The Automotive industry in India is one of the largest in the world and one of the fastest growing globally. India manufactures over 11 million 2 and 4-wheeled vehicles and exports about 1.5 million every year. It is the world’s second largest manufacturer of motorcycles, with annual sales exceeding 8.5 million in 2009. India’s passenger car and commercial vehicle manufacturing industry is the seventh largest in the world, with an annual production of more than 2.6 million units in 2009. In 2009, India emerged as Asia’s fourth largest exporter of passenger cars, behind Japan, South Korea and Thailand.

As of 2009, India is home to 40 million passenger vehicles and more than 2.6 million cars were sold in India in 2009 (an increase of 26%), making the country the second fastest growing automobile market in the world. According to the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers, annual car sales are projected to increase up to 5 million vehicles by 2015 and more than 9 million by 2020. By 2050, the country is expected to top the world in car volumes with approximately 611 million vehicles on the nation’s roads.

A chunk of India’s car manufacturing industry is based in and around the city of Chennai, also known as the "Detroit of India". with the Indian city accounting for 60 per cent of the country’s automotive exports. Gurgaon and Manesar near New Delhi are hubs where all of the Maruti Suzuki cars in India are manufactured. The Chakan corridor near Pune, Maharashtra is another vehicular production hub with General Motors, Volkswagen/ Skoda, Mahindra and Mahindra in the process of setting up or already set up facilities. Ahmedabad with Tata Motors Nano plant and Halol with General Motors in Gujarat, Aurangabad in Maharashtra, Kolkatta in West Bengal are some of the other automotive manufacturing regions around the country.

The second generation Tata Indica Vista. The Indica is the first passenger car indigenously developed in India.

Mahindra Scorpio, one of India’s best selling indigenously developed SUV.

 

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