These March offers are an excellent opportunity for car buyers with impending price increases of 3-5% from these manufacturers, primarily due to rising input costs, effective April-2025. These discounts include cash discounts, trade-in bonuses, corporate incentives, and scrappage bonuses from Honda, Hyundai, Citroen, and Mahindra. This makes it the best opportunity for anyone who wants to buy a new car before the price hike, either due to cheaper tariffs or to cash in on available preferences.
Below is a list of car manufacturers and their respective March discounts:
Honda
Honda Cars India is currently giving discounts of up to ₹90,000 on its cars such as City, Elevate, Amaze, and City e:HEV. The customer is able to avail of these discounts through cash benefits, exchange offers, and corporate incentives.
Honda grants a 7-year warranty, which is a 3-year warranty with coverage extended from the 4th to 7th year. It further offers an 8-year guaranteed buyback from the 3rd to 8th year. Additional discounts can be availed by those customers who have a valid scrappage certificate.
Maximum cash benefits of ₹66,100 are provided for Elevate ZX (MT) and Black Edition; whereas the SV/V/VX (MT) has benefits of ₹56,100. Discounts up to ₹45,000 are available for the Apex Edition (MT), and benefits up to ₹46,100 are available for the CVT trim. The ZX (CVT) and Black Edition carry benefits up to ₹86,100, while V/VX (CVT) trims now have benefits up to ₹71,100.
The Honda City offers benefits of up to ₹73,300, with the City e:HEV giving the highest discount of ₹90,000. The second-generation Honda Amaze S variant provides discounts of up to ₹57,200 while the VX variant offers up to ₹67,200.
Hyundai
Hyundai India has also gone ahead and announced discounts of up to ₹53,000 on some models, particularly the i20, Venue, Exter and Grand i10 NIOS. These discounts include cash offers, exchange bonuses, and corporate benefits, with more for those with valid scrappage certificates.
Among these models, the Hyundai Exter has the lowest discount of ₹35,000, while the Venue offers benefits of ₹45,000. The sporty hatchback i20 gets discounts of ₹50,000 and the Grand i10 NIOS holds the highest discount of ₹53,000.
Citroen
Citroen India offers massive discounts of up to ₹1.75 lakh on its vehicles only till March 31, 2025. For more information, customers can connect with the authorized Citroen dealerships. The Citroen eC3, which includes MY23 models, has discounts of up to ₹80,000, while the Citroen C3 has benefits of ₹1 lakh.
The Citroen C5 Aircross MY23 stock, however, shows these exceptional discounts of ₹1.75 lakh. Meanwhile, discounts for the Citroen Basalt MY24 stock go up to ₹1.70 lakh.
Mahindra
Discounts were applied to nine different passenger vehicles by Mahindra, which include the Thar, Scorpio N, and XUV 3XO and Scorpio Classic. These offers are applicable for both the MY2024 and MY2025 models. The Mahindra Thar 4WD (Petrol & Diesel) receives discounts of up to ₹1 lakh while the Diesel 2WD offers up to ₹50,000 in benefits. The 2WD petrol enjoys the maximum discount of up to ₹1.25 lakh.
The base Z2 category of MY2024, Mahindra Scorpio N comes with up to ₹55,000, and the top-spec Z8S offers a ₹60,000 discount. Z8 and Z8L trims get benefits of up to ₹80,000, while Z6 Diesel and Z4 trims get benefits of up to ₹90,000. Discounts are also being offered on the MY2025 Scorpio N, where the petrol variants (Z2, Z4, Z8, Z8L, and Z8S) get up to ₹40,000 removed from the price, while the diesel trims (Z4 and Z6) receive discounts of up to ₹30,000.
The MY2024 stock of the Mahindra Scorpio Classic is also being offered with discounts of up to ₹1.25 lakh from which the lowest S trim gets the benefit of the full amount while the top-spec S11 variant gets a discount of ₹90,000.
The S variant of the MY2025 Scorpio Classic includes discounts of up to ₹90,000, whereas the S11 gets a discount of up to ₹44,000.
Great offers on the Mahindra XUV 3XO exist, with MY2024 petrol variants (MX3, MX3 Pro, AX5, and AX5L) getting benefits of up to ₹30,000. The AX5 naturally aspirated automatic variant has a discount of up to ₹50,000, and the diesel MX2 and MX3 Pro trims have benefits of up to ₹50,000.
Discounts up to ₹55,000 apply to the MX3 and MX3 Pro diesel variants, while a discount of up to ₹1 lakh applies to the most expensive AX7 and AX7L variants. MY2025 XUV 3XO models also benefit from benefits of up to ₹50,000 on the AX7, AX7L, AX5 Petrol Auto, MX2, MX2 Pro, MX3, MX3 Pro, and AX5 Diesel trims.
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