New Delhi, May 1 -- Maruti Suzuki India Limited, the country's automotive market leader, has its six-year-old partnership with Toyota Kirolskar Motor Ltd to thank for beating domestic car market blues in the previous financial year (FY25). Maruti Suzuki would have seen practically flat (0.2%) growth in number of cars sold in the fiscal, but it got a fillip from selling an additional 106,000 units to Toyota in a rebadging partnership, according to data from the company.

This additional sale helped Maruti clock nearly 3% growth in the fiscal, selling 1.9 million passenger vehicles (PVs, comprising cars and SUVs). That handsomely beat the 2% industry growth of PVs in FY25. To be sure, Maruti's FY25 sales to Toyota saw an 82% jump from 58,61...