Now that the Malaysian Automotive Association (MAA) has released vehicle sales data for the whole of 2018, it’s time to take a look at how the industry performed, and to identify the top players for the year that has passed.
Overall, the total industry volume for 2018 ended at 598,714 vehicles, which is an increase of 22,089 vehicles from the 576,625 units that was achieved in 2017. This improvement is likely attributed to the tax holiday period that car buyers enjoyed following the change of government in May.
During that time, the goods and services tax (GST) was revised from 6% to 0% from June 1, and remained that way for three months before the implementation of the sales and services tax (SST) on September 1, 2018.
Focusing on individual brands, Perodua had a rather prosperous 2018, registering 227,243 vehicles compared to 204,887 vehicles in 2017. The national carmaker also managed to further increase its market share to 42.6% from 40.3%, meaning every two out of five passenger cars sold in Malaysia last year was a Perodua model.
Coming in second place is Honda with 102,282 units, which is a lower figure from the 109,511 units it recorded in 2017. Despite the drop (also in market share), Honda remains the top non-national car brand on the list.
Also sharing a similar predicament is third place Proton with a total volume and market share of 64,744 units and 12.1%, both lower figures than what it achieved in 2017.
Just like in 2017, Toyota remained fourth with 43,446 units (8.1% market share), which is a decline from 47,615 units (9.3% market share) previously. Rounding up the unchanged top five list is Nissan, which experienced a gain from 19,949 units (3.9% market share) in 2017 to 21,956 units (4.1% market share) in 2018.
Further down the list, Mazda climbed to sixth place in 2018 (15,765 units, 3% market share), pushing Mercedes-Benz (13,118 units, 2.5% market share) down into seventh place, followed by BMW (12,008 units, 2.3% market share) in eighth place. Both German luxury car brands had a good year in 2018, with gains in both total volume as well as market share.
Others that cracked the top 10 are Volkswagen (7,001 units, 1.3% market share) and Kia (5,658 units, 1.1% market share), both gaining in the number of vehicles sold and market share (unchanged in VW’s case).
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Of the top 4, all the other brands with SUV dropped in anticipating X70 launch. Too bad due to Gov delays in price setting (Gov says need to up price), deswai it launch so late in mid Dec. With 15,000 X70 bookings and more coming, this will be a gud opportunity for P1Geely partnership to began blooming.
P1, Geely, Mesidis, VolvoCar, VolvoTrucks, Lotus > all
The real game changing sales performance! Habisla Proton always “red down” arrow!
Agreed. Faster make booking b4 car price go up
By looking at the sales table above, Habisla…?
A. Toyota!
B. Honda!
C. Nissan!
D. Proton!
E. Hyundai!
Explaination :
Smart people choose D and also D is the correct answer. People who choose D have the potential to enter Harvard University!
You sure it’s the gov fault and not Proton’s incompetency that causes the delay?
Still arrogant and delusional.
Don’t ask for bailout again, okay!
Habislah proton. Hidup perodua
Habislah perutdua. Hidup proton
Punch drunk. they became delusional; got drunk on own KoolAid and got carried away, it had become so detached from reality ,
TOYODA CANNOT SELL DUE TO PREMIUM PRICING WITH TIN KOSONG,padan muka
Without Hilux commercial sales, Toyota is going down the drain real quick. No wonder their troll got so much free time ‘talking’ to his dupes.
I can see Proton sales has been stabilized with Geely on board, drop 8% only. 1 year drop 1 position.
As usual Honda is always showing off to Proton, Volvo, Mazda, Toyota, Volvo, Mercedes and other carmakers.
Audi -78.6% OMG!
BMW – double digit growth
Mercedes – Only single digit growth
Proton – Only singe 0 (Zero)
Proton Arena is commercial vehicle.
Audi biggest loser. What happen to them?
Cannot compete with ckd cars from competitors
2019 milik proton
Ini ayat orang kampung. Mana you tau milik Proton, 2019 baru mula. Dari dulu lagi, Asia BMW, game changer, selling company …tapi macam tu jugak. Satu tahun jatuh satu tangga.
22k Hiluxes sold in 2018, Hilux still king
Biggest winner : Perodua
Biggest loser : Proton
Habisla ProJohn
Perodua only growth 10.9%, how can it be a biggest winner, even BMW growth higher at 13.1%!
How can Proton a biggest loser at -8.8%, Hyundai already at -28.2%!
If you want to bash also have to use brain a bit lah.
Habislah Toyota. Jualan semakin lama semakin kurang.
22000 hiluxes sold says Toyota still strong
Proton sales is falling down,
Falling down, falling down,
Proton sales is falling down,
John menangis.
nissan improved their market share by doing nothing.
Nissan improved by throwing prices. TCMH shares still making losses.
It is because Protong salesman goyang kaki, lepak, typing in Paultan.org and minum teh 20X. That is why Nissan sales can increase by doing nothing
Boggles the mind, so many nutcases buying crap nissans. But of course not as many dumbos buying a china brand.
Result will proved Malaysian choice for buying car. P2 always being bashed but its still top choice and Honda beat other JPN brand due to Honda improvement in term of car design, safety and engine+gearbox.
Even u add up all the decrease sales which is in red color also cannot cover up improve sales by P2. Wonder those buyer have switch to P2. P2 is strong, but always beware of those competitor. Look at Apple this day, 1 Trillion company value last year and now become 700++ billion. Never feel proud and relax if company making profits. Should always stay alert.
Perodua no alert of changing
Hyundai and Peugeot…just dismal results
Toyota without commercial vehicles…another shocking downward spiral
Protong…just counting on some X70…the bleeding continues
Perodua…another BLOCKBUSTER achievement.But the prices are too high for sub compact Axia and Myvis.
Even tan Chong improve sikit,but still playing catch up.
At just over half a juta units for cars…where is the justification for protiga?The pie is getting smaller for all with unwanted Protiga gate crashing in.
Just madness to launch protiga with a trillion Rm debt.
Why PH supporters so damn quiet?
What does politics have to do with ppls purchasing decision on a particular brand?
Even if for whatsoever reason politics influences brand choise, there were 2 different govt on the 1st and 2nd half of 2018.
Please enlighten me if I am not aware of something…
Peugeot sales actually increased by almost 20%. Way better than overall market performance. They even achieved this when their cheapest model i.e. 208 is on its last leg. From this angle how can say its a dismal result?
Hyundai having a bad year I can agree.
this data included recon cars??
Nope, only official distributors.
If include recond car, habislah proton..
im not sure who is dumb here, the writer or the readers. im pretty sure the top 10 is isuzu and mitsu. not vw and kia
The dumb one is you. VW and Kia is in the Top 10 for Passenger Vehicles segment.
PT have always written their articles focusing on passenger vehicles for the longest time.
U dumb…top table is only passenger vehicle, not including commercial vehicle
Bottom table is all vehicle
Nope. It’s you, who is unable to read in context.
Just look at Audi lol
the malaysian have spoken based on 2018 data…talk kok
, like and dislikes here by cybertroopers never helps…ever change the truth…dreaming for 2019?let’s wait and see…opsss
Aiyo brother and sisters, the X70 IS NOT A VOLUME SELLER for P1 and it cant sustain long term sales once euphoria faded…P2 monopoly so noting to shout about cannot compare wit Nokia Aplle they fight in open market worldwide
Don’t see great wall haval model or there is but under which company
Mana brand Maxus G10?
The No.1’s volume is almost No.2, 3 and 4 combined!
The biggest blow was to Audi, had a really bad year 2018…..
How can we get the model breakdown details for each car brand?
Hey Paul Tan,
Where did you get the car breakdown data?