Thirty-one years and nine months after it was launched in Japan, the practical, spacious and easy-to-live-with urban hatchback sold in over 75 countries and having its largest demand in India achieves new global sales milestone. In India, the Maruti Wagon R has sold an estimated 34,14,176 units till June 2025 including 1.19 million units of the third-gen model introduced in January 2019.
08 Aug 2025 | 7853 Views | By Ajit Dalvi
Suzuki Motor Corporation has announced that its Wagon R series of hatchbacks has driven past cumulative global sales of 10 million units two months ago in June 2025. The milestone was achieved 31 years and 9 months after the Wagon R was launched in Japan in September 1993.
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Suzuki Motor Corporation has announced that its Wagon R series of hatchbacks has driven past cumulative global sales of 10 million units two months ago in June 2025. The milestone was achieved 31 years and 9 months after the Wagon R was launched in Japan in September 1993.
The Wagon R was developed as a semi-bonnet-style hatchback as a comfortable and easy-to-use car. In addition to models exported from Japan, the Wagon R series has been produced in India, Hungary, Indonesia and other regions, and continued to evolve to meet local needs as in the form of the Wagon R CNG in India and the Wagon R Smile, which features sliding doors, in Japan.
India is the largest market for the the Wagon R series, which has been sold in more than 75 countries and regions around the world, including Japan and Europe. The Wagon R, along with other other models (particularly SUVs in the past four years), has been instrumental in Maruti Suzuki being the longstanding passenger vehicle market leader in India.
Wagon R: India’s best-selling passenger vehicle since FY2022
The Maruti Wagon R, currently available with 1.0-litre and 1.2-litre engine options with petrol and CNG powertrains, remains one of Maruti Suzuki India’s best-selling models. It has topped the passenger vehicle sales ranking for the past four fiscal years albeit demand has dropped YoY since FY2023.
In FY2025, Maruti Suzuki sold 198,451 Wagon Rs, down 1% on FY2024 (200,177 units). The Wagon R was also India’s best-selling passenger vehicle in FY2023 (212,340 units) and FY2022 (188,837 units).
Launched in India in December 1999, the Maruti Wagon has close to completing 26 years in the domestic market and is one of the longest surviving models which includes the Honda City and the Mercedes-Benz E-Class. From December 1999 through to end-June 2025, the Wagon R is estimated to have sold 34,14,176 or 3.41 million units. This constitutes a 34% or one-third share of the Wagon R’s global sales to date.
Sales of the Maruti Wagon R have accelerated after the launch of the third-generation Wagon R in January 2019 first as a 1.0-litre petrol model and expanded with a CNG and 1.2-litre petrol engine variants.
The Wagon R was also one of the first Maruti Suzuki models to get a CNG powertrain and remains one of the best-selling models in the company’s extensive CNG model portfolio.
In June 2024, five-and-a-half years after it was launched, the third-generation Wagon R clocked a million-unit sales in India. From launch till June 2025, the estimated wholesales of the third-gen model are 11,99,024 units, giving it a near-12% share of the Wagon R's 10-million global sales.
In the current fiscal year’s first three months (April-June 2025), the Wagon R has sold 40,292 units, down 13% on year-ago sales (Q1 FY2025: 46,132 units). In Q1 FY2026, it was the third best-selling passenger car after the Maruti Dzire (50,564 units) and the Maruti Swift (42,002). On the overall passenger vehicle scale, which includes utility vehicles and vans, it was ranked seventh in the April-June 2025 period.
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