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28 Nov 2025
Year-end car buyers see a sharp shift as November loan sheets open with the lowest public-bank rates of the year.
What prompts a buyer to pause before signing a vehicle invoice? A report released on 27 November 2025 by Business Standard created that moment when it confirmed that car loan offers started at 7.6 percent across large public banks for new vehicles.
The update arrived during a busy stretch for India’s automobile market. Showrooms stayed active during the festive cycle that began in September 2025. Banks moved to capture this sentiment and lowered starting rates instead of limiting changes to processing fees. This turn shaped the present conversation on borrowing costs.
The Business Standard report dated 27 November 2025 listed UCO Bank at 7.6 percent, Canara Bank at 7.7 percent, and Punjab National Bank at 7.8 percent as the starting rates for new car loans. These numbers marked the lowest entry points given by public banks since early 2024.
Public lenders also paired these slabs with controlled upper bands. That made loan outcomes more predictable for salaried applicants. The figures below reflect the public bank pattern recorded in the November study and verified through names listed on the Ministry of Finance website.
Public banks continued to remain the most competitive lenders in the November cycle.
They shaped the entry point for the market, and their tighter bands encouraged first-time buyers to examine borrowing again. This gap between public and private lenders becomes clearer when comparing the second group.
Another Business Standard update published on 21 November 2025 showed that private banks and NBFCs operated with broader brackets. The report recorded ICICI Bank beginning near 8.5 percent, Bajaj Finserv beginning at 9.49 percent, and Shriram Finance starting at 10 percent for new car loans.
A coverage by Loansjagat in September 2025 mentioned that the 7.6 percent banner rate helped only high-score applicants. Many borrowers received higher figures due to internal risk checks.
The table below uses lender details listed on the RBI directory and figures extracted from the November reports.
This spread shows how risk scoring shaped outcomes in the 2025 cycle.
Private players relied on flexible slabs, while NBFCs stretched to the highest margins across all categories.
The 7.6 percent entry rate recorded in the 27 November 2025 report placed public banks at the centre of the year-end competition. Private lenders stayed higher, and NBFCs remained the costliest. Further changes may follow the RBI liquidity review in December 2025, which could influence early 2026 loan sheets.
The market now waits for the next update as demand stays firm and lenders prepare for the first-quarter sales phase.
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