The gap between Hero and Honda is more than 1.30 lakh units.
03 Jul 2025 | 741 Views | By Dinshaw Magol, Autocar India
Sales numbers for each of the big six two-wheeler manufacturers are here and here’s how each company performed in June 2025.
Market leader Hero sits at the top with over 5 lakh units sold, recording 7.39 percent growth over May 2025’s sales (4,88,997 units) in ...
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Sales numbers for each of the big six two-wheeler manufacturers are here and here’s how each company performed in June 2025.
Market leader Hero sits at the top with over 5 lakh units sold, recording 7.39 percent growth over May 2025’s sales (4,88,997 units) in the process. Even in comparison to its June 2024 sales of 4,91,416 units, Hero reported a 6.86 percent increase. Last month, Hero and its partner Harley-Davidson announced prices for the 2025 big bike lineup of the fabled American brand.
While Honda has been neck and neck or sometimes even overtaken Hero for the number 1 position in the Indian market, June 2025 saw it record a 6.82 percent decline over May 2025’s 4,17,256 units. Its 19.43 percent decrease in sales in comparison to June 2024 (4,82,597 units) was even sharper. Honda has been on the offensive in the big bike space in India of late and last month, it brought the 2025 Transalp XL750 middleweight adventure bike to India.
As is customary, TVS trails Hero and Honda and in June 2025, the Hosur-based major reported a 9.14 percent decrease compared to its sales for May 2025 (3,09,287 units). However, it did report a 9.89 percent increase when compared to its June 2024 sales tally of 2,55,734 units. It bears mentioning that these numbers don’t include those of the iQube, which has been India’s bestselling electric scooter for three months on the trot now. TVS recently updated its Apache 200 and Apache 160 2V with new features and colours and the Ntorq scooter recently surpassed the 2 million units sales milestone.
Bajaj too is in its de facto number four position and in June 2025, it reported a substantial 21.99 percent decrease in comparison to May 2025’s sales figure of 1,91,412 units. The Chakan-based company also reported a decrease of 15.74 percent when compared to June 2024 (1,77,207 units). The company includes the sales of the Chetak electric scooter (second bestseller in the market after TVS iQube) into this figure. Bajaj is working on yet another 125cc bike (it already has four existing models in that displacement range) which is reported to break cover in FY26.
Suzuki has surpassed the 1 lakh units sales milestone for quite a few months now, but its June 2025 sales figure stopped a little short of that mark. In the process, the company recorded a 11.63 percent decline - it sold 1,07,780 units in May - but in comparison to its June 2024 sales tally (71,086 units), it reported a big 33.98 percent increase. Last month, Suzuki launched the OBD2B-compliant version of the V-Strom 800DE middleweight adventure bike.
Last but certainly not least, we have Royal Enfield, which reported a marginal 1.50 percent increase in June compared to its May 2025 sales of 75,820 units. Even in comparison to its numbers for June 2024 (66,117 units), it reported a 16.40 percent increase. The company recently resumed sales of the Scram 440 and has also revised the price of the tubeless rims it offers as an accessory on the Himalayan 450.