units | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maharashtra | 4,49,259 | 11.5% |
| 2 | Uttar Pradesh | 4,38,221 | 11.2% |
| 3 | Gujarat | 3,42,482 | 8.8% |
| 4 | Karnataka | 2,73,945 | 7.0% |
| 5 | Haryana | 2,69,660 | 6.9% |
| 6 | Tamil Nadu | 2,43,835 | 6.3% |
| 7 | Rajasthan | 2,11,296 | 5.4% |
| 8 | Kerala | 2,02,533 | 5.2% |
| 9 | Delhi | 1,88,289 | 4.8% |
| 10 | Madhya Pradesh | 1,82,276 | 4.7% |
| 11 | Telangana | 1,58,448 | 4.1% |
| 12 | Punjab | 1,47,494 | 3.8% |
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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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