Passenger Vehicle (PV) Sales May 2025: Maruti Suzuki Leads, 3,24,005 Units Registered
Full Vahan registration report for passenger vehicles (cars, UVs and taxis) in May 2025 — every major manufacturer ranked, with month-on-month and year-on-year change, segment share, fuel mix and the state-wise picture.
How May went
India's passenger vehicle market registered 3,24,005 vehicles in May 2025. Volumes held steady (+0.2%) against May 2024, and contracted 13.6% on April.
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 May 2025 that was 2,97,308 cars and UVs and 26,697 taxis and cabs; taxis were 8.2% of the total. Against May 2024, cars and UVs were +0.7% and taxis −4.9%.
That is 3 consecutive months of year-on-year growth for the segment. Year to date, 18,84,277 units have been registered across 5 months, +5.2% on the same stretch of 2024 (17,90,580). The segment accounted for 14.0% of every vehicle registered in India that month.
May is the pre-monsoon window — rural demand is still waiting on the first rains.
For longer windows, see PV sales for Q1 FY 2025-26, FY 2025-26 and calendar year 2025.
Monthly passenger vehicle 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 1,23,608 registrations, ahead of Mahindra on 44,606 — a gap of 79,002 units, narrower than the 95,488 it held in April.
Skoda grew fastest among the segment's biggest names at +34.3% year on year (9,321 units); Hyundai had the hardest month of that group, down 13.4% to 40,941.
On share rather than volume — the number that decides who is actually winning — Toyota Kirloskar has added 0.80pp of the segment in 2025, while Hyundai has given up 1.28pp.
Top 10 manufacturers, May 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 | May 2025 | MoM | YoY | Share of passenger vehicles |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maruti Suzuki | 1,23,608 | −15.0% | −3.6% | 38.15% |
| 2 | Mahindra | 44,606 | −10.7% | +26.0% | 13.77% |
| 3 | Hyundai | 40,941 | −12.7% | −13.4% | 12.64% |
| 4 | Tata Motors (PV) | 33,696 | −18.1% | −10.9% | 10.40% |
| 5 | Toyota Kirloskar | 24,433 | −6.6% | +22.9% | 7.54% |
| 6 | Kia India | 18,435 | −21.7% | −9.6% | 5.69% |
| 7 | Skoda | 9,321 | −12.2% | +34.3% | 2.88% |
| 8 | MG Motor | 5,959 | +3.1% | +25.7% | 1.84% |
| 9 | Tata Motors (EV) | 5,060 | −4.6% | −6.7% | 1.56% |
| 10 | Honda Cars | 4,526 | −14.5% | −12.3% | 1.40% |
| 11 | Mahindra Electric Automobile | 2,635 | −11.8% | — | 0.81% |
| 12 | Renault India | 2,467 | −13.9% | −32.7% | 0.76% |
| 13 | Nissan India | 1,605 | −15.8% | −22.7% | 0.50% |
| 14 | Mercedes-Benz | 1,431 | −1.1% | +15.5% | 0.44% |
| 15 | BMW India | 1,178 | −16.0% | +6.7% | 0.36% |
Registrations inside the segment only, counted with Vahan's own vehicle-class filter, so each number is that manufacturer's passenger vehicle volume (its cars and UVs plus its taxis and cabs). 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 passenger vehicle 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 | 18,45,887 | 39.87% | −0.43pp |
| 2 | Mahindra | 5,80,755 | 12.55% | +0.54pp |
| 3 | Hyundai | 5,80,070 | 12.53% | −1.28pp |
| 4 | Tata Motors (PV) | 5,10,898 | 11.04% | −0.56pp |
| 5 | Toyota Kirloskar | 3,30,400 | 7.14% | +0.80pp |
| 6 | Kia India | 2,72,210 | 5.88% | −0.04pp |
| 7 | Skoda | 1,14,621 | 2.48% | +0.47pp |
| 8 | Tata Motors (EV) | 76,316 | 1.65% | +0.14pp |
| 9 | MG Motor | 72,182 | 1.56% | +0.23pp |
| 10 | Honda Cars | 65,815 | 1.42% | −0.30pp |
| 11 | Renault India | 36,414 | 0.79% | −0.17pp |
| 12 | Mahindra Electric Automobile | 30,420 | 0.66% | +0.66pp |
| 13 | Nissan India | 21,925 | 0.47% | −0.15pp |
| 14 | Mercedes-Benz | 18,079 | 0.39% | −0.02pp |
| 15 | BMW India | 17,682 | 0.38% | +0.02pp |
Fuel mix
Petrol accounts for 48.4% of the segment's registrations in 2025. Electric is at 4.23%, a move of +1.74pp on 2024 on volume of 1,95,852 units.
Passenger Vehicle fuel mix, 2025
Share of segment registrations year to date
The full-year 2025 mix.
| Fuel | 2025 units | Share | vs full-year 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Petrol | 22,41,848 | 48.43% | −4.23pp |
| CNG / LPG | 9,89,224 | 21.37% | +3.18pp |
| Diesel | 8,34,247 | 18.02% | −0.21pp |
| Hybrid | 3,67,463 | 7.94% | −0.48pp |
| Electric | 1,95,852 | 4.23% | +1.74pp |
| Other | 683 | 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 5,63,020 registrations, 12.2% of the segment's national total. Uttar Pradesh (5,09,477) and Gujarat (3,86,923) followed. Kerala has gained the most ground, adding 0.42pp of the national total.
Segment registrations over full-year 2025, by state.
| # | State | Units | Share | vs full-year 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maharashtra | 5,63,020 | 12.2% | +0.33pp |
| 2 | Uttar Pradesh | 5,09,477 | 11.0% | −0.04pp |
| 3 | Gujarat | 3,86,923 | 8.4% | −0.08pp |
| 4 | Karnataka | 3,35,246 | 7.2% | −0.15pp |
| 5 | Haryana | 3,23,107 | 7.0% | −0.14pp |
| 6 | Tamil Nadu | 3,11,001 | 6.7% | +0.23pp |
| 7 | Rajasthan | 2,58,787 | 5.6% | +0.32pp |
| 8 | Kerala | 2,47,965 | 5.4% | +0.42pp |
| 9 | Madhya Pradesh | 2,09,338 | 4.5% | +0.04pp |
| 10 | Delhi | 1,94,484 | 4.2% | −0.41pp |
| 11 | Punjab | 1,80,073 | 3.9% | +0.14pp |
| 12 | Telangana | 1,75,847 | 3.8% | −0.41pp |
Frequently asked questions
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Source. Every figure is a vehicle registration, taken 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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