Maruti Suzuki

The momentum was not limited to retail-focused segments, the brokerage noted. The medium and heavy commercial vehicle (MHCV) industry showed clear signs of revival after a prolonged 15-month downturn.

Maruti Suzuki's Dzire reclaimed the top spot after eight years, outselling SUVs and hatchbacks in 2025 even as utility vehicles accounted for more than half of India's PV market

Maruti Suzuki India Ltd on Friday said it has clocked a record annual production of 22.55 lakh units in calendar year 2025, a growth of 9.3 per cent over the previous year. This is the second consecutive year that the company has exceeded 20 lakh units in annual production. The production includes vehicles for domestic sales, exports and OEM supplies, Maruti Suzuki India said in a statement. The company had produced 20.63 units in 2024. Maruti Suzuki India Managing Director and CEO Hisashi Takeuchi attributed the record production to the efforts of the company's employees and the strong synergy that it shares with supplier partners. "A high degree of localisation has enabled us to achieve such scale while maintaining world-class quality, highlighting the strength and global competitiveness of India's automotive manufacturing ecosystem," he noted. Maruti Suzuki said its top five models by production volume during the year were Fronx, Baleno, Swift, Dzire and Ertiga.

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Maruti Suzuki India will soon take a call on whether to revise upwards prices of its small cars, for which it reduced rates last year over and above the GST benefit of 8.5 per cent, a senior company official said on Thursday. Last year in September, after GST 2.0 kicked in, the company had cut prices of entry-level model S Presso by up to Rs 1,29,600; Alto K10 by up to Rs 1,07,600; Celerio by Rs 94,100 and Wagon-R by up to Rs 79,600, among others. "In the small cars, our purpose of going for the strategic pricing was to increase the motorisation...," Maruti Suzuki India Senior Executive Officer, Marketing & Sales, Partho Banerjee, told reporters in an interaction. He was responding to a query on whether the company is also considering a price hike like other carmakers, including rival Hyundai Motor India, which has announced its plans. "Very soon, we are going to take a call...Are we going to revert back to our GST prices (on the reduced GST rates only) or are we going to continue

Jan 1 (Reuters) - India's top two carmakers, Maruti Suzuki and Mahindra & Mahindra, reported a strong rise in December ‍sales to dealers, ​company data showed on Thursday, with tax cuts from earlier in the year fuelling demand into the final month of 2025.

In passenger vehicles, the brokerage expects the segment to post 19 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) growth in dispatches in December, broadly in line with retail trends.

Over the last ten calendar years (2016-2025), the Sensex has delivered annual returns consistently, albeit uneven. The strongest year of the decade was 2017, when the index surged 27.9 per cent.

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Entry-level vehicles across 2Ws and PVs are seeing a notable pickup in demand, while discounts are expected to gradually reduce, reflecting normalisation in market dynamics.

The WagonR is currently manufactured at Maruti Suzuki's plants in Gurgaon and Manesar, Haryana

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Banerjee identified driving range, inadequate public charging infrastructure, after-sales support and resale value as the biggest challenges to EV adoption in India

Maruti Suzuki India plans to localise battery production and other critical components over the next few years as part of strengthening the overall EV ecosystem in the country. The company, which plans to launch its first electric vehicle - e VITARA in the domestic market next year, is looking to instill confidence in the buyers as it looks to strengthen the overall EV ecosystem. "Right now we are importing the batteries but yes we have a plan for localisation. It is very much on the cards in a phased manner over the next few years," Maruti Suzuki India Senior Executive Officer (Marketing & Sales) Partho Banerjee told reporters here. He noted that the electric vehicle penetration in India will grow only when the consumer has the confidence to buy it as a primary car in the household. "We believe that the customer is not confident (about EVs). The initial products that were launched, and the experiences from those, has created a huge amount of negativity in the minds of people ...

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Maruti Suzuki India on Monday said the scheme of amalgamation with Suzuki Motor Gujarat has become effective from today. Consequent to the effectiveness of the scheme, there has been an increase in the authorised share capital of the company by an amount of Rs 15,000 crore crore the auto major said in a regulatory filing. "We would like to inform that the company has filed the certified copy of the order issued by the Hon'ble National Company Law Tribunal, sanctioning the Scheme of Amalgamation of Suzuki Motor Gujarat, a wholly owned subsidiary (SMG), into and with Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) with the Registrar of Companies, Delhi and accordingly, the scheme becomes effective from today December 1, 2025," it stated. The Appointed Date under the scheme is April 1, 2025 and as such, the amalgamation of SMG into and with MSI has been completed, it added. Maruti Suzuki shares were trading 0.15 per cent up at Rs 15,917.25 apiece on BSE.