Launched in October 2015, the Baleno has sold over 1.69 million units in India and nearly 400,000 abroad, accounting for 51% of total Nexa sales as its best-selling model.
28 Oct 2025 | 3780 Views | By Ajit Dalvi
The Maruti Baleno, launched on October 26, 2015, has turned a decade old. Over the past 10 years, the stylish premium hatchback sold exclusively from the carmaker’s Nexa showrooms, has clocked sales of over 2 million units. This comprises 16,98,014 units in the domestic market till end-September 2025 and 396,999 ...
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The Maruti Baleno, launched on October 26, 2015, has turned a decade old. Over the past 10 years, the stylish premium hatchback sold exclusively from the carmaker’s Nexa showrooms, has clocked sales of over 2 million units. This comprises 16,98,014 units in the domestic market till end-September 2025 and 396,999 units as exports till August 2025.
As the decadal wholesales data table below reveals, the Baleno’s best fiscal sales came in FY2019 – 212,330 units (up 11%), when it accounted for 16% of Maruti Suzuki’s passenger car and sedan sales of 12,87,023 units. At the time, the Baleno was sold with petrol and diesel powertrains. However, with the company’s exit from the diesel engine market in March 2020, the Baleno felt the heat of slowing sales and as a result, demand fell for three fiscals in a row and hit a low of 148,187 units in FY2022.
FY2019 (212,230 units), when it was offered with petrol and diesel engines, was the Baleno’s best fiscal. Sales rose again in FY2023 (202,901 units) when the second-gen model was launched.
Following the launch of the second-generation model in February 2022, Baleno sales recovered in FY2023 (202,901 units, up 37% YoY) and crossed the 200,000 milestone for the second time in a decade. However, since then, sales have fallen year on year – by 4% to 195,607 units in FY2024, and then by 14% to 167,161 units in FY2025. In the current fiscal’s first half, 71,989 units have been sold, down 7% on year-ago sales of 77,872 units.
The Baleno, which is now sold with petrol and CNG engines, remains a regular in the Top 10 passenger car sales chart. In FY2024, it was ranked No. 2 and in FY2025, it was the No 3 with sibling Wagon R topping the No. 1 car ranking.
Baleno: best-selling Nexa model by far
The snazzy Baleno hatchback is the premium Nexa channel’s best-selling model by a huge margin over all other models, be they passenger car, SUV or MPV. Since its launch 10 years ago, the Baleno with 1.69 million units accounts for 51% of combined Nexa model sales (cars and UVs) of 3.34 million units till end-September 2025.
Of the 2.20 million Nexa cars and sedans sold since FY2016, the Baleno accounts for 77 percent.
Specific to the Nexa passenger car portfolio, the Baleno’s share jumps to 77% of the 2.20 million Nexa cars and sedans (Baleno, Ignis and Ciaz) sold to date.
The snazzy Baleno raced past a million units in October 2021, taking just 72 months or six years to achieve the milestone. The 1.5 million domestic sales mark was crossed in June 2023, eight-and-a-half years since the model was launched in India. Since then, till end-September 2025, another 198,000-odd Balenos have been sold in India, taking the overall domestic market total to 1.69 million units. Along with nearly 400,000 units shipped to overseas markets, the Baleno is a millionaire twice over.
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