VAHAN market brief · Sep 2026

Sep 2026 recorded 4,24,624 4W passenger-vehicle registrations across the locked VAHAN scope. It is a completed published month under Autiqa's eight-day reporting-lag rule. That is +32.9% versus Sep 2025.

FY 2026-27 registrations through Sep 2026 total 25,02,178. +24.1% versus the same elapsed months of FY 2025-26. The published release is vahan-20261005T204451Z-88ebd8e8, observed 2026-10-05T20:55:09.080699+00:00.

Maruti Suzuki led with 1,69,618 registrations and 39.9% market share. Its market share changed -0.7 percentage points versus the same month last year.

The top three OEMs accounted for 66.7% 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 48.7% penetration. EV registrations were 36,372, or 8.6% of the market.

Maharashtra (57,357), Gujarat (37,083), Uttar Pradesh (36,041) 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 2026-09-28.