The Malaysian Automotive Association (MAA) recently released vehicle sales data for the month of August 2017, which saw 51,720 new vehicles delivered. That’s an increase of 3,167 units or 6.5% from July, but 1% (499 units) lower year-on-year.
Year-to-date (YTD) total industry volume was 384,730 units, which is 4% higher than the 370,152 units recorded in the same period in 2016. MAA cites promotional campaigns by car companies and the fulfilment of back orders (with the e-daftar system returning to normalcy) for the decent results.
Here’s a break down of who sold what in August. Some did better than the others, but by and large most brands recorded gains last month. Non-national leader Honda saw 13.5% growth, which should help it pull away from Toyota in the race. Fellow Japanese mass market brands also saw increased sales – Mazda by 14.4% and Subaru by 87.7%.
Away from the Japanese marques, promos boosted sales at Volkswagen (up 53.7%), Kia (41.9%) and Peugeot (61.4%). Among the few brands not in the gainers list were market leader Perodua (-1.5%) and Ford (-16.9%).
Over in the premium end of the market, Mercedes-Benz saw deliveries rise by 60.8% (YTD of 8,016 is sixth highest, way above many mass market brands including Mazda and Mitsubishi), with Volvo recording strong growth of 212.2%. However, before you jump to conclusions, Volvo’s YTD of 566 units shares a ballpark with Lexus (578) and Audi (516), not Mercedes and BMW (6,631).
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Volvo YTD 566, not much support from Malaysian who always praised volve>all
passenger vehicles, 1/2 honda> toyota; 1/2 toyota> nissan; 1/2 nissan>mazda
How many showroom P1 has? Only 6k sold
May be Geely should consider either improve Proton aftersales service to cater for Boyue, or to set up Geely’s 3S centre to welcome Boyue.
The name Bayu is celaka, don’t know who is having this IQ of 288 to create such a name for this handsome Boyue. Bayu = Banyak layu.
Get a European name please.
…..when basher dun have any dictionary around, too lazy too look for it or put his brain on his knee
Bayu layu. or Bayu kayu.
How many showroom Toyota has? Only 5k sold
Nearly year end already and all Proton can do is 51700 cars?
And this is despite the support from Government departments and Ministries? Nearly all government departments, ministries and authorities buy Proton. PDRM alone buys thousands.
Protong will end the year with 75000 units at the most.
So,taxpayers have to watch for another round of bailout.Geely will not come in n stare at losses.
So the mus will ,as usual listen to the crybaby vendors who will start banging tables for not being paid.
The sinkhole is too deep.Geely may cabut if sales cannot turnaround fast enough.
PDRM buys from many brands. Pls growup ur comments or growup ur mentality.
forgive him bcos he without brain. only knew to bash due to the head put in washing machine from jepunis brand too much.
yes but 90% is Proton. I sometimes see perodua. But most cars are Protons. They buy abt 10k cars per annum
10k car per annum. In few years, every single police have their own car.
how do you “growup” comments? They are sentences and are not alive
Volvo is like chopped liver at a pot luck dinner…no ones touching it!
Tell that to the poor fella in a Jetta v maxed out on LPT being passed by a 22 yr old fully laden stationwagon with 4 pax and still had 1k rpm to play with….
Mazda is a dying brand here, so shame… NOW even >RM200K 3Star & BMW sales better than Mazda; just bcoz arrogant Mazda selling luxury price & given RM0 discount. Further Red soul color (3 layers painting) at Japan, poor facilities Inokom kulim only 2 layers painting Dark Red color.
Beginners buy perodua.
Upgraders buy jepunis.
Rich abangs buy conti.
Rich abangs who are always pokai u mean right..trust me i know this k
Whatever you tried to say, P1 is still on chart
Volvo > All when it come to low sales. Even mazda at same category is 12 times more than it.
Mazda is not same category
Mazda is non luxury
Audi , lexus low sales will be same league and category with mazda then
More mercedes means more limousines and uber drivers on the job too !!
The cx3 is any time more premium than the volvo. Next aims on German car. Hope government reduce car price by 30%
CX3 is a jacked up Mazda2, very crampy
MazdaUSa = You-aim-the-view.
Hope new Suzuki Swift launching here.
Swift? No more service centre la… Proton sudah kincing them into closing all their SC.
DRB mgmt noob decision again
Boyue only can come end of 2018. From now until end of 2018, Proton is still losing RM4 mil perday with such low sales.
How is Proton going to pay their 12,000 workers from now till December 2018?
Also, what happens if Boyue fails? Proton is banking their whole life on just one product to save them
That’s outdated figure, from your cave
Seeing Perodua dropping by few hundred, Proton must be running around sambil sorak plus sembang kencang.
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Is there data on volume based on sales turnover?
Just to compare industry revenue between brands. Would be interesting to see how each brand compare.
This is because 1 unit of Perodua does not mean equal sales value of 1 unit of BMW for instance.
Ehh where all the Havals?
DRB group
1. Honda – 70,836
2. Proton – 51,799
3. Mitsubishi – 4,705
4. Audi – 516
TOTAL – 127,856 units
Naza Group
1. Kia – 2,934
2. peugoet – 1,354
3. Chevrolet – 339
TOTAL – 4,627 units
Tan CHong Group
1. Nissan – 18,606
2. Renault – 409
3. Subaru – 2,898
4. UD trucks – 544
TOTAL – 22,457 units
UMW group
1. Toyota – 44,971
2. Lexus – 578
3. Perodua – 137,225
TOTAL – 182,774 units
Naza group is doing badly.
Look at the naza group.
pathetic…pathetic.
Might as well bungkus.Kia Korea….time to wake up and get a new distributor.
Daihatsu & Mazda part of Toyota.
Daihatsu makes junk and crappy K cars
10% of mazda share to Toyota and hopefully mazda does not inherit the dinosaur and boring cars from toyota .
Aku kalau naik toyota, tak kisahlah hiace ke, hilux ke, avanza ke, mesti pening nak muntah! Berayun-ayun macam sampan!
Toyota sales getting worse and worse!
I wonder why Toyota’s sales keep going down despite various improvements in the last few months. Could it that their products are no longer Malaysians’ first choice anymore?
Various improvements? Your funny man..
Because some vios potential buyer may chooses the cheaper bezza or better specs city. If the new myvi using 1.5 dual vvti engine then vios will probably ends up like avanza that everybody buying the cheaper alza.
consumer is smarter now, it is still no. 1. but more important is the value of money
Proton sales up might due to Geely instruct their own staff who transfer from their own country to purchase a Proton.
The Saga sales shot up ,why? New ceo Li Chun Rong and his executive managers,set the example by saying they will drive Saga once they arrive.The Pondana is reserved for Spanco gomen fleet and old model 8th generation Honda accord lovers.
The current bunch of clown directors and managers drive what cars? Merc? BMW ?
Like that, if follow your logic, Perodua sales dropped because staffs not buying enough Peroduas? Get real, dude.
Overall at least better than the pathetic lower Audi sales.Lexus sales is neither better and low too !!
Toyota , nissan , Mazda sales should compare with equivalent non premium cars like Mitsubishi, Kia , VW ,Peugeot ,Chery, Renault, Isuzu , Perodua , Proton for sales lead.
Nissan sales is greater in number but on company level the profit margin could be horrible.
Even so much bashing on Proton car But sales of Proton is even much better than the boring and ugly Toyota and Nissan cars too
Cheaper brand cars must compare to cheaper brand cars as Apple to Apple ( not orange to apple)
Normally one premium car will cost two or four time higher than cheaper cars , so each sales of expensive car is like having two to four sales of cheaper cars .
So we should equate Toyota or nissan sales to be like >>Overall divided by( two times or three times) = No of premium cars ( depending on model) to be exact.
Toyota each unit of car can easily earn from RM 10,000 to 100,000.
Proton sales up because of persona, its getting more and more at the road. If the vvt engine improves using timing chain, it got nothing to lose compare to the vios or city because of its value price with good specs features.
Timing belt also got good quality and life span.
Never gonna happen.
U can’t squeeze anything else from this dead Campro vvti donkey.
And don’t be arrogant.
Wanna compete then have level playfield.
Cut all subsidies.
See who is more competitive.
KIA overtook Hyundai YTD
Look at BMW, Mercedes,Lexus, Porsche and even Audi. All good sales. Who says economy doing bad? All changing to luxury cars. You all kena brainwash only. Economy still fine
Better than Volkswagen.
Are you sure?
Looking at the chart Lexus , Porsche , Audi are apparently very low now.
Economy is maybe strong but most buyers seems to be avoiding Lexus, Audi and Porsche due to low sales volume
Reasons these cars are more for individual ownerships rather than Mercedes and BMW ( mostly purchase by companies especially mercedes use more by Limousines and fleet services).
Surprisingly low figures for the Koreans KIA and Hyundai compared to the Japanese makes Toyota, Honda, Nissan. Long way to go before they can compete against these established makes.
If i didn’t purchase a car from Honda, their sales will 9732 instead.
Hopefully Honda solved the air bags issues and proven safe once again before I can confidently purchase one.
Right now i am still skeptical over Honda brand
Just curious where is Haval? Under Great Wall?
China cars difficult to sell one la. Rebadged China car lagi more difficult to sell.
Toyota nak jual kereta, tapi tunjuk catalog lama (Innova) dekat website! Nak clear old stock saja ke?
Toyota tak selamat jadi sales drop.
I laugh at Proton, what a useless production company,Perodua released the Bezza and Honda released the Civic,but Proton released Perdana(utter failure, failed Honda Accord), Saga (seen, once in a blue moon), Persona( seen in some places,but not good enough to catch up with other models), Ertiga( almost extinct, its a Suzuki anyway) , 4 models,and yet lesser sales than the previous year, and that China made Boyue a.k.a Bayu is coming to make things worse( as if Proton buyers were interested in SUV’s), get ready for another terrible year, 2018, you’ll become a great competition for Toyota and Nissan, good luck, fed up Proton user!