Maruti Suzuki’s Plant D at Hansalpur, Gujarat has started commercial production, adding 250,000 units of annual capacity to the site and taking it from 750,000 to 1 million units a year - the first time any single Suzuki factory anywhere in the world has reached that mark. Hansalpur is now India’s largest passenger-vehicle plant at a single location.
Plant D cost ₹3,900 crore (about $450 million) on its own, part of a ₹25,288.7 crore (about $2.9 billion) cumulative investment across the Hansalpur site since it opened. The new line’s first model is the e Vitara, Maruti’s electric SUV, meaning the factory’s headline expansion is built around an EV rather than the petrol models that have carried Suzuki volumes in India for decades.
The million-unit figure is annual capacity, not output - a ceiling the plant can now run up to, not a count of cars already built. Hansalpur has become central to Maruti’s export strategy as that capacity has grown: the plant accounted for 47% of the company’s overall exports in fiscal year 2025-26, shipping vehicles built in India to markets across Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. Parent company Suzuki Motor Corporation has never before concentrated this much capacity in one factory, in Japan or anywhere else it builds cars.
