Passenger vehicle dispatches from manufacturers to dealers rose 27 per cent year-on-year in December 2025, driven by strong demand for utility vehicles, industry body Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) said on Tuesday.
Passenger vehicle wholesales got off to a positive start in fiscal 2025–26, registering nearly 4% growth in April to 348,847 units.
In the Financial Year 2024-25, the automobile exports from India rose by 19 per cent to over 5.3 million units, driven by robust demand for passenger vehicles, two-wheelers, and commercial vehicles in the overseas markets.
Currently, India exports around 14.6% of the PVs produced here and 16.34% of two- wheelers manufactured between January and November.
As per the data released by the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), this follows a 2.5 pc decline in July 2024, marking a slowdown after the segment grew by 3% in the first quarter (April-June) of FY24.
The Indian automotive industry in August rolled out about 23.85 lakh vehicles comprising passenger carriers, three/two wheelers and quadricycles, according…
The two-wheeler sales rose 1,426,865 units in February 2021, compared to 1,294,787 units, representing a growth of 10.20 per cent.
The industry body’s data showed that two-wheeler dispatches to dealers also rose 6.63 per cent to 14,29,928 units, compared to 13,41,005 units in January 2020.
The demand for three-wheelers is yet to revive and sales in December plunged nearly 59 per cent to 22,126 units, showed the SIAM data.
In the October-December quarter this fiscal, passenger vehicle sales increased 14.44 per cent to 8,97,908 units from 7,84,616 units in the year-ago period.
