Riding on massive consumer demand for passenger vehicles coming its way as a result of reduced GST and vehicle prices, Maruti Suzuki India registered its third-highest monthly production numbers in September. The 198,316 PVs manufactured in September 2025 marked a 26.55% YoY increase in monthly output (September 2024: 156,709 PVs).
The company’s highest-ever monthly production was in January 2025 (201,984 units) and the second-highest monthly output was exactly a year before that, in January 2024 (200,767 units). January 2025 and January 2024 are the only months when cumulative PV production from all Maruti Suzuki’s plants has crossed 200,000 units. It is to be noted that this monthly production count excludes the Maruti Super Carry, which is a small commercial vehicle.
October 2025, which is the festive month of Diwali, bids fair to beat January 2025’s record production. Though the PV market leader has seen its UV sales decline for four months in a row, the sales surge it has witnessed during Navratri should continue in October and November. Reason enough for the company to have ramped up production in September.
Last month saw Maruti Suzuki plants roll out 198,316 units – 41,607 units more than it did a year ago. To cater to the increase in bookings for its cars, production of the hatchback six-pack (Baleno, Celerio, Dzire, Ignis, Swift, Wagon R, and Toyota Glanza) rose by 36% to 93,301 units. The entry-level Alto and S-Presso though saw their combined numbers up by only 1% YoY to 12,318 units. And, with over 25,000 bookings for the recently launched Victoris midsize SUV and growing demand for some of its other UVs, production of the UV portfolio (Brezza, Ertiga, Fronx, Jimny, XL6, Victoris, and three rebadged UVs for Toyota) rose by 27% to 79,496 units in September.
It is learnt that Maruti Suzuki has over 250,000 bookings in hand as of early October and to maintain a high level of shipments to dealers across the country, and thereon to car and SUV buyers, it can be expected that October 2025 will see production of over 210,000 PVs which will make it the month of highest production yet for the company.
In February 2025, the first of the plants at Kharkhoda in Haryana became operational with a capacity of 250,000 units, raising the company’s total capacity to 2.6 million units per annum.
Four facilities and 2.6 million units-per-annum capacity
Maruti Suzuki, which is the market leader in both domestic and export sales, has a current manufacturing capacity of 2.6 million PVs per annum at present. This is split between four facilities – Gurugram (700,000 units), Manesar (900,000 units), Hansalpur (750,000 units) and Kharghoda (250,000 units). The Hansalpur plant in Gujarat and the Kharghoda plant in Haryana, which began operations in February this year, are both scalable to one million units per annum.
Along with rolling out 18 models comprising seven hatchbacks (Alto, S-Presso, Baleno, Celerio, Ignis, Swift, Wagon R), two sedans (Dzire and Ciaz; production of the Ciaz has ceased from March 2025), six SUVs (Brezza, Fronx, Grand Vitara, Invicto, Jimny, Victoris), two MPVs (Ertiga and XL6), and one van (Eeco), Maruti Suzuki plants also manufacture four Maruti-rebadged models for Toyota (Glanza, Hyryder, Taisor and Rumion).
Maruti Suzuki needs to produce another 415,707 PVs this year to surpass its record annual output of 2.02 million unis in CY2024. Given the current demand scenario, it should easily achieve that.
SIAM production data reveals that Maruti Suzuki plants have rolled out a total of 1.60 million (16,09,644 units) in the first nine months of this year. This constitutes a 5% YoY increase (January-September 2024: 15,31,194 units) and leaves it 415,706 units shy of its record CY2024 output of 20,25,350 units.
Given that Maruti Suzuki will have already put its shoulder to the manufacturing wheel to cater to the humungous demand in the nine days of Navratri as well as the large number of bookings pouring in every day, expect this gap of 415,706 PVs to be bridged and surpassed by end-November, if not mid-December.
It is estimated that Maruti Suzuki, which achieved the 30 million production milestone in March 2024, 40 years and 4 months after it began manufacturing operations in India in December 1983, will have produced a total of 33.3 million units till end-September 2025.
Given the growing potential of the domestic market as well as the demand for made-in-India PVs, Maruti Suzuki’s future capacity expansion roadmap envisages scaling up of production to 4 million units per annum by FY2031.
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