Perodua has released its sales figures for April, and the carmaker registered an estimated 20,399 units last month. This is 16.5% lower than in March (24,431 units), and the market leader cites the global semiconductor chip shortage – which has hit the auto industry hard – as the main reason.
The Ativa contributed 4,624 units, or over 22%, to the April total. This lifts the total units of Ativas registered since its March 3 launch to nearly 9,000. Demand for the compact SUV remains strong with average bookings of nearly 290 units daily.
“The waiting period for the Ativa is currently between two and four months, depending on the desired colour and variant. We advise our valued customers to speak to our authorised sales advisors for accurate and up-to-date delivery times of the various variant-colour combinations of the Ativa,” said Perodua president and CEO Datuk Zainal Abidin Ahmad.
Perodua’s year-to-date sales for the first four months of the year stands at 78,304 units. This is a massive 74% more than the 45,034 units sold in the same period last year, due to minimal registrations in April 2020 as the first movement control order was introduced. Perodua has produced 80,661 units year-to-date despite the chip shortage issue.
“The chip shortage is our top priority at present and we are deploying all our resources to deal with it, including working closely with the government and our business partners for viable solutions. Perodua remains committed towards timely deliveries, aided by our economies of scale,” Zainal Abidin said.
“We thank our valued customers very much for their patience. We are doing all we can to deliver as many cars as possible before the expected expiry of the government’s sales tax exemption in end-June,” the P2 chief added.
Perodua will be maintaining its 2021 sales target of 240,000 units for now. That represents a 9% increase from the 220,163 units it sold in 2020. The Rawang-based carmaker is targeting production of 272,000 units this year (+23%), which is expected to lead to a record purchase of RM6.5 billion worth of local components.
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Woww 78K in 1st 4 months?
Easily pass 220K la like this by year end.
Perodua no problem one.
Taknak pening, taknak boros. Beli aje perodua
Rakyat Malaysia pening kenapa Rocky di Indo lagi murah dari Rocky/Ativa disini. Bukan ke P2 kereta nasional kita, tapi jual mahal ke kita pulak. Cis! Tutup je lah P2 ni!
Yes.. Indeed
Indonesia invest RM500mil into Rocky and gets to export in 50 countries.
Perodua invest RM 2Billion of taxpayer money into Rocky rebadge and gets to remain as jaguh kampung.
We are getting seriously shortchange with Perodua existence.
Still sell far better than ur china celup proton. LoL!
Ur celup china proton combo local+export sales figure oso kenot match p2 LOCAL sales figure.
CelupKing butthurt keyboard warrior owaiiii LoL!
are u daft? what taxpayers’ money? perodua is a private enterprise.
Yeah suddenly taxpayers pay to perodua through touchngo
According to P2 troller, Proton did 5k export sales last month. How many exports did P2 make in the same period? Zero?
If Perodua were to export, the cars will be probably rebadged as Daihatsus or maybe Toyotas when they arrive at the destination country.
Still count as their sales bro and that figures are virtually nonexistent
Sales performance in the local market has fallen by 16.5% from last month.
Perodua is Toyota’s export to Malaysia.
Proton X50, X70 is Geely’s export to Malaysia
X50 X70 no spare part lol
Who wanna buy after this?
Go for bestest perodua brand.
Based on their local offerings why I feel that Toyota shortchanged us while Geely is giving us their full fat models?
According to Perodua’s fan logic, Proton’s export volume is 4x more than Perodua.
KatAxxx di bawah tempurung toking butthurt again. No matter wat u katAxxx dalam longkang kuek kuek kuek toking, sales figures never lie. Accept ur all time defeated by best brand perodua. Hahahaha!
Very good Proton big export jaguh global.
Now lets remove car tax excise duties, ok?
Copy paste: “Daihatsu plans to use Indonesia for export launchpad to 50 countries excluding Malaysia atm. If our market were liberalised and Daihatsu allowed to exports across the sea, you think they would still keep deadwood ‘Jaguh Kampung’ P2? Lmao!”
people buy perodua cars due to price factor, open up the market and see how this burukdua cars can compete
I saw an Ativa smoking,overtaking a BMW 5 series..like Hamilton..oh dear..with no regards to road safety.They are driving like the P1 SA who crashed the x50 in Johor while delivering the suv.
Watch out..the Ativa has overtaken the speedy Gonzalez Myvis.
Ativa Turbo really speedy fast & powerful.
Slower than 1 ton truck.
If market opens up, Perodua will turn as Daihatsu brand even better original Japanese brand higher sales.
Unlike Proton surely gone adios faster, worse if use actual Geely brand.
Daihatsu plans to use Indonesia for export launchpad to 50 countries excluding Malaysia atm. If our market were liberalised and Daihatsu allowed to exports across the sea, you think they would still keep deadwood ‘Jaguh Kampung’ P2? Lmao!
What Kunta logic is this. Daihatsu have an even bigger operation in Indonesia with far larger economy of scale, if the market are opened there is no more reason to keep Perodua running if they can import their cars cheaper from Indonesia plant. Perodua fanboys should stop dreaming their overlords will continue to babysit them when there is no more reasons for it.
If the market were to open up, Daihatsu will probably take over.
Many Rakyat not so brand minded. Bcuz we have a lot B40, M40.
Even Proton and Perodua cars are cheaper than Indonesian and Thailand same engine size/size cars.
The other brands, expensive spare parts and also not any much better fuel saving.
Hard plastic also alot. So do the NVH is just so so.
Honda Hybrid should be much tax exempted.
Last time rm80k range, now rm105k.
Let’s see let’s see
Hyundai Elantra last time rm89k+, now rm140k-rm160k?
Hmm, bcuz of tax?
Rakyat Malaysia pening kenapa Rocky di Indo lagi murah dari Rocky/Ativa disini. Bukan ke P2 kereta nasional kita, tapi jual mahal ke kita pulak. Cis! Tutup je lah P2 ni!
so much uglier than its daihatsu counterpart
Do P2 will sent their CKD kit to Kerawang for Raize/Rocky production there?
No its the other way around. They have economy of scale there compared to here.
Copy paste: “Consumers are finding out that they can get a new 3 box sedan with a 1.3l engine & a 4AT gearbox in the Saga when its price is close to that of a new Axia auto, which is a smaller hatch back with a 1.0l engine.”
Rakyat has the money and means to buy new cars.
Car sales breaking record.
No need financial support from govt any more. FYI, My fav mamak-shop owner just bought himself a new Merc wei.
sure or not production 3,000 units per month but can deliver more than 4,000 units for 2 consecutive months. harly see much Cik Ati on the road. Strange clown will remain clown forever…. :))
Dude, the perodua ativa has been in production since February 2021. They surely know what’s going to sell well.
Now its either you didn’t read enough or you are the clown here.
Proton fanboy: geely suv king yada yada yada