Car Sales October 2025: Maruti Suzuki Leads, 5,50,165 Units Registered
Full Vahan registration report for October 2025 — every major manufacturer ranked, with month-on-month and year-on-year change, segment share, fuel mix and the state-wise picture.
How October went
India's passenger car market registered 5,50,165 vehicles in October 2025. Volumes pushed ahead 14.4% against October 2024, and surged 85.6% on September. It was the biggest month in our 5-year Vahan record.
That is 8 consecutive months of year-on-year growth for the segment. Year to date, 35,03,746 units have been registered across 10 months, +6.6% on the same stretch of 2024 (32,87,328). The segment accounted for 13.2% of every vehicle registered in India that month.
October is the festive peak. Navratri and Diwali make it the single biggest registration month of most years, so year-on-year comparisons swing on where the festivals fall.
These are privately registered cars and UVs. Vahan books taxis and cabs as a class of their own, another 39,574 in October 2025, and passenger-vehicle figures published elsewhere usually include them. With taxis, the month comes to 5,89,739.
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 2,20,853 registrations, ahead of Tata Motors (PV) on 70,789 — a gap of 1,50,064 units, wider than the 76,267 it held in September.
Skoda grew fastest among the segment's biggest names at +42.3% year on year (13,374 units); Hyundai had the hardest month of that group, down 6.1% to 65,746.
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, October 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 | Oct 2025 | MoM | YoY | Share of cars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maruti Suzuki | 2,20,853 | +96.0% | +18.4% | 40.14% |
| 2 | Tata Motors (PV) | 70,789 | +94.5% | +15.6% | 12.87% |
| 3 | Mahindra | 66,973 | +86.7% | +10.0% | 12.17% |
| 4 | Hyundai | 65,746 | +83.8% | −6.1% | 11.95% |
| 5 | Toyota Kirloskar | 35,800 | +67.3% | +24.2% | 6.51% |
| 6 | Kia India | 34,922 | +95.1% | +14.9% | 6.35% |
| 7 | Skoda | 13,374 | +81.1% | +42.3% | 2.43% |
| 8 | Tata Motors (EV) | 7,946 | +14.2% | +23.3% | 1.44% |
| 9 | Honda Cars | 7,559 | +112.5% | +2.2% | 1.37% |
| 10 | MG Motor | 6,674 | +20.0% | +11.7% | 1.21% |
| 11 | Renault India | 5,025 | +100.3% | +13.9% | 0.91% |
| 12 | Mahindra Electric Automobile | 4,046 | +18.1% | — | 0.74% |
| 13 | Nissan India | 2,639 | +92.2% | −2.5% | 0.48% |
| 14 | Mercedes-Benz | 1,933 | +51.0% | +5.2% | 0.35% |
| 15 | BMW India | 1,659 | +22.4% | −2.7% | 0.30% |
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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