Kia India, like Mahindra & Mahindra and Tata Motors as well as Toyota India, is set to register its highest wholesales (factory dispatches) in a fiscal year. After the first 11 months, the Indian arm of the Korean car and SUV manufacturer has clocked sales of 259,923 units, up 13% YoY (April 2024-February 2025: 229,682 units). This leaves it just 9,306 units shy of its highest total yet – 269,229 units in FY2023.

In FY2025, Kia India (255,207 units) was ranked sixth amongst the top six passenger vehicle manufacturers after Maruti Suzuki (1.76 million PVs), Hyundai Motor India (598,666 units), Tata Motors (569,245 units), Mahindra & Mahindra (551,487 PVs) and Toyota Kirloskar Motor (309,230 units).

Eleven months into FY2026, it holds onto the same No. 6 position with 259,923 units behind Maruti Suzuki (1,656,910 units, up 3%), Mahindra (600,004 units, up 19%), Tata Motors (565,195 units), Hyundai Motor India (529,842 units, down 3%) and Toyota Kirloskar Motor (331,804 units, up 18%). If Kia India registers another round of 27,000-plus sales in March, as it has done in January and February 2026, its total FY2026 wholesales will cross the 285,000 mark and register 12% YoY growth. 

Kia India has sold a total of 1.45 million units in the domestic market till February 2026. While the first 750,000 units took 49 months, the next 750,000 units have been sold in 42 months.

Kia India, which kicked off domestic market sales in August 2019 as a virtually unknown brand in the country at the time, has sold a total of 1.45 million vehicles in the domestic market over the past six-and-a-half years. While the company took 45 months after market entry to clock the 700,000-units milestone (domestic sales) in April 2023, the next 700,000 units have been sold in 34 months with the 1.4 million mark being crossed in December 2025 when Kia India clocked total sales of 14,02,157 units. 

On the export front, Kia India has exported a total of 287,151 vehicles since August 2019. The Seltos, the first made-in-India Kia model to be shipped overseas, with 155,224 units accounts for a 54% share, followed by the Sonet (103,778 units, 36% share), Carens (28,008 units, 10% share) and the Carnival (141 units, 0.04% share). FY2023 (85,756 units) was the best export year for the company. In the current fiscal’s first 10 months, a total of 23,703 units have been shipped overseas with the Sonet (11,709 units) being the highest in demand, followed by the Carens (6,910 units) and the Seltos (5,084 units).

India’s Growing Stature in Kia Global Operations

As a result of its sustained growth, Kia India’s contribution is now even more strategic in Kia’s global scheme of things. Over the past six-and-a-half years, the Indian operation’s share of Kia global sales has steadily increased – from 5.45% in CY2020 to 6.61% in CY2021, 8.77% in CY2022 and now at its highest level at 8.93% in CY2025.

Since its market entry in August 2019 with a single product (Seltos), Kia India is now a formidable player in India’s passenger vehicle market with nine vehicles – the Seltos midsize SUV, Sonet and Syros compact SUVs, Carens, Carens Clavis, Carens Clavis EV and Carnival MPVs, and the EV6 and EV9 (CBU EVs). Kia India’s sales and service network is currently spread across 849 touchpoints across 382 cities. 

Of the nine models, the top three growth drivers comprise the Sonet compact SUV, Carens MPV and Seltos midsize SUV. Of the 232,313 vehicles sold in the first 10 months of FY2026 (up 13.51% YoY), the Sonet (92,380 units) had the largest share of 40%, followed by the Carens (66,454 units, 29% share), Seltos (62,398 units, 27% share), Syros compact SUV (10,347 units, 4% share), Carnival MPV (732 units, 0.31% share) and the EV6, EV9 (2 units).

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