VAHAN market brief · Aug 2026

Aug 2026 recorded 84,369 4W passenger-vehicle registrations across the locked VAHAN scope. It is a partial month that will continue to be refreshed. Year-on-year comparisons are withheld while the month is partial.

FY 2026-27 registrations through Aug 2026 total 17,57,009, +3.6% versus the same elapsed months of FY 2025-26. The published release is vahan-20260809T081129Z-78d1e743, observed 2026-08-09T08:19:48.920415+00:00.

Maruti Suzuki led with 34,439 registrations and 40.8% market share. Its year-on-year share comparison is withheld until the month closes.

The top three OEMs accounted for 66.4% of the month. Public and Pro Lens use the matching month one year earlier for monthly YoY comparisons; financial-year comparisons use equal elapsed months in consecutive fiscal years.

Petrol remained the largest bucket at 48.9% penetration. EV registrations were 6,691, or 7.9% of the market.

Maharashtra (9,963), Uttar Pradesh (8,006), Tamil Nadu (7,378) were the three largest state/UT markets in the published month. State totals, OEM shares and fuel shares are regenerated from the same canonical release used by public and Pro Lens.

Autiqa independently reconciles All India and state-level downloads, verifies OEM and fuel shares, and checks generated public and Pro aggregates before publication. The reporting cutoff for this release is 2026-08-01.