The month of November has seen a very slight uptick in new vehicle sales, according to data released by the Malaysian Automotive Association (MAA). In total, 49,085 vehicles were registered last month – that’s up by 1,206 units or 2.5% from the month before, but still some 6,983 units or 12.5% down from November 2015.
What’s more, year-to-date sales of 515,293 units trail those from last year, down 13.7% or 82,013 units from the same period in 2015 – with just a month left to go, total sales for the entire year will likely be some way off last year’s record 666,674 units. As usual, we’ve compiled MAA’s sales data in the table below, sorted by the top performing brands in November 2016 – as you can see, it’s a mixed bag.
Perodua leads the tables again, but its sales were down 4.3% from the month before, dropping 700 units to 15,448 units. Proton didn’t enjoy such a strong month, either, selling 4.0% or 304 fewer vehicles at 7,336 units; however, it still managed to hang on to third place in the standings.
On the other hand, November has been fruitful for the top non-national makes, with Honda sales up 8.5% or 699 units to 8,903 units, maintaining a comfortable second place. Toyota also sold 890 more vehicles, an increase of 16.2% – this amounts to total sales of 6,390 units, keeping it in fourth.
Further down the order, Nissan managed an impressive performance for November, with a jump of 24.3% to 3,050 units. On the premium end of the market, Mercedes-Benz has maintained the sales momentum that it had throughout the year, with a 5.9% increase to 996 units; BMW’s sales also saw a welcome 8.1% increase to 930 units.
Elsewhere, it’s been a good month for Lexus (+88.6%) and Subaru (+41.2%), but not so good for Mazda, which suffered a 20.1% drop in sales in November. The latter’s total sales of 802 units puts it behind not just Isuzu (1,063 units), but also Mercedes and BMW.
In terms of year-to-date sales, Perodua still leads at 182,485 units sold, followed by Honda (80,369 units), Proton (65,067 units), Toyota (56,410 units) and Nissan (35,902 units). Other carmakers that have passed the five-digit mark include Mazda (11,890 units), Isuzu (11,338 units) and Mercedes (11,130 units) making it a fierce three-way fight for sixth in the standings.
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nissan sales went up must be due to suckers loving the nismo bodykit.
As with my experience with Mazda, they are very reserved in terms of end year discounts, they simply don’t budge much from the sticker price, that’s why sales may be down, people rather wait for 2017 models.
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So much hype on new Proton Perdana, Persona and Saga this year, yet the sales can’t even reach 100k units. Actually only a third (1/3) of Perodua sales.
Again, Proton is meant to be talked/gossip, but not to be purchased and driven.
Most of proton just recently launched what do u expect the sales figures will be? People don’t buy proton coz they were waiting the new model ,one of the reason.Data proved that too.With the big rebates of Toyota model too,how many unit sold by umw? Just 56k is well below the best 90k+ UMW used to enjoyed.Lost to Honda for 3 consecutive years even worst! How many new models/facelift been launched by umw Toyota this year? Let’s count together ok.Sienta,Fortuner,Hilux,Facelift vios,Innova,Facelift Altis,..but why just 56k? Not to mention umw figures after add in commercial vehicle registrations.Even perodua sales went down.Next year Honda gonna rules again,with the new BRV 7seater coming will completely make Avanza extinct.So just Hilux model is attractive.The rest i.e. Altis,Avanza,innova,Fortuner,Rush,Camry,Vios,Sienta was lost to rivals in term of price,design,performance and value for money.Shut your crap up same lorr.Toyota in bolehland is so yesterday and yester-years..Don’t wish your CHR will turn around too coz it’s just 1.2Turbocharge with little 120ps and 1.8NA engine.Price gonna be 120k onwards for that overly done ah bengs design.New Mazda CX5 with so much bigger and power much more attractive with the same price as CHR.
Everybody interested in Proton’s figures. Last year, they sold 105,000 cars. That resulted in the big Scandal where Mustapha was so shocked and wanted to close Proton down.
this year, Proton has only sold 65,000 cars. This is far worse than last year’s 105,000 cars. On top of that Proton has taken RM1.5 billion of our money to stay alive.
Let us see what Mustapha will say. Directors and Management of Proton themselves have not cut cost by cutting their pay and reducing their perks. All happy with 6 figure fat pay packets per month whilst the company loses RM4 million per day.
Company already lauched 4 new cars also sales become worse than last year….something is very wrong
Oh btw, what happened to sales figures? Proton said Persona alone got like 15,000 orders. Saga also got 20,000 orders etc etc??
Proton posted a net loss of RM646.3 million for 2015, which was 39.9%higher than the RM462.03 million it lost a year earlier
How is Proton going to pay back the RM1.5 billion loan like this?
Proton posted net lost due to Lotus not the brand itself.
Mazda don offer moch end year rebate…padan muka
Toyota only sold 50% of Honda in passenger cars
look. not only toyota doing bad.
honda sold 94k cars last year. it may lose 5-12% its sales this year.
bad sales affecting perodua, honda, toyota and proton is a sign of slowing economy. this is something we should worry more.
Toyota total vehicles sold after add in commercial registrations.. which mean fleet sales by company.
Mazda is shifting its positioning globally towards an ‘entry’ level luxury car maker in the same guise as Mini, Buick and Volvo and chasing volume is not their goal anymore.
That explains why they do not provide discounts like the other Japanese brands to boost sales. They know they have to take the hit to meet their long-term goals. With their size, they cannot compete in every segment with the other mainstream guys.
Their perceived brand value is very high all over the world. People always mentally classify their carsvas a step above Honda,toyota, Nissan etc (even here in Malaysia although many will be reluctant to accept that fact like me). Even Subaru is beginning to be seen this way in the west although they are still a step back.
The future growth in this ‘entry level’ luxury segment is gonna be super high and hence why every brand is trying to up their game to be considered in that segment as the younger generation want ‘luxury’ but also ‘cheap’ and not brand snobs like the older generation as long as it’s cool and trendy.
Nissan got heavy promotions right now. An almera got rebate up to 9.5k i guess. No shocker there. Perodua mostly sold axia plus promotions for other models. The real shocker is Proton, after 4 models launch this year, they still can’t manage to sell more than honda per month
Can somebody tell me why Honda sold more than Toyota?
Because in bolehland toyota cars are sucky big time
What are Kia and Hyundai still doing in the Malaysian market lah? They suck so much this year, baik pergi berambus.
Same thing goes to the Frenchies. We don’t like your ugly and expensive cars lah.
As for Nissan recording that sales jump, seriously are they selling cars with free downpayment so owners can cry at the shitty second-hand value? Had one, will never buy from ETCM ever again.
Malaysia’s economy more stable than neighbor’s….
Stagnant is the word. Not stable.
I sense Toyota SA in panic mode
LOL
Stable!
Do you really know what are the economic consequences when 42 billions and counting are “legally” removed from circulation and how long before the full blown effects are felt by the economy?
Either you’re a top notch politician or a real quack!
Only Malaysian don’t like korean car. They are very successful in other countries
Other countries 10 years warranty.
u tell me which car price increases after it leaves showroom? so u own a Nissan which u expect the RV stays the same / increasing throughout ur ownership is it? u sure fail economy 101 big time. do u realize Kia & Hyundai is one of the factor Japanese cars more safety in msia today? if not for them offering cheaper price but wilth good safety features compared to bare minimum safety Japanese counterparts, the dugong God car wouldn’t have ESC until today. when I bought my Kia Rio at that time, no other B segment cars in msia have ESC priced below 80k. jazz, city, dugong vios & almari all don’t have ESC. be smarter & invest in commercial properties bro…
Shud reduce car sales. Increase public transport usage.
Insaf John
With the new LRT lines,do u take trains to work?
Dont talk 3,talk 4…..we still need cars.
As for yours truly,I admit,I love cars,especially my Rolls Royce.
Malaysians are addicted to cars…the question now is AFFORDABILITY and STAYING POWER to handle the hire purchase loans.
Pipu like u shud insaf for causing more damage to environment with ur selfishness
Malaysians love their outskirt landed properties so much, so no choice every single household member need to have their own car.
Even with 4 new models launched, Proton still sell fewer cars compared to 2015. Alamak. What is happening to Proton? Proton you better rebadge cars like Perodua. You can sell more cars and earn more that way.
DRB-Hicom got Proton, Honda, Euromobil, Mitsubishi, Isuzu with them.
Proton down? Nevermind, Honda is up there is second place for a long time. Just left pocket or right pocket money.
Waiting for december 2016 as car start to deliver. What do you expect? To make a ready stock of 20k unit before launch? Of course not. They will on stock like for eg 5k unit than launch the car. After that receive order than baru buat. Btw, seriously, new Persona and Saga is now flooding the road. Its everywhere. Lets see December 2016.
Even honda sales ytd better than p1. Who’d guessed that? Shake head
And just a few years ago I thought the Korean cars will easily eat up the Japanese cars… oh well… i was wrong….
The problem with Koreans cars are Malaysian made.
The franchise holder need to be chastised. Korean cars are popular foreign market because they had to fight the perception of bad repute with very good quality car, well speced and good value.
Here in Malaysia Naza and Sime Darby bastardized Kia and Hyundai by:
1) Removing specs and introducing cheap knock off Malaysian OEM
2) Charges an arm and a leg.
3) Provide substandard aftersale.
It’s the same deal with Lexus, they had to complete on value for money elsewhere, so they are usually cheaper than the Germans and better speced. Here, UMW bastardize Lexus and charges an arm and a leg for substandard specs glorified Toyota.
Padan muka toyota kalah dgn honda…. esok2 ko kluar model baru ko bagi up lg harga tinggi2 ya…hahaha
kat malaysia je.
kat thailand – honda kalah
kat indonesia – honda kalah.
kat jepun – honda kalah
kat america – honda kalah
benua afrika – honda kalah
negara arab – honda kalah.
dunia – honda jauh ketinggalan banding dgn toyota
abah kau lah. duduk bawah tempurung.
what? nowadays honda is already no.2 pushing down proton to no.3?!
pls bring back the previous CEO…
And T push down by P1 to no.4
Bmw and merc sell 5X more cars than VW in Malaysia ( 900+ vs 200) So BMW and Merc are the people’s car over here . Lol
If only I bought that Swift I was planning to buy, I will contribute to 1 sales of Suzuki.
why the Jeep is not in the list…lolololol
P2 FOREVER!!!
this shows how a failed company proton is. all the hype about their super ugly Saga and little persona and old useless perdana and unpopular ertiga. CEO talking of delivering so many cars and now this is the result. KARMA is coming for failing the Malaysian car industry only to fill up their own pockets.
Huh? If they fail should be in the last 10 in the list but being top ten.
my friend, if Honda or Toyota had the facilities and production resources as well as supply chain that Proton has, they could have sold and exported over 50K per month. so pls think of facts here. Proton has lost its edge.
Some Toyotas and Hondas are already assembled here in bolehland, your point is invalid
The up to 8k discounts rises the city and vios again. With 20k more u get a japanese badge with cheaper interests rate and maintenance free timing chain more canggih engine on top of the persona.
20k can buy lot of fuel for years, go figure
he is emphasizing the differences of price between persona 60k and vios/city at 80k. with zero discounts for persona and an average of 8k less for city and vios (which brings down the price to about 70-72k) it is so worth so much to go for the japanese brands for the size (persona is B segment, vios and city is B+ – slightly larger), a more efficient engines and transmission, better reliability and after sales support / network.
ssangyong still exist in malaysia or not? zero figure even for YTD total sale
Eh…. Volvo sold more than audi. That’s a first
For me, on paper, of course P2 will win due to their cheaper price and brand’s image inherited from D & T.It is not fair for other brands to compete with P2. The real competition here is between P1, H, T, N, Mit, K and Hyu for everyday people’s car.