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Passenger vehicle registrations grow 23.9% YoY, but decline 5.4% MoM India’s passenger vehicle registration market posted a strong year-on-year performance in May 2026, supported by healthy retail demand and a strong showing from market leader Maruti Suzuki. As per Vahan registration data, the top 15 OEMs together recorded 3,97,301 units in May 2026, compared to 3,20,612 units i...

Japan’s banks, manufacturers and automakers are increasingly looking at India as the next big growth market. For India’s automobile sector, this could mean more factories, deeper localization, stronger export ambitions and easier vehicle financing. For decades, Japan’s corporate expansion in Asia was closely tied to China. Japanese banks financed Japanese manufacturers, Japanese...

Maruti Suzuki has introduced the Wagon R Flex-Fuel, making it India’s first flex-fuel passenger vehicle. The move marks an important step in the country’s push towards cleaner and more locally sourced fuels. The new Wagon R Flex-Fuel is designed to run on E85 fuel, which contains up to 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent petrol. Compared to regular petrol cars, flex-fuel vehicles ...

India’s sedan market delivered a surprisingly strong performance in May 2026, with total sales of the listed sedans standing at 37,055 units, compared to 30,646 units in May 2025. This translates to a healthy 20.9% year-on-year growth, showing that despite the SUV wave, sedans continue to have a loyal customer base in India. The growth was led almost single-handedly by the Marut...

Tata Motors has changed its plans for the Avinya EV range. Instead of using Jaguar Land Rover’s EMA platform as originally planned, Tata will now build Avinya cars on the Freelander platform developed jointly by JLR and Chinese automaker Chery. The first production model from this range, called the Avinya X, is expected to arrive in 2027. Why This Matters Avinya is Tata’s premiu...