Midsize motorcycle market leader sells 10,71,809 units in the domestic market in CY2025 to achieve the million milestone for the first time and surpasses the previous best of 857,378 units in CY2024 with robust 25% YoY growth. It is also on target to sell a million-plus bikes in the current fiscal year.
22 Jan 2026 | 1228 Views | By Ajit Dalvi
Royal Enfield is on a roll. The midsize motorcycle market leader sold a record 10,71,809 units in CY2025, marking the first time that the Chennai-based company has achieved the million-units milestone, in the domestic market, in a calendar year.
The record 1.07 million units sold in CY2025 translate into ...
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Royal Enfield is on a roll. The midsize motorcycle market leader sold a record 10,71,809 units in CY2025, marking the first time that the Chennai-based company has achieved the million-units milestone, in the domestic market, in a calendar year.
The record 1.07 million units sold in CY2025 translate into an additional 214,431 units year on year and constitute handsome 25% YoY growth (CY2024: 857,378 units). The company also exported 132,132 motorcycles last year, registering a strong 36% YoY increase (CY2024: 97,371 units).
Royal Enfield has, at present, 14 models in the domestic market – Bullet 350, Classic 350, Hunter 350, Meteor 350, Goan Classic 350, the 443cc-engine powered Scram 440, the 452cc Himalayan 450 and Guerilla 450, the 650cc twins (Interceptor 650, Continental GT 650), Classic 650, Bear 650, Super Meteor 650 and the Shotgun 650.
These models are classified into five categories of Heritage (Classic 350, Bullet 350, Goan Classic 350 and Classic 650), Cruiser (Meteor 350 and Super Meteor 650), Adventure (Scram 440, Himalayan 450, Bear 650), Pure Sport (Continental GT 650) and Roadster (Hunter 350, Guerilla 450, Shotgun 650 and Interceptor 650).
Royal Enfield, which clocked its highest monthly sales in October (116,844 units), sold a record 1.07 million bikes in India in CY2025, crossing the annual million sales milestone for the first time.
A deep dive into Royal Enfield’s wholesales data for the past 13 years (see table above) reveals that CY2025 is the third year in a row that the bikemaker has surpassed the 800,000 milestone. Annual sales had hit 800,000 for the first time in CY2018 (837,669 units) but fell 17% to 690,913 units the next year and to their lowest in the Covid-impacted CY2020 (538,889 units).
Since then, the company has bounced back on the back of new models and a resurgence in the market for premium, high-powered motorcycles. CY2022 saw demand rise substantially by 28% to 703,156 units, by 17% to 822,295 units in CY2023, 4% in CY2024 (857,378 units) and have now scaled a new high over a million-plus motorcycles in CY2025.
The 12-month sales split for CY2025 shows that monthly dispatches surpassed 100,000 units for three straight months from August to October, with Royal Enfield clocking its highest monthly wholesales in October (116,844 units). The company, which was amongst the first in the Indian automobile industry to announce that it would pass full GST 2.0 rate reduction benefits to customers, slashed prices of its bread-and-butter category – 350cc – by up to Rs 22,000.
Heritage matters: Classic 350 remains Royal Enfield’s best-selling product and commands 37% of the 821,908 motorcycles the midsize motorcycle market leaders sold in April-December 2025.
Royal Enfield’s midsize motorcycle market power comes from its 350cc models. As per SIAM industry wholesales data for April-December 2025, the company sold 821,908 units in the first three quarters of FY2026, up 26% YoY (April-December 2024: 652,856 units). The company has a vice-like grip of the 250-350cc category – the 758,458 bikes (up 29% YoY) sold give it an unassailable 95% share of the overall domestic market sales of 801,250 motorcycles in this category in the current fiscal. Of its four models, the Classic 350 tops with a 40% share, followed by the Bullet 350 (25% share). The Hunter 350 and Meteor 350 contribute the remaining 35% for the April-December 2025 period.
In the 350-500cc category, combined sales of the 452cc Guerilla 450 and Himalayan adventure bike at 27,517 units were down 7% YoY (April-December 2024: 29,519 units). This gives Royal Enfield a 28% market share, below Bajaj Auto. The Pune-based rival (Pulsar NS400Z, 373cc Dominar, Husqvarna Svartpilen 401, KTM RC390, Triumph Speed T4, Speed 400 and Scrambler 400 X) is the leader in this category with 58,050 units, up 21% and a commanding 60% market share. This category’s No. 3 OEM, Hero MotoCorp (Harley-Davidson X440 and Mavrick 440) has seen a 25% sales decline YoY to 9,152 units and a category share of 9 percent.
Like the 350cc segment, Royal Enfield is also the boss of the 500-800cc sub-segment. In the April-December 2025 period, factory dispatches of 35,843 units (up 5% YoY) comprising the 650cc twins (Interceptor 650, Continental GT 650), Super Meteor 650, Bear 650 and the Shotgun 650 and give RE an overwhelming 97% market share of the total 37,071 bikes, leaving the remaining 1,228 units to the other five bikemakers. While Honda sold 609 bikes, Kawasaki sold 427 units, Triumph accounts for 126 units, Suzuki 60 units and Piaggio six).
RE's robust growth in the first nine months of the current fiscal indicate that it is well set to surpass the 1-million milestone for domestic market sales in FY2026. It will also achieve a new fiscal year high for exports.
Royal Enfield has averaged monthly sales of 91,232 units in April-December. With three months left in FY2026, RE will be hitting the million sales milestone for the first time in a fiscal in domestic sales.
MILLION-UNIT DOMESTIC MARKET SALES COMING UP IN FY2026 TOO
As in CY2025, the strong sales momentum continues for Royal Enfield in the ongoing fiscal year FY2026. In the first nine months of FY2026, the company has dispatched a total of 821,908 motorcycles, up 26% on year-ago dispatches (April-December 2024: 652,856 units). Similar to CY2024, festive October 2025 (116,844 units) delivered best-ever monthly domestic market wholesales – was the best month last year as well as in the current fiscal year FY2026.
With three months still to go for FY2026 to end and Royal Enfield having averaged monthly sales of 91,323 units between April-December 2025, expect the bikemaker to surpass the 1-million units mark in domestic market sales for the first time in a fiscal in FY2026. Royal Enfield had clocked a million sales in FY2025 – 10,09,899 units – but with a difference: they were combined domestic (902,757 units) and export (107,142 units) sales.
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