Mahindra Australia is planning on including its identify to the industry-standard month-to-month gross sales report from 2026 because it appears to be like to turn out to be a prime 15 model right here by 2030.
The automaker at present doesn’t publish its gross sales figures within the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries’ month-to-month VFACTS report, which covers the vast majority of the Australian automotive {industry}, making it troublesome to trace the model’s progress.
Mahindra Australia – and the model globally – is within the midst of a change from farm-focused maker of tractors and rugged utes to maneuver into the automotive mainstream, full with a brand new brand and model identification.
Whereas it has offered autos right here for near twenty years, since 2021 it has launched a sequence of more and more subtle fashions together with the Scorpio and XUV700 SUVs at present on sale in Australia.
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Talking on the launch of the XUV 3XO – at present Australia’s least expensive SUV – Mahindra head of worldwide operations Sachin Arolkar mentioned the corporate is trying to be a part of VFACTS subsequent yr.
“We’re contemplating [joining VFACTS],” Mr Arolkar instructed CarExpert.
“We wished to have a specific scale, which we imagine now we have with our quantity right here, and due to this fact can be on VFACTS.
“The launch of this product [the XUV 3XO], the section we’re in, and the type of quantity aspiration, we can be a large participant and due to this fact we see now could be the precise time to be on VFACTS and present our volumes to who desires to see.”
The VFACTS report is printed by the FCAI every month and covers traits, market share in addition to uncooked gross sales knowledge.
It covers most manufacturers, with notable absentees together with electrical automotive manufacturers Tesla and Polestar, who each stop the FCAI in March 2024 over disagreements surrounding the New Car Effectivity Commonplace (NVES) emissions laws.
The 2 EV manufacturers’ gross sales figures are reported and printed as an alternative by the Electrical Car Council (EVC), headed by former Polestar Australia boss Samantha Johnson.
Mahindra mentioned it offered round 4185 autos within the 12-month interval between April 2025 and March 31, 2025.
Its has mentioned its ambition to be a prime 15-best-selling model in Australia – which requires a six-fold enhance on its present gross sales – will embrace introducing not less than one new mannequin yearly over the following 5 years.
The automaker has confirmed the next-generation Thar SUV amongst these, and has confirmed it’s going to launched electrical autos to the native lineup, having proven the XEV 9e and the BE 6e abroad.
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