Proton has announced its sales performance for the month of September 2019, with the national carmaker managing to deliver a total of 8,934 units in the month – last month saw 9,127 units. The latest figure includes both cars sold domestically as well as those exported, and we’ll only know the specific amount for each when the Malaysian Automotive Association (MAA) releases its September vehicle sales data.
According to the national carmaker, the September 2019 sales figure represents a 97% increase from the 4,524 units it recorded in the same month the year before. The Saga was a big contributor to the result, accounting for 3,994 units. Proton says the model is now the best-selling A-segment sedan in Malaysia after a three-year hiatus, and as at the end of September, over 20,000 bookings have been notched up for the model.
The brand says that its 8,934 units delivered in September signifies a 66-month high point, and allowed it to capture a 20.2% market share for the month. From a year-to-date perspective – January to September – Proton says it has an estimated 15.8% overall market share.
On that note, Proton’s year-to-date sales (up until the end of September) stands at 70,330 units, but this is again taking into consideration cars for the domestic and export markets. With this result, the company has sold more cars within the first three quarters of 2019 than it did for the entire 2018, where it recorded 64,744 units.
“By exceeding our total sales volume in 2018 in just nine months, Proton is on target to achieving its best sales number since 2015. Of even greater significance though is the Saga’s return to the number one spot in its segment. Despite being launched less than two months ago, the response from Malaysians has been overwhelmingly positive,” said Li Chunrong, CEO of Proton.
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We must thank China, Geely and Li Chunrong for saving Proton as well as Korea and Hyundai for supplying their gearbox for Saga FL. Without them, today Proton will for sure masuk longkang and game over
China is thanking Malaysian’s contribution of X70 to China GDP dude!
Yes yes. Haven’t we know this already? Thank china/ li chun rong saving proton bla bla bla. When can we move forward already?
Habislah tikus Perodua, Victory Proton Saga has so many bookings than Loser lousy Perodua Axia
Axia cannot be compared with Saga. You have to compare Saga to Bezza. Anyway, competition is good for the consumer!
Can’t make any good comments besides bashing the other car brands? Bla bla bla. On a positive note, this competition means a win for consumer
Mumm-Ra defeat by Thundercats.
Hail geely! Hail li chunrong !!
Predict Malaysia vehicle sales data for September 2019 by brand:
1. Perodua @ Mumm-Ra 15900 units
2. Proton @ Thundercats 8934 units
3. Honda 6200 units
4. Toyota 4900 units
5. Nissan 1800 units
Good, now comes the hardest part….sustaining the growth.
More sooner than later they will have to come out with a new generation of engines.
Recently, one of my friend told me that when tikus open this article about “over 20000 bookings for Proton Saga 2019” in paultan website using Apple Safari, tikus will start to get heart attack and cry for whole tonight and tomorrow that Proton Saga have 4x sales than Perodua Axia as well as my friend also told tikus that it is expected for people will cancel order booking for Perodua Axia and book for Proton Saga on the next day. So sad tikus
Proton bashers be like……proton saga facelift is a game over car
Bash Proton so many times, in the end Perodua is game over, hahahahaha…
Got case before, someone post compare saga rm40k vs bezza rm48k, both top spec in a bezza fb group.
Became 200+ comments of butthurt lel.
Kipidap… Dongibap
Yes thank you Mr. Li Chunrong. Show them and teach them how to make bisnes. All this time bisnes goyang kaki and minum teh O only good. Well done proton china.
Dr.Li,we salute you.Start chopping the deadwood.They are the leeches and parasites.
See, the only major problem with saga is punch cvt. Malaysian have said it years ago but the engineers at proton still so lazy to make changes
Now already new gearbox… U still sleeping in some bubble??
Still live in a cave? Ppl change to hyundai 4at already u still tok punch cvt
Don’t be unfair! Engineers wont make the decision what gearbox to use, neither at Proton, nor at Perodua, Toyota, Mercedes, BMW, etc. This are management decisions.
I think Ahmad jr(just resurrected) is talking about the past, or maybe he just rose from the dead, saying, What year is this? Is Pak Lah still the PM? What is a smartphone?
LMAO agreed jimho, nowadays people with their canggih smartphones read to reply rather reading to understand. Their phones are smarter than them
what a shame
Why there’s no MAA sales data by brand for August?
Indeed pleasing to hear the positive sentiments on Proton cars! Hope the positive momentum will continue…..
recently???haha.funny.just posted yesterday.wake up wake up…you are dreaming.kesian…typical p1 staff.
ya ya enjoy while it lasts. matter of time before proton buyers realise what theyve gotten themselves into. proton is now china brand, no more bolehland national carmaker. eventually ppl will go back to japanese perodua over higher reliability and lower ownership cost. japan trumps china again.
Like Sony trumps over Huawei, Oppo, etc. ?
Bugatti , lambo , skoda , audi , and many others are belong to VW . So, that mean that lambo are from german ? Hahaha
Saga win bcoz of 4at…same like all perodua.. Bravo 4at transmission!
Now we want proton to apologise and retract back saying that the Saga with CVT gearbox was a better car than the BLM with 4AT. Because now you are licking back what you spitted before.
And later before you knew it.. you will come back to 4 engine mountings when you said 3 mountings are better. So stupid, sounds stupid. Look stupid too.
The better technological solution don’t always sell better. If people are satisfied with outdated dinosaur tech, why not sell to them?
Japanese or Koreans of course would refuse to buy tech from the steam engine age.
I admit that personally I really like this version of Saga up to the point that yesterday I wassap two Proton salesman to ask if possible to trade-in my less than a year old Bezza. Not that I don’t like this Bezza but this Saga is just hard to resist!
SAGA and X70 are main seller, so remaining line up like Personal, Iriz, Suprima, kinda redundant?
Axia and Myvi are main seller, so remaining line up like Aruz kinda redunant?
both proton and perodua are useless, dare to challenge other makes in an open market?
Proton pls change Saga to a better engine with those facility and affordable price. Perodua bezza , can be no sales and no demand . For now this saga is really good in safety and facilities . Hope proton soon to replace their current engine to 1.3 Geely engine