Best Car Companies in India:- Automative companies are responsible for the design, development, manufacture, marketing, and selling of motor vehicles.
Car companies are one among the Automative company which manufactures Car models of various brands.
Here is a detailed list of Top 10 Car Companies in India which are listed below according to the famous and most sold brands in India.
Best Car Companies in India
1. Maruti Suzuki
Maruti Suzuki is a joint venture of “Maruti and Suzuki” which is an automobile manufacturer in India. Maruti Udyog Limited was established in 1982 in Gurgaon, Haryana by Sanjay Gandhi.
The success of the joint venture led Suzuki, to increase its equity. Some of the company’s shares were owned by the Indian government, and some by Suzuki which is a company in Japan.
They started out with their first model “Maruti 800″ which is the most successful car to date. From hatchbacks to sedans, from SUVs to MUVs, Maruti Suzuki manufactures all types of car models.
2. Hyundai
Hyundai Motor India Limited was founded by Hyundai Motor Company of South Korea in 1996. It is headquartered in Sriperumbudur, Kanchipuram district, Tamil Nadu. The founder of the company is Chung Ju-Yung. It is the largest passenger car exporter and the second largest car manufacturer in India.
The company’s first car was launched on 23 September 1998, it was Hyundai Santro. Hyundai Motor India Limited is a subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Company. Hyundai Motor India Limited has large variety of car models like Eon, Santro, i10, Grand i10, i20, Xcent, Verna, Elantra, Sonata, and Santa Fe.
3. Toyota
Toyota Motors is one of the top automobile companies in the world. The founder of the company was Kiichiro Toyoda. It was established on August 28, 1937. It is a Japanese automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Toyota, Aichi, Japan.
The chairman of the company is Takeshi Uchiyamada. Akio Toyoda is the President as well as CEO of the company. The car models of Toyota Motors are – Liva, Etios, Etios Cross, Corolla Altis, Camry, Camry Hybrid, Prius.
4. Ford
Ford India is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ford Motor Company which is a public company. Ford company was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. It is headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, U.S. It is the second-largest automaker company in the U.S. and the fifth-largest in the world on 2010 vehicle sales. Ford India operates as a modern and integrated manufacturing facility at Maraimalai Nagar, near Chennai, India.
5. Honda
Honda Motor India Pvt Ltd is the wholly-owned subsidiary of Honda Motor Co. Ltd., which is a Japanese public multinational corporation of Hamamatsu, Japan. The founder of Honda Motor was Soichiro Honda and Takeo Fujisawa.
Honda has been the world’s largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959 and is the second-largest Japanese automobile manufacturer in 2001. Honda also manufactures products in the field like Automobiles, Motorcycles, Power Equipment, Engines Robots, Aircraft, Solar cells, Mountain bikes, and ATVs.
6. Tata Motors
Tata Motors Limited is a public company that is a subsidiary of the Tata Group. It is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is an Indian multinational automotive manufacturing company. The company is the fourth-largest truck manufacturer and second-largest bus manufacturer automobile company.
The founder of the company is Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata(J. R. D. Tata). Apart from Tata cars, the company also manufactures trucks, vans, coaches, buses, construction equipment, and military vehicles.
7. Volkswagen
Volkswagen India is a subsidiary of Volkswagen private limited, a German multinational automobile company situated in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. Volkswagen India was founded by the German Labour Front in 1937.
The company manufactures passenger and commercial vehicles, motorcycles, engines, and turbomachinery, etc. Apart from the car and is the largest automaker in German countries and is the second-largest in the world. It started operating in India in the year 2007 taking it to 7th position in the Indian car market.
8. Mahindra & Mahindra
Mahindra & Mahindra is a subsidiary of Mahindra Two Wheelers limited and SsangYong Motor Company which is an Indian multinational automobile manufacturing corporation.
The company was founded by K.C. Mahindra, J.C. Mahindra, and Malik Ghulam Mohammed in 1945 in Ludhiana. Later on, after the independence in 1947, the company changed its name to Mahindra & Mahindra as Mohammed emigrated to Pakistan.
The company is an Indian multinational automobile manufacturing corporation that is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It produces SUVs, saloon cars, pickups, commercial vehicles, two-wheeled motorcycles, and tractors apart from the car models and ranked the top ten car companies in India.
9. Renault
Renault India Pvt Ltd, a fully owned subsidiary of Renault SAS France, a French multinational vehicle manufacturer.
The founder of the company is Louis Renault, Marcel Renault, Fernand Renault. It was founded in India in October 2005 and headquartered in Oragadam, Chennai, India.
The products manufactured by Renault India are – commercial vehicles, Luxury Cars, financing, etc. It was the third biggest European automaker by production as the company’s core market is Europe and the ninth biggest automobile company in the world by production in 2011.
Renault has seen a lot of success with its compact SUV “the Duster”, one of the most successful car models of Renault India and other models of Renault is the premium sedan Fluence, the luxury SUV Koleos, the premium compact car, Pulse, the SUV, Duster and the premium sedan, Scala.
10. General Motors – Chevrolet
Chevrolet is a brand of General Motors which is an American automobile division of the American manufacturer General Motors.
The company was founded by William C. Durant, Charles Stewart Mott, Frederic L. Smith in Detroit, Michigan, the United States on September 16, 1908.
It has a number of joint ventures, in Shanghai GM, SAIC-GM-Wuling, and FAW-GM in China, GM-AvtoVAZ in Russia, Ghandhara Industries in Pakistan, GM Uzbekistan, General Motors India, General Motors Egypt, and Isuzu Truck South Africa.
The company has different models of cars such as Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, Cadillac, Holden, Opel, Vauxhall, Wuling, Baojun, Jie Fang, UzDaewoo.