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27 April 2026
Suzuki March 2026 and Fiscal Year 2025
Automobile Production, Sales, and Export Figures
<March 2026>
Production
| March 2026 (units) |
Year-on-Year | Year-on-Year Trends |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global production | 335,624 | 120.5% | Up for the seventh consecutive month | |
| Japan production | 88,243 | 133.4% | Up for the first time in six months | |
| Overseas production | 247,381 | 116.5% | Up for the seventh consecutive month | |
| India | 231,994 | 119.1% | Up for the seventh consecutive month | |
| Others | 15,387 | 88.0% | Down for the second consecutive month | |
- *Japan production: Complete built-up (CBU) units that include OEM units + complete knocked-down (CKD) units
- *Overseas production: Units completed at overseas plants that exclude CKD units from Japan
- Global production:
Record-high production for a single month owing to increase in both Japan and overseas production. - Japan production:
Increased year-on-year owing to increase in production for both Japan and exports. - Overseas production:
Record-high production for a single month mainly owing to record-high Indian production for a single month.
Sales
| March 2026 (units) |
Year-on-Year | Year-on-Year Trends |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global sales | 306,619 | 106.5% | Up for the sixth consecutive month | |
| Japan sales | 72,533 | 100.5% | Up for the first time in five months | |
| Minivehicles | 54,946 | 96.3% | Down for the sixth consecutive month | |
| Standard and small vehicles |
17,587 | 116.0% | Up for the twelfth consecutive month | |
| Overseas sales | 234,086 | 108.5% | Up for the sixth consecutive month | |
| India | 169,428 | 110.6% | Up for the sixth consecutive month | |
| Others | 64,658 | 103.3% | Up for the fourth consecutive month | |
- *Minivehicle: Small-sized car unique to Japan with an overall length of 3.4m or less, an overall width of 1.48m or less, an overall height of 2m or less, and an engine displacement of 660cc or less.
- *Standard and small vehicle: Car that exceeds the above minivehicle specification.
- *India: Indian domestic wholesales figures.
- Japan sales:
Increased year-on-year owing to increase in standard and small vehicle sales which marked record-high for a single month despite decrease in minivehicle sales. - Overseas sales:
Record-high sales for March mainly owing to record-high Indian sales for March.
Exports
| March 2026 (units) |
Year-on-Year | Year-on-Year Trends |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Exports | 22,388 | 180.1% | Up for the first time in two months |
- *Total of exported CBU units + CKD units.
- Increased year-on-year owing to increase in both CBU and CKD exports.
<Fiscal Year 2025 (April 2025 - March 2026)>
Production
| Apr. 2025– Mar. 2026 (units) |
Year-on-Year | Year-on-Year Trends |
Jan.–Mar. 2026 (units) |
Year-on-Year | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global production | 3,532,868 | 107.2% | Up for the fifth consecutive year | 978,555 | 112.6% | |
| Japan production | 975,190 | 98.0% | Down for the second consecutive year | 247,769 | 108.3% | |
| Overseas production | 2,557,678 | 111.1% | Up for the second consecutive year | 730,786 | 114.1% | |
| India | 2,347,056 | 111.7% | Up for the fifth consecutive year | 681,537 | 115.7% | |
| Others | 210,622 | 105.6% | Up for the first time in three years | 49,249 | 95.9% | |
- *Japan production: Complete built-up (CBU) units that include OEM units + complete knocked-down (CKD) units
- *Overseas production: Units completed at overseas plants that exclude CKD units from Japan
- Global production:
Record-high fiscal year production owing to record-high overseas production for a fiscal year. - Japan production:
Decreased year-on-year owing to decrease in production for both Japan and exports. - Overseas production:
Record-high production owing to increase in production in India, Indonesia, etc. India marked record-high fiscal year production.
Sales
| Apr. 2025– Mar. 2026 (units) |
Year-on-Year | Year-on-Year Trends |
Jan.–Mar. 2026 (units) |
Year-on-Year | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global sales | 3,319,975 | 102.4% | Up for the fifth consecutive year | 902,373 | 102.9% | |
| Japan sales | 725,008 | 101.0% | Up for the fourth consecutive year | 197,094 | 98.0% | |
| Minivehicles | 556,632 | 95.2% | Down for the first time in four years | 148,079 | 92.6% | |
| Standard and small vehicles |
168,376 | 126.6% | Up for the fourth consecutive year | 49,015 | 119.4% | |
| Overseas sales | 2,594,967 | 102.8% | Up for the fifth consecutive year | 705,279 | 104.3% | |
| India | 1,861,704 | 103.7% | Up for the fifth consecutive year | 511,858 | 103.5% | |
| Others | 733,263 | 100.7% | Up for the second consecutive year | 193,421 | 106.4% | |
- *Minivehicle: Small-sized car unique to Japan with an overall length of 3.4m or less, an overall width of 1.48m or less, an overall height of 2m or less, and an engine displacement of 660cc or less.
- *Standard and small vehicle: Car that exceeds the above minivehicle specification.
- *India: Indian domestic wholesales figures.
- Japan sales:
Increased year-on-year owing to record-high standard and small vehicle sales for a fiscal year. - Overseas sales:
Increased year-on-year owing to increase in sales in India, Pakistan, Africa, etc.
India and Africa marked record-high fiscal year sales.
Exports
| Apr. 2025– Mar. 2026 (units) |
Year-on-Year | Year-on-Year Trends |
Jan.–Mar. 2026 (units) |
Year-on-Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exports | 208,484 | 96.1% | Down for the third consecutive year | 55,789 | 130.0% |
- *Total of exported CBU units + CKD units.
- Decreased year-on-year owing to decrease in exports of CBUs, despite increase in CKDs.
- *The figures shown are preliminary.