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Leading automakers are ramping up production and building dealer inventory to meet strong customer demand as India enters the peak festive buying season, with manufacturers seeking to ensure adequate vehicle availability and convert healthy bookings into retail sales. Car market leader Maruti Suzuki India has 2.2 lakh pending bookings ahead of the festive season, while Hyundai Motor India has built four-five weeks of inventory across its dealer network. Mahindra & Mahindra, meanwhile, has scaled up its utility vehicle and electric vehicle manufacturing capacity to 68,000 units a month to improve supply and bring down waiting periods. Maruti Suzuki India's Senior Executive Officer Partho Banerjee told PTI, "At the beginning of this financial year, we had 12 days of stock. The current bookings pendency is 2.2 lakhs, which translates to 16 days of stock before the festive season. "We have already commissioned two new production lines, adding 5 lakhs capacity in total. The production .

The industry is tapping into rising Western defence spending, but executives and analysts told Reuters the opportunities to materially boost revenue remain limited.

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The ministry has also asked OEMs to make customers more aware of FFVs, as sales have not picked up to the expected level

JSW MG Motor India reported a 14 per cent year-on-year rise in August wholesales, reaching 7,508 units, the company announced on Tuesday. The sales volume during August 2025 were recorded at 6,578 units. The company said it continued its strong momentum across both its Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) and New Energy Vehicle (NEV) portfolios during the reporting month. JSW MG Motor India last month launched its Tomahawk SUV, built on the company's first SUV on its Multi-New Energy Vehicle platform, ADAPT. The latest SUV model Tomahawk is available in both EV and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) powertrain options. The company has also commenced dispatches of the MG Hector Tomahawk EV to dealerships across India, JSW MG Motor India said.

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Maruti Suzuki, Tata Motors and Mahindra discussed concerns over chloride and moisture in E20 fuel even as the industry publicly backed the government's ethanol rollout

Volkswagen plans to halve its model range as second-quarter sales fell 8.6 per cent, with a sharp decline in China weighing on the German automaker's performance

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Puri asserted that the Flex Fuel Vehicles offer India a practical solution to reduce crude oil imports, strengthen the rural economy through ethanol demand, and advance low-carbon mobility

The testing agency has eased domestic value addition certification norms for export models after automakers argued that additional paperwork increased compliance burdens

Hyundai Motor India Ltd (HMIL) on Monday reported a 9.1 per cent year-on-year increase in domestic sales at 47,837 units in May 2026. With exports of 13,300 units, HMIL's total monthly sales stood at 61,137 units last month, marking a 4.1 per cent year-on-year growth, the company said in a regulatory filing. Commenting on May sales results, Tarun Garg, MD & CEO, HMIL, said, "Hyundai Motor India has continued its strong momentum of the year into May as well, achieving domestic sales of 47,837 units with 9.1 per cent YoY growth and total sales of 61,137 units with 4.1 per cent YoY growth". He further stated that in the first two months (April and May) of FY27, HMIL witnessed domestic sales rise by 13 per cent to 99,739 units, compared to 88,235 units in the same period of FY26.

Automakers flag new export certification rules under the PLI scheme, saying added compliance burdens risk undermining ease-of-doing-business goals

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways plans to widen emission testing standards for flex-fuel vehicles that can run on 100 per cent ethanol (E100), in a bid to boost production of such vehicles.

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Maruti Suzuki India Ltd is aiming to scale up its service network to around 8,000 touchpoints by FY 2030-31, its Managing Director & CEO Hisashi Takeuchi said on Friday. The company added 502 new service touchpoints in FY 2025-26, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (MSIL) said in a statement. "As our customers are spread across the nation and their requirements continue to evolve, we are continuously innovating and expanding our service touchpoints... Currently, we have 5,926 touchpoints, and we aim to expand this network to around 8,000 touchpoints by FY 2030-31," Takeuchi said. Noting that for a car customer, nothing gives more comfort than knowing that they can easily find a service touchpoint and spare parts whenever and wherever they need them, he said the company's service touchpoint is always within reach. Customers can visit a workshop, opt for doorstep service, get their vehicle serviced at locations they frequently visit, or seek service support during a road trip, Takeuchi ...