What have Malaysians been searching for via Google? The search engine compiles these searches and comes up with an annual ‘Zeitgeist’ for Malaysia at the end of each year, and the list is categorised as well. People (the late Lee Kuan Yew tops the list), financial terms (1 USD to MYR, the obvious concern) and movies (Fast & Furious 7) are among the categories listed, but of our interest here is “Car Models”.
Just a note on “trending”, which means that a search term saw the largest increase in the amount of searches over the past year, not to be confused with “most searched for”. Because of this, trending lists are likely to be dominated by newly-launched cars or cars that have suddenly generated high interest. Here’s the Top 10:
No big surprise on the Honda HR-V topping the list and the Perodua Axia right up there – both have been bright spots in a slow auto market and have been record breaking models for their respective companies. Splitting the two is the Lykan Hypersport, which is of course up there due to its cameo in Fast & Furious 7, which topped the movie category.
Honda is a company on form, and terms like “Honda Civic”, “Honda City 2015” and “Honda Civic 2016” are also in the top-10 list. Of course, Proton is represented as well, and “Proton Iriz” takes the fifth spot, ahead of “Proton Perdana 2016”, an upcoming model that has been teased, spied and confirmed for 2016. A Proton topped the list in 2012 and 2013, but Perodua’s Axia beat the Iriz to top spot last year.
Besides the above, “Pajero Sport” is in seventh and “Audi S8” is in tenth. The former refers either to the new Mitsubishi Pajero Sport, which is no longer a Triton with a canopy, or the DUKE Pajero Sport-Myvi accident that shocked the nation in May. Why is the Audi S8 there? It was the star of the The Transporter Refueled movie.
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T badge not in the list
T is so boring, nobody cares
cuz You’ll “get the feeling” inside Toyota Axia mah
well, Honda wins…
but, Audi S8 ? really ?
never been in anyone interest.
i bet car guy google more on Nissan GTR than S8
Lykan must be because of FF7 movie
Doesn’t mean anything or indication of sales….
It means what ppl intrested in, which is good for marketing
Are u kidding me? Iriz is in the search list?? Where abt Mazda 3 and my lovely Lamborghini Urus?
#2 and #10 is so out of reach yet can make it to the top 10? Malaysian are rich huh! No need 1 MDB help already la.
Wow! Not even a single Toyota’s model on the list. Kinda makes me wonder why the ‘high rv’, ‘high durability’ sushi brand didn’t make it into top 10 list.
As long as its not a kimchi, it will have RV