While sales in Hyundai Motor’s home market of South Korea at 354,900 units in January-June rose 2.66% YoY, the rest of the world’s 17,12,056 units were down 0.35%. The key India market, which saw an 8% decline with 285,809 cars and SUVs in January-June 2025, saw its share of Hyundai’s global sales reduce to 13.82% from a record high of 14.61% in CY2024.
30 Jul 2025 | 6851 Views | By Ajit Dalvi
Hyundai Motor, which announced its global sales for the second quarter of CY2025 recently, has clocked total sales of 2.06 million vehicles (20,66,956 units) for the January-June 2025 period. This translates into an additional 3,112 units or a marginal 0.15% year-on-year increase (H1 CY2024: 2,063,844 units).
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Hyundai Motor, which announced its global sales for the second quarter of CY2025 recently, has clocked total sales of 2.06 million vehicles (20,66,956 units) for the January-June 2025 period. This translates into an additional 3,112 units or a marginal 0.15% year-on-year increase (H1 CY2024: 2,063,844 units).
The H1 2025 total comprises 1.01 million units, up 0.55%, in Q1 (January-March) and 1.06 million units, up 0.82%, in Q2 (April-June). Sales in the auto major's home market of South Korea at 354,900 units in first-half CY2025 are up 2.66% (H1 CY2024: 345,704 units) while sales for the rest of the world at 17,12,056 units are down 0.35% YoY (H1 CY2024: 17,18,140 units).
While the Korean auto major has not provided country-specific sales details, it can be surmised that the decline of 7.75% to 285,509 units in India (H1 CY2024: 309,768 units), which is one of its key growth markets, would have dragged overall H1 2025 numbers down.
Nevertheless, India – the jewel in Hyundai’s crown – continues to be a key contributor to the Hyundai Motor Group and is the second-best performing global market for the Korean chaebol after the home market of South Korea.
A deep dive into Hyundai’s global and its India market sales reveals that Hyundai Motor India’s share of Hyundai’s global sales has steadily increased over the years – from 12% in CY2018 to 13% in CY2021. It rose to 14% in CY2022, hit its highest level at 14.61% in CY2024 but has now reduced to 13.82% in the January-June 2025 period (see seven-and-a-half year wholesales data table below).
HYUNDAI MOTOR INDIA'S SALES SLOW DOWN IN FIRST-HALF 2025
Hyundai Motor India, which has been the longstanding No. 2 passenger vehicle manufacturer after Maruti Suzuki India, has been feeling the heat of the competition, particularly from Mahindra & Mahindra which sold 301,194 units, up 20% YoY, which is now the new No. 2 PV OEM in the current calendar year.
Hyundai Motor India, whose wholesales witnessed a decline for six straight months from January to June 2025, will have to register a higher level of monthly sales in the coming months if it is to regain its No. 2 rank in the Indian PV industry.
The company has been constrained for manufacturing capacity at its Chennai plants. Once the refurbished Talegaon facility in Pune goes on stream in the next few months, expect Hyundai to up the ante. The first product to roll out from the Talegaon facility, which will have a capacity of 130,000 units, will be a highly localised hybrid SUV in the second half of FY2026. That’s not all.
Hyundai has also committed a mega investment of Rs 26,000 crore in Tamil Nadu over a decade, which will go towards new product development, particularly EVs and also fresh production capacity.
SUVs TAKE 69% SHARE OF HYUNDAI INDIA PASSENGER VEHICLE SALES IN H1 2025
As it is for the leading PV manufacturers in India, SUVs continue to provide the bulk of the sales for Hyundai Motor India which retails 10 models in India — two hatchbacks (Grand i10 Nios, i20), two sedans (Aura, Verna) and six SUVs (Creta / Creta Electric, Venue, Alcazar, Exter, and Tucson along with the all-electric Ioniq 5).
Between January-June 2025, the company has sold 196,713 UVs (down 4.33%, H1 CY2024: 205,833 UVs), which is a 69% share of its total passenger vehicle sales of 285,809 units – up from the 66% UV share in first-half CY2024. This is the highest every achieved for this vehicle category for the company.
In comparison, hatchback and sedan sales at 89,096 units are down 14% YoY (H1 CY2024: 103,935 units). Their share of Hyundai’s passenger vehicle sales has dropped to 31% from 33% in H1 CY2024.
Hyundai Motor Co has targeted global sales of 4,174,000 passenger vehicles in CY2025, up 0.77% YoY. This comprises Korea market sales of 710,000 units (up 0.70% YoY) and overseas sales of 3,464,000 units (up 0.79% YoY). Clearly, the focus will be even more on its Indian operations to deliver better than in previous years.
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