Proton has announced its sales performance for the month of November 2020, where it managed to sell 11,411 units – this includes domestic sales and exports. The total represents a slight increase of 19 units (or 0.167%) from the 11,392 units it managed in October, as well as an 18% improvement over the same month in 2019, when 9,643 units were sold.
With November’s results locked in, the national carmaker says that total sales for 2020 now stands at 96,410 units, which is 7.7% more than the 89,476 units recorded in the same period last year. The company’s estimated market share currently stands at 20.1%, which is slightly lower than the 21.3% it had at the end of October.
In terms of individual model performance, 4,279 units of the Saga were sold in November, while sales of the Iriz and Persona stood at 637 and 1,942 units respectively. The Exora, X70 and X50 lead their respective market segments, with the MPV registering 629 units sold.
Meanwhile the X70 notched up 2,157 units, and the newer X50 saw 1,756 units registered, with the latter being substantially higher after being on sale for the entire month of November. The compact SUV was launched on October 27, with the company managing to deliver 447 units in the few remaining days of that month.
“Malaysian car sales are continuing to outperform market projections from earlier in the year as we estimate total industry volume (TIV) to be more than 56,000 units for a third consecutive month. A lot of this can be accounted for by traditional end-of-year deals offered by car brands, but this year we can include PENJANA incentives and the launch of popular new models such as the Proton X50 as volume growth drivers,” said Roslan Abdullah, CEO of Proton Edar.
“For Proton specifically, we are continuing to focus on product quality and customer service to deliver a premium product and brand experience. Admittedly, deliveries of the Proton X50 have not ramped up to maximum capacity, but we are being deliberate in our approach to ensure our customers get the best product that meets their expectations, Still, we target to increase our volume each month to shorten waiting times so we urge everyone to please remain patient,” he added.
The company also touched upon its export sales, which it says saw an improvement over last year’s total number of units exported, despite the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. “Export sales will continue to be one of Proton’s main pillars heading into 2021 and beyond. With our domestic market performance having stabilised and undergoing steady growth, renewed emphasis has to be placed on making Proton a regional and global automotive brand,” explained Abdullah.
As a national car company, we represent Malaysia on the global stage and when we grow our export volume, our own local vendor community stands to gain as well. We will have more announcements about overseas market activities in the months and years to come,” he continued.
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Tengkiu Geely! Luaskan kuasamu!!
Buy Japanese for quality and class. Work harder and next car go for Japanese.
Buy Mazda
Work harder and go for Germans
Pay more to get Japanese cars that already proven to be not better in quality and reliability? Hmm, you summed up the Japanese fanboyism perfectly.
30,000 disagrees with you.
never buy Japs cars (except Mazda) very outdated technology design so damn ugly lack of ideas blood expensive unless they buck up as they used to do (listen to what their customers wants). Go for Conti Mazda & Proton instead. Watch out for these companies in the next 3-5 years
If you don’t know how to analyze the data, don’t pretend to understand, your comments will make people laugh.
X50 booking almost 30k, but delivered only 1.7k? 30k is a bulls of sh*t. I more believe 3k booking only LOL P1!
Persona and iriz so bad sales ahh? All this time talk like so good mengalahkan misidis, but end up so bad sales. Can stop iriz and persona production liaw.
If 30k bookings is a bulls of sh*t, why still have so many sales troll (you included) gathering here to smear P1? Honda already need to give rebates to the City, and we all know Honda won’t do that unless sales really slow. Hmm, I wonder what car is the same price with the City again?
Proton X50 average price RM90,125, total delivered 2,203 units, so accumulated sales already RM198,545,375.
Proton Iriz average price RM43,700, November sold 637 units, sales ONLY RM27,836,900.
Proton Persona average price RM47,850, November sold 1,942 units, sales ONLY RM92,924,700.
Perodua dah gagal for not selling 4X more than Proton. Isn’t that what Perodua fanboys were saying.
Goes were the days P2 have to come out with statement the next day after P1 announcement.
Today it is the other way around. P1 have to make a statement after P2 did the previous day.
LCR, have you emailed your CV to VW?
gerard, please elaborate against their annual sales target…YTD 96,410 against ???
Still waiting for their 200K sales since their announcement many years ago….
Haven’t you heard about that thing that’s going around keeping businesses shut and locking up whole countries? Such superior insulation against the outside world news from inside your cave.
P2 boleh je keeping their forecast of 200k.
So? A rice seller has no problems to sell 200million rice grains but a watermelon seller would never be able to sell 2million fruits in a year. Apples to oranges comparison.
So? So proton incompetent lor. Simple like that you also cannot comprehen?
So a watermelon seller makes tons of money but never sells as much as a rice seller is a failure huh? You must have failed in business.
Talking about making money, Proton don’t make much too. Else the company won’t get sold 2 times in 5 years.
We understand X50 is a hot cake… personally feel is not hot enough compare other brands. Keep pushing your limit P1.
Compared to what? What other brand that gave a small SUV but fully packing heat on every level at such affordable prices?