February 2017 was a slow month for the auto industry, but that surprises no one, as the second month of the year is also the shortest work month, which means that less cars get sold. That’s how it is every year.
Last week, the Malaysian Automotive Association (MAA) released production and sales figures for February, and it showed sales volume declining 5% (2,212 units) from January, which itself was 31% down compared to the year end rush of December 2016.
Short month aside, MAA said that market conditions, which aren’t the most rosy now, remain unchanged. However, both year-on-year and year-to-date figures are up by around 4,500 units, compared to in 2016.
Here’s the break down of who sold what. The gainers are Perodua (+16.9%), Nissan (+16.3%), Kia (+24.1%) and Volvo with a massive 192.3% jump from January figures. Doing less well than Jan are Honda (-10.5%), Proton (-15.4%), Toyota (-22.0%), Mazda (-42.8%) and Hyundai (-42.8%).
The top six on the year-to-date leaderboard are unchanged from Jan. Perodua tops the league ahead of leading non-national brand Honda, Proton, Toyota and Nissan. The gap between Honda and Proton has widened though, and as the top five are now in double figures, they’re creating a big gap from the chasing pack led by Nissan.
Mazda, which was seventh in Jan, has slipped to tenth in the league. Mercedes leads BMW in the premium segment. Mitsubishi is also out of the top ten.
The pacesetters have started 2017 on full throttle. Honda launched the BR-V seven-seater in the first week of the year, followed by the facelifted City earlier this month. Overall market leader Perodua launched the Axia facelift in January.
MAA predicts that sales volume will rise in March, as this is a longer month compared to February, and there’s also a continuation of attractive offers by car companies. After March, we’ll be able to see how the brands did for the first quarter of the year, a better barometer.
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Honda will sure maintain its 2nd place for long
Proton still the best choice for Malaysians. Graduates take note!
Buy Proton?
No quality, no face, no time to watch movie (all money goes to garage), no money to upgrade next car… That’s why so many Wira Iswara on the road, it is a vicious cycle. Every university graduates know it.
Minus Commercial Vehicle..Toyota just sold about 1,016 Passanger Cars! Wow UMW really in deep trouble.And new Vios design not that impressive too.New Altis is nowhere to see and new Camry still can’t fight current Accord.Soon every Toyota branches and dealers left with 2-3 SA only..Meanwhile Honda sold 7k plus units stomping Toyota like John Cena beating a twink.With a decades of success history,Toyota never ever accomplished what Honda did in just 3 years.Honda manage to secured all categories.All but Pick Up segement.Compact hatch,B,C,D sedan,MPV,SUV..Toyota only breathing on Hilux.Toyota really in bad shape.
JC, sorry 2 correct U here. Total sales of passenger vehicle for Jan is 4441 & Feb is 3274
Total sale is 7715 & NOT 1016. They are still No4 after deducting the commercial vehicle. Pls don’t take it personal bro. Cheers …
Agreed
OMG OMG, Proton can only sell 6099 cars? Is this real? Proton Edar staff alone is few thousands.
You mean few thousand staff can only sell 6099 cars? And this is despite mega huge amount is ordered by the Government and Ministries.
Even if there is mega bonus (LOL!), it din go to PE employees. Why wud it when they r not civil servants?
Ferrari monthly sales is also lesser than the amount of staff they has.
Proton is selling more because Proton has not reached the Ferrari level, only Volvo and BMW level at the moment.
Even with the assault of four new models last year,stil cudnt regain the 2nd spot meh proton..
Good to see P1 is set for another year of failure, validating what all the commentators here have been saying for decades. Proton is NOT a national brand, but a national embarrassment.
Launched four models last and no new models for the next four years.
Less cars, more public transport!
Lets make our PM vision a gr8 success!
Taknak la.
Toyota and Protong…..in big big shit.Look at their sales. Now,they share the same marketing strategies.
Rebates…rebates….rebates.
Even honda,lost 10 percent inspite of new products.
So,can this be a ROSY year? Perodua is selling mainly to AFFORDABLE markets,since protong is dead,waiting for the white knight.
U may escape being a bankrupt,cos the loan default has to exceed rm50000.But do want to go thro life,being blacklisted even tho u r not a bankrupt?
Raya is coming….the offers r very tempting..think before u get a loan.
A BLACKLIST is very difficult to ERASE.
28 days in Feb vs 31days in Jan is less by almost 10%. Those who want a car before CNY will push to get one before 25th Jan and for 1 week within the CNY there would of course low traffic to showroom. So 10% drop for Honda in Feb is a non issue. Let’s see if over next 3 months will there a good fight back effort from Toyota. If honda offering Jazz hybrid or even a 1.5 turbo for honda city in 2017 would be interesting.
Proton sales is indeed stable. hahahah
MAA “predicted” more sales in March..even a kid knw tat…wat an easy job for them
Economist coconut orso predicted harga kreta jatuh 30%..
wat happened to Mazda? only 460 units sold? Mazda 3 & CX-5 CKD quite value for money compared to other japanese makers.. why cannot sell? hmm…
poor Mazda (-42.8%) , wrong pricing and sales strategy
That’s rakyat punishing them for being greedy, keep giving stupid excuses to increase price, thinking we all born yesterday.
Did u know that they quietly increased their car prices? Mazda 3 and Cx-5 each went up by almost RM3k. Whereas all the other brands are offering good rebates, Mazda arrogantly increased their prices. This is padan muka
surprisingly VW still able to sell 602 YTD
its failure for those GLC running the show! LOL
Protong, Toyota all gone..
No problemo. Gov is focusing on public transport now. If cannot turn around, then will cut losses.
there are people still buying VW??
Havent seen any new Vento, Jetta and Passat on the road..
Tour De Langkawi.
VW is still global best seller even after diesel fiasco
The gap between Honda and Proton has widened though, and as the top five are now in double figures.
Should be top four, since Nissan is not double figure and is leading chasing pack.
now new cars sales figures are down, later motorbike sales figure oso down….Economy malaysia isnt doing any good…..
At Sarawak I saw more KIA than Mazda and Hyundai.
just look at toyota total sales. Perodua sold 30K unit of cars (all are rebagded Toyota/Daihatsu cars, under license with minor changes) while Toyota and Lexus sold close to 11k units. total = 41k, which is about 50% of market share.
Can MAA up the ante and do one for used car sales by Brand? Show the world Malaysia boleh
Wow where is Greatwall/Haval? Not even listed ?
May be they don’t count sales that’s negative value. Why negative? B’cse give away, free. … especially same car model that change names every 1 or 2 years yet price keep going up.
Wow where is Greatwall/Haval? Not even on the list?
Haval not register with MAA