Vehicle sales bounced back up from a slowdown in July 2005 to a figure that’s the second highest this year so far in August 2005.
Sales for the month of August was 50,079 units. The highest sales for a month this year was March, where 50,564 vehicles were sold.
Analysts have expected sales to drop again for September as consumers would be hesistant to purchase vehicles, instead waiting for the government to announce the new National Automotive Policy.
There was also a flat sales trend for non-national cars in August, which analysts say was probably because of the PGE fine slapped on the best-selling non-national Korean vehicles.
After dabbling for years in the IT industry, Paul Tan initially began this site as a general blog covering various topics of personal interest. With an increasing number of readers paying rapt attention to the motoring stories, one thing led to another and the rest, as they say, is history. An avid electronic gadget aficionado as well as big-time coffee lover, he's also the executive producer of the Driven motoring TV programme.
everyone also wanna own a new car….tats why the vehicle sales didn't drop too much.
i tink its the myvi thats making the numbers look big,n one more interesting thing,if u check motor trader,thy publich car sales number every week,since abt 2mnths,the savvy have been selling more n more,first it was abt 1xx a mnht,now its abot 3xx a mnth….maybe dats y slowly bt sure ur seeing more savvys around,sepcially around wangsa maju/ampang area…i tink another factor is that this year was a replacment cycle for cars that are 5yrs old on average…thats y thy predicted frm the begining of the yr thats its gonna be a good yr for car sales…
Why no breakdown by car typ? directive fr gov to save P1 face?
Paul,
Is this possibly due to the recent cut on the road tax being implemented few weeks ago?
Rumours that car price going up soon might be the reason
sales up, roads the same. diu
"sales up, roads the same. diu"
LoL and more traffic jams
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More sales of foreign cars…not potong. If gov were to combine p1 and p2 into the lumpsum…that there is an "improvement" in national car sales
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malaysian become richer …then the volume up lo…!!!