Today is the first day of the second quarter of the year, and Perodua has wasted no time in announcing its Q1 2021 sales results. The market leader sold 57,911 vehicles in the Q1, 29% more than the first quarter of last year (44,977). Of course, this includes contribution from the new Ativa SUV, which was officially launched on March 3.
With the Ativa onboard, Perodua’s month-on-month registrations jumped by 47.3% to 24,433 units in March compared to February’s 16,583 units.
“March saw a jump in our sales numbers to an estimated 24,433 units, underpinned by strong demand, particularly for the Ativa, which has collected 14,574 bookings since we began order-taking on February 19,” said Perodua president and CEO Datuk Zainal Abidin Ahmad, who added that 4,345 units of the SUV were delivered in less than 30 days.
For context, the Proton X50 was launched in late October 2020, and by end March 2021 (five months), the company has delivered 11,654 units of the SUV. Of that total, 3,513 units were delivered in March.
“This makes the Ativa the best-selling compact SUV in the country in the month of March. We are glad that the Ativa has gotten off to such a strong start, and that we well surpassed our 3,000-unit monthly delivery target in the first month,” he added. The P2 chief said that at present, Ativa demand is skewed 67% towards the range-topping AV, which is within Perodua’s projections.
As for production, the Rawang carmaker rolled out 60,383 vehicles in Q1 2021, a 23% year-on-year increase. “For now, our biggest challenge is the semiconductor chip shortage, which is having varying impacts on carmakers on a global scale. We are working with our partners to find alternative supply while at the same time monitoring the situation on a daily basis to ensure continued operation of our production lines,” Zainal Abidin said.
Despite the global chip shortage issue, Perodua will still be able to meet its initial 2021 sales target of 240,000 units, the company said. Announced earlier this year, that sales target is a 9% increase from the 220,163 units P2 sold in 2020.
Perodua is also anticipating a record purchase of RM6.5 billion worth of locally-sourced components this year, as it targets production of 272,000 units (+23%) and 2.4 million service intakes (+20%) this year.
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Well done P2. Great product planning with superb value proposition is their recipe of success. As for P1, despite some improvements still has a long way to go.
But if great product, why isnt here?
paultan.org/2021/03/16/toyota-corolla-cross-compared-to-other-b-c-segment-suvs/
Last year MCO started in Mid of March..
Nothing special. But as long as Good, Fuel Economy cars, continue to be sustainable.
Are we going to get any new MPV this year?
Proton MPV (Exora replacement?) is slated for this year but it could be end of the year with their backlog of orders to fulfill.
https://paultan.org/2020/12/28/proton-in-2021-new-s50-sedan-v70-mpv-or-x90-suv/
Nah. next year I reckoned.
4K delivered in less than a month. This is how people work. Not by blaming the virus for own failure.
Firstly, tell me what’s the ratio of sales vs delivery.
Then, we’ll see how efficient is Perodua.
Women likes Ativa, hooray
Why no news on your Raya special offers?
Tahniah P2
Wow become best selling now in 30 days?
Meanwhile X50 sold 8141 since launched late October 2020, took 4 months to sell 8141 X50 LOL! Ativa only 30 days sold 4345, then 60 days can sell 8k already. Wouldnt take long for Ativa to overtake X50 bad sales, just like lousy Aruz easily overtake X70. LOL!
Inb4: Butthurt P1 fans will say X50 and Ativa not same segment so cant compare bla bla bla. But nextime will pusing again say X50 beat Ativa and start to compare again. LOL!
Lol. Why so butthurt fanboy?
https://paultan.org/2021/03/25/malaysian-vehicle-sales-data-for-feb-2021-by-brand-proton-up-by-96-honda-rebounds-with-a-201-jump/
Kek. 1st quater of year p1 32k vs p2 58k. 2nd quater p2 reach 100k. While p1 need whole year to reach 100k(+exported unit oppsss)
P1 is only 5k behind now. What happen to your 4X sales? P1 is catching up FAST!
Copy paste: “Proton sells quality not quantity. A durian seller won’t compare him superior products with cheapo rambutans sales numbers.”
Both of which are not comparable. Aruz is more to MPV class while X70 is a proper SUV. Miles differences in features offering as well. Same goes to Ativa vs X50.. Furthermore, there were no indication of which variant got sold the most. For Aruz and Ativa though, their pricing average is 70k. While X70 and X50, the pricing average is 100k.. 30k more than P2. Judging from that, of course P2 can sell more volume.
https://paultan.org/2021/04/02/proton-sold-14989-cars-in-march-2021/
I don’t see P2 selling 14,989 x 4 = 59,956 in this quarter much less in March. Does it tell us people are abandoning P2?
P2 fanboys will need lotsa vaseline. A LOT.
https://paultan.org/2021/04/02/proton-sold-14989-cars-in-march-2021
Why butthurt? Did P2 sold less than 14989 units in March?
According to u gaiz, P2 always sell 4X more than P1. So anything less than 59,000 in March alone is a failure from P2. Geddit?
So how many booking numbers for Ativa till today then?
Perodua fanboys big talk 80k bookings in 1st day launch, in fact only 6k bookings in 1st day launch. Now accumulated 14k bookings, much less than they expected.
Sound like p1 fanboi toking that 80k X50 booking number on 1st day launching. 80k booking X50 but only 11k delivered? pity p1 fanboi always kena tipu by booking number. While ariva 4345 delivered on 1st month, in less than 5 month will easily overtake X50 sales, mark my words haha!
So u katAxxx dont just talk shit like kataxxx bawah tempurung. U makan ur musang king durian inside longkang only kesian.
Funny, I don’t recall any car called Ariva.. new ah? But in all seriousness, why does your comment sounds desperate?
Wait!! .. is Ariva = Ativa?? oooohhhhh gituuu
msia driver on Feb 19, 2021 at 1:14 pm
perodua target it will get 70-80k booking for the fist day of launch…
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Ya, I always monitor what you say.
By the end of 2020, there are 30k bookings for X50. So 3 months have gone since then.
Ativa…the brutal blockbuster compact SUV…kipidap P2.
Danny : “For context, the Proton X50 was launched in late October 2020, and by end February 2021 (four months), the company had delivered 8,141 units of the SUV. Of that total, 3,345 units were delivered in February”
Why the urges to keep the comparison with x50?
Crisscrossing category. Could you stick to the black or white not grey.
so now trolling become official as it’s now coming from you,the author journalist.
Kinda embarrassing for x50 to have anything to do with an under Industry standard & rushing product.
They are consistent at being inconsistent. When anything that makes ativa looks good, they roll out that apples to oranges comparison. When time to compare amongst B & C segment suvs, ativa is well hidden from poor results. Like a spoiled child it and the brand gets preferential treatment for some reasons.
P2 ativa nvr did not intend to be compare with x50 in the first place, but still p1 fanboys r picking a fight at p2, when results came in, they acted like sore loser, very communist indeed.
Look at who the sore losers communist around here comparing ativa to superior X50. Such sore losers.
Neymar on Apr 02, 2021 at 12:01 am
Wow become best selling now in 30 days? Meanwhile X50 sold 8141 since launched late October 2020
Axxx Kataxxx on Apr 02, 2021 at 2:05 pm
Sound like p1 fanboi toking that 80k X50 booking number on 1st day launching.
Huh? Where’s your proof that any fanboys started the whole Ativa vs X50 comparison? I always thought myself as on the fence and whenever I read comments, I found most of them are hostile towards P1. Don’t know why is that.. and I’m not surprise if I’m being labelled as P1 fanboy after this despite never bought any P1; and instead having two P2 cars in real life.
This is what we call Malaysia Japan standard.
Best selling A segment suv only. X50 still rules the B segment.
Malaysian women like to buy the most expensive SUV in the same class. In fact, RM71.2k/[email protected]×1.7×1.6 expensive than RM79.2k/[email protected]×1.8×1.6
meanwhile at proton….
Good job P2…not like P1
Lol!
https://paultan.org/2021/03/25/malaysian-vehicle-sales-data-for-feb-2021-by-brand-proton-up-by-96-honda-rebounds-with-a-201-jump/
Ya, good job Perodua selling RM72k for 140Nm, not like Proton selling RM42k for 150Nm.
Copy paste: “Just remove the tax and excise duty a civic can be around 60k also…”
Hahaha.its funny because in Japan (its domestic market) Honda civic cost around 2,948,000 yen = RM110k. good luck with that copy paste things.
Copy paste: “Someone once claimed Mesia had the most expensive car prices in the world. I wonder where that troll is now?”
For 14,754 bookings number, at 4,345 deliveries rate at half month it lokks like P2 plant have to stop production after one and half month since all Ativas have been delivered!
Paultan, do you have the accurate number of how many bookings does the Perodua Ativa have received?
If you know, please email me.
Thank you