Maruti’s production capacity hits 2,48,845 units in July

On a growth ride:

• Maruti Suzuki reported its best ever PV sales at 1,96,203 units in July 2026

• This against 1,37,776 reported vehicle sales in July last year

• Total domestic sales stood at an all-time high of 2,00,123 units last month

• With the launch of 4th manufacturing unit at Hansalpur, company’s production capacity has reached 29L units per annum

New Delhi: The country's largest automaker Maruti Suzuki India has reported its highest-ever monthly production at 2,48,845 units in July, a jump of 33 per cent, over the same month last year.

The auto major had produced 1,87,073 units in July 2025, as per a regulatory filing by the company.

The company's best monthly production performance till now was in March 2026 when it rolled out 2,31,933 units from its factories.

Despite the record production, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (MSIL) Senior Executive Officer, Marketing & Sales, Partho Banerjee said the company's dealer inventory is much lower compared to average as it registered retail sales of 1.78 lakh units in July.

"Our network stock is just 16 days across the (dealer) network," he said, adding that the company has pending bookings of around 1.6 lakh units.

On an average, the industry dealer inventory is around 30 days.

The car market leader has also reported best ever passenger vehicle wholesales in the domestic market at 1,96,203 units last month as compared to 1,37,776 units in July 2025, a growth of 43 per cent. Total domestic sales, including LCVs, reached an all-time high of 2,00,123 units.

According to the filing, last month the company produced 13,964 units of S-Presso and Alto. It had rolled out 11,484 units in the year-ago period.

Similarly, the company manufactured 1,13,067 units of compact models like Baleno, Celerio, and Swift last month, an increase of 29 per cent as against 87,950 units in July 2025.

Production of utility vehicles like Brezza, Ertiga, and Fronx rose to 1,02,787 units last month as compared with 70,241 units in July last year, a jump of 46 per cent.

The company said it manufactured 14,627 units of Eeco van last month, an increase of 7 per cent as against 13,610 units in July last year. Similarly, production of light commercial vehicle Super Carry rose to 4,400 units as compared with 3,788 units in the same month last year.

With the start of production at the fourth plant (Plant D) at Hansalpur, Maruti Suzuki's total manufacturing capacity across Haryana and Gujarat has risen to 29 lakh units per annum.

Passenger vehicle dispatches in the domestic market are estimated to have risen 33 per cent to about 4.7 lakh units in July this year, riding on record volumes led by market leader Maruti Suzuki, along with Hyundai.

Homegrown majors Tata Motors and Mahindra & Mahindra also clocked high double-digit growth as the passenger vehicle industry continued to ride on the wave of impetus from GST 2.0, reduced repo rates and income tax relief on income of up to Rs 12 lakh. "Industry (passenger vehicle sales) should be around 4.65 lakh to 4.7 lakh in July this year. In July last year, the industry was around 3.5 lakh, so it is almost a growth of 33 per cent," Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (MSIL) Senior Executive Officer, Marketing & Sales, Partho Banerjee, told reporters in a conference call.

About the growth drivers for the industry, he said GST 2.0, repo rate cuts, income tax relief to entry-level customers have continued to fuel sales since last year.

"Fundamentally, these three tailwinds are very much there," Banerjee noted.

Hyundai Motor India Ltd (HMIL) also reported its best-ever domestic monthly sales at 54,210 units in July, up 23.3 per cent from the same month last year.

Similarly, Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles Ltd (TMPVL) also reported a 58 per cent jump in domestic passenger vehicle (PV) sales at 62,611 units last month as compared to 39,521 units in July 2025.

Homegrown rival Mahindra & Mahindra posted a 20 per cent growth in utility vehicle sales in the domestic market at 60,048 units last month as against 49,871 units in July 2025.

Honda Cars India Ltd (HCIL) said it recorded domestic sales growth of over 48 per cent, with 6,014 units sold during the month.

Another carmaker Toyota Kirloskar Motor reported a 5 per cent rise in domestic sales at 30,516 units in July 2026 as compared to 29,159 units in the same month last year.

Kia India also reported a 27.4 per cent rise in wholesale dispatches at 28,200 units in July 2026 as compared to 22,135 units in the same month last year. It was the company's best-ever July wholesale performance since its inception.