How many vehicles Indians actually drove home each month — two-wheelers, cars, tractors, trucks and more — from FADA's retail registration data, sourced from the government's VAHAN portal. Retail is what left the showroom, not what makers shipped to dealers.
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Monthly units · April 2023 – September 2026
Reading the numbers. These are retail sales — vehicles registered at RTOs when a buyer takes delivery — not wholesale dispatches to dealers. FADA compiles them from the Ministry of Road Transport's VAHAN portal (~1,460 of ~1,470 RTOs). The recurring October–November peaks are the festive season; October 2025 is amplified by the September 2025 GST 2.0 rate cut, which pulled buyers off the fence — note the matching September dip. The Total follows FADA's headline. Each point is the month’s figure as first published in that month’s FADA release. The year-on-year growth is FADA’s own: this month’s count against the year-ago month as FADA reprints it in the same release. FADA keeps back-dating registrations to VAHAN for weeks, so that year-ago figure is usually a few percent higher than the one first published a year earlier. That is why a month’s growth can’t always be read off the two points on the chart. Construction equipment sat inside Commercial Vehicles until April 2025 and has been its own category since May 2025, so the Commercial Vehicles line steps down slightly there; FADA restated the year-ago figures, so the growth rates are unaffected. The fiscal-year-to-date figure is FADA’s own cumulative table.
Source: FADA monthly Vehicle Retail Data (VAHAN) · FY24–FY27 · PolityPolicy · India, in Numbers · by Tushar Gupta
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