The Malaysian Automotive Association (MAA) vehicle sales data for the month of December 2017 saw numbers climb from that registered in November.
The final month of the year saw a total of 54,729 vehicles sold, an 11.3% or a 5,545 unit increase from the 49,184 vehicles achieved in November. Year-to-date (YTD), or in this case, the 2017 total industry volume was 576,635 units, down 0.6% compared to 2016’s TIV of 580,085 vehicles. Up to November, the overall volume had remained ahead of 2016 by 1.3%.
Here’s a quick breakdown of how most brands performed last month. Like in November, four of the top five players registered increased sales – market leader Perodua’s numbers were up by 21.3%, while Honda had a 7.1% increase. Toyota sales also climbed, by 7.0%, and Nissan again saw a marginal increase in sales numbers.
As it was in the previous month, the sole top five player which saw sales dip for a second month running was Proton, though with only an eight unit difference from November it was only a 0.2% drop.
Other gainers in December were Subaru (+28.2%), Volvo (+26.6%), Renault (+22.4%), Volkswagen (+13.8%) and Mitsubishi (+13.3%), while brands that saw sales drop included Mazda (-29.6%) and Kia (-11.6%).
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Perodua has done so well without Government help or orders.
If all Government departments, PDRM, Bomba, KDRM etc etc etc (hundreds of Jabatans) order from P2, it will be 310,000
Bravo to P2. You make us proud. They never ask 1 sen of bailout either
Top 10 Reasons Why Rakyat Prefer Perodua:
10. Perodua never blame rakyat, banks, taxis except themselves if sales is low.
9. Proven quality dual-vvti timing chain engine jimat minyak 20km/liter without leaking turbocor whatsoever.
8. Proven quality auto gearbox far cheaper to maintain than those noisy jerky CVT with twice or triple more expensive gear oil.
7. Perodua never ask RM billions and billions soft-loans from govt whenever making huge gigantic losses every year.
6. Perodua never re-test its ANCAP car twice if scored 1-star while giving silly excuse it is for previous and new model.
5. Perodua never give lifetime warranty if it cannot solve the power window problem.
4. Perodua will always have high RV (resale value) and low RV (regret value).
3. Perodua always keep most its car price below RM60K and never selling Rm130k d-segment only to lelong it huge discount a year later effectively killing its RV resale value down to drain for nothing.
2. Perodua never quitely skip or remove top tether safety device only to be caught pants down by ANCAP later.
1. Perodua never annoy buyers by keeping signal stalk on right-side, unlike others with left-side signal as if it can export 1 million units to LHD markets.
Omg, all volvo fan boys talk big. See the miserable sales we all know.
Those Audi and Lexus fanboys must be really disappointed to find that Volvo sales is way ahead of Audi and lexus.
Those fanatics fanboys especially from Audi that brag a lost will suddenly feel shy , depress and had to face the reality now for sure.
DRB brands got so used to losing. Audi notwithstanding
Told you sushi car is all the way! Sales figures tell no lie.
Those Sendiri Cakap Sendiri Syok can keep on dreaming and bragging about Proton quality and safety.
Audi and Lexus are more premium car. Compare correctly please.
Sorry to burst your bubble. While I have high respect for P2 because they are indeed the better Malaysian automaker (fact), they do somewhat blame banks’ stringent hire-purchase loan approval rate which is lower than what P2 would like. First time car buyers for P2 cars are just not convincing enough to the banks unlike other non-national brands.
Butul. Just imagine those loan rejected cases. Easily added another 100K units to Perodua total 210k cars sold.
Congrats to UMW too, who has good shares in Perodua.
Tsk Tsk, UMW Toyota was only 1,500 units away from grabbing 3rd place behind market leaders Perodua and Honda. Kalau mereka dah insaf dan bertaubat and bring new and updated cars with good, fit for 2018 specifications paired with reasonable pricing, they can get that number 3 position and kick Baoteng down.
All new Camry, Harrier, Rush plus CHR will start UMWT 2018 onslaught! Toyota Most advanced plant in Bkt Raja next year.
I’m not surprised that Renault increased 22% – their C-segment Fluence is being sold at B-segment prices. It’s a bargain, RV notwithstanding.
I actually bought one myself, and I just love the car.
ekceli Inspira a better C-segment car. Cheaper & higher specs then fluence.
>No VSC, only 2 airbags
>Higher spec
Topkek.
Under power with stupid CVT gear box
Malaysian still go for luxury german like merz, bmw, audi and Vw.
With jepunis engine, gearbox, Fluence deserves much more recognition.
But mainstream consumers are car noob, see Renault badge, sked French cepat rosak, parts mahal, no RV. They’re missing out a lot, meanwhile go buy Civic that’s rm40k dearer yet cannot fold rear seats, topkek.
Renault servis is really topkek. SC is rarer than diamonds and servis selow due to Tan Chong tido.
Actually, since the Fluence engine is also used in the Sylphy & Teana, you can actually send it to Nissan SC for service.
No I got ask them b4; since TCEuro and ETCM is brother sister, can send Renault car to ETCM servis? They said no way.
I just noticed this comment.
Don’t lielah John. I recently sent to Nissan SC in Chan Sow Lin. Many other Fluence owners have sent their cars to Nissan SCs before also.
Proton again showed another dip. This is besides so many Government orders and Spanco orders.
Spanco orders over 10,000 cars per annum from Proton
PDRM alone orders 8000 cars from Proton
Not bad at all. P1 only drop 8 units, basically managed to retain their customer base despite Mivi launched. Thats means, P2 no longer can make any dents to P1 sales. Kudos to P1! Gud job!
Now with the turn of the year, its time to focus on continuing to increase market share again via Boyue. And they shud reveal what other new models to come out for next year.
Its gonna be an exciting future for P1! All 31 million MY pipu (even P2 SAs) r looking forward to whats coming out next!
That’s a full year sales for 4 new Proton models. At 70K? OMG. Are you serious? This is so funny.
Well, P1 din launch any new models last year yet maintained its steady sales & even managed to increase its marketshare.
Meanwhile ur toyota is going down the drain with even less cars sold than P1 despite launching so many new dinosars and kept on “updating” the ancient vios.
P1 has brighter future. Toyota… not so much.
hey, u had repeated this in 2016, 2017, 2018… are you a recorder that had been scheduled to repeat the same thing every time? u are too so high
Stop spinning la. Last year was the year for Proton to show off the prowess of Proton on the 4 models launched late 2016. Sadly the sales is about the same as Toyota with dinosaur model.
See whos the spinning.
2016 was 2016. Last year was last year. Last year was consolidation for P1 and despite the uncertainty of the takeover by Geely or PSA, it managed to gain more market confidence without any new models. The only other that did the same, ETCM Nissan, lost even more market share in an increasing non-local segment. Ur toyota was even worse, doing so much including that shiok sendri vios racing, and came out of 2017 with even less market share. P1 did better than its peers despite of all that and thats very comendable and a great effort from team P1. Kudos to them!
Every year is a consolidation year for proton. By your logic, new car launch only increase sales for 1 year. The problem is 2016 was bad for proton, 2017 was worst. Game changing konon.
According to john’s logic.
Introduced 4 new models in 2016, slightly lower sales in 2017 = good
It doesn’t matter if baoteng introduced 0 cars or 4 cars or 8 cars, as long as sales more or less the same as previous year, it’s all good for him. Other companies would have a hard time to justify negative net sales despite introducing 4 new products. It just means market is indifferent to your brand and products.
If market is indifferent to P1, then they totally hated Nissan & Toyota based on the figures and ur logic.
Of course, both UMWT and ETCM paid the price for having product planners sleeping on the job while the directors busied themselves in meetings which do not accomplish anything. Padan muka sales drop.
Later this year Geely plans to release MPV, which should be launched here soon to replace Bao Teng Exora. Design so good, powertrain modern and fuel efficient, pricing sure reasonable.
Soon, Malaysians can say tak nak pening, tak payah fikir, beli je Bao Teng.
Proton sold 70991 》Toyota 69492 only.
Its in the Drive!!
Only 2 Reason Why Proton Failed:
1. Anything above RM60K, rakyat all buy Honda/Toyota cars.
2. Anything below RM60K, rakyat all buy Perodua cars.
TIV contracted for the second consecutive years despite government is saying that the economy is good. Yeap, the household income grows, but so does the cost of living resulting in a lesser disposable income ..
Dun just see overall figure but look at the breakdown. Theres more buyers for foreign makes now and luxury brands ekceli grows at fastest pace compared to others. That means MY pipu disposable income grew large enuff for them to consider better cars, not more cars.
And the reason for TIV drop is due to better public transports now.
What is not shown in the MAA report is the fact that 70% of new vehicles sales were by a maximum loan period ie 9 years. Thus, more disposable income is not really true, rather because of this abnormal long loan period. That is also the reason for the increase in the household debt.
And what’s the share of 9 year loans in the preceding years?
It doesn’t matter if it’s 7 years or 9 years, what matters is that there are more people able to pay more for foreign cars, and that’s a fact.
The government will reduce the financing period once the household debt goes beyond control. Well, that will the time that the TIV will collapse .. we will see. Hopefully, the government has all the bullets and fundamentals to keep the current financing period ..
Not really. Banks r typically more strict to those requesting 7years term, requiring more documentation and paperwork to vouch that the loanees income can sapot the long loan and its due to other factors like high gearing which caused the applicator to request 7years. Deswai the high rejection rate, its cuz banks alredi screen out those potential bad loans.
Malaysia’s GDP & income growth rate among the highest in Asia. KL cheapest Asean city to live in, Singapore remains world’s most expensive. And Malaysians now enjoying much higher living standards…
Even when throwing massive discount Potong still almost finished at 4th place. It’s in the drive!! Garbage cars
Suzuki Swift! Suzuki !
Don’t u think malaysian loves subaru?
Nah! Its becoz Subaru janji telah ditepati by giving diskaun 30% and more.
Yep. Subaru success, Tan Chong steady!!
I think Subaru deserves to climb up the charts higher and beat Ford and Mitsubishi, keep beating the hopeless Koreans and Frenchies again and be within spitting distance of the overpriced Mazdas. It may not be able to climb over VW though. It deserves a better market position because the cars are of good quality, quite solid and reliable (I used to co-own an XV).
As for Honda, I own one which I bought last year. To be really honest and IMHO they don’t deserve second place because their cars are of poor build quality and their service people are trained by monkeys. How a top-spec Accord can have rattles in doors and dashboard after 6 months really boggles the mind! Honda Pride my arse!
Subaru really needs to improve its drab interior. You do feel they are just one or two changes away from hitting a best seller.
But I like Subaru’s function over form interior which can probably survive a tsunami. It’s rugged and also more manly.
Which Brand does the “Maxus G10 SE by Weststar” fall in this list? Would like to know how well it sells…
Ford only sold 26 cars? Without their trucks, Ford can close shop in Malaysia already.
If the government allow foreign car manufacturers to price their car the same as P1 and P2, P1 and P2 will be selling worst than TATA.
Oh dear what happen to King Pin Toyota? Oh wait no good products to sell. Too bad your brand can’t just selling reliability.
Toyota alredi using their last card, which is to badmouth other brands. Its game over real soon.
Better than the volvo. Even VW the same category car sell a more than chinese volvo
Thats becuz ur comparing apples to oranges. Try comparing Volvo with Audi instead
Nancy
Even Lexus sales had lost to Volvo in which Lexus itself is in the same category as Peugeot and even Jaguar is way better looking and also handle better than Lexus anytime.
As for Toyota , it is just horrible which is still using dinosaur engine technology in which it is worst comparing to Honda , Mazda and other continental brands . Furthermore , Toyota rides like SAMPAN that always make passenger feel sea sick riding in it and how could it be better than Volvo??
Anyway, Toyota is just a non premium brand and please compare it with Proton, Perodua , Honda, Mitsubishi and stop wasting your time comparing Toyota with those premium brands like Audi , Volvo , Jaguar , Range Rover , BMW .
Toyota badge is just an ordinary japanese car only nothing special to feel exciting at all.
A young kid at the age of 12 can tell you Volvo is way better than Toyota when he or she see one..
Since you are suffering from dementia , you will put the snail to be running faster than the hare .
Illogical to say Toyota better than volvo. I suspect something is really wrong with you..
Oh dear poor Audi… apparently more Merc and BMW buyers than Audi… you need to push up your brand name… even Lexus got more sales than you and most Lexus are that biggy RX and NX. Audi you had the full fleet from A4 to Q7. You can do it… sell A4 same price as vios… pasti boleh!
Audi car design is like russian dolls .
The design is so ugly and every models look alike in the line up.
How to selland entice buyers?
Seems like Audi will soon close shop in Malaysia as it is losing monies .Perception is that it is not so luxury level.
The selling of every Audi models is losing out to other luxury brands like
A4 lose out to 3 series and c class
A6 lose out to 5 series and E class and very soon S90
Q5 lose out to XC60 , X3 and GLC
Q7 lose out to XC90
Which line up of AUDI models is nice looking ,elegance and pleasing to the eyes? Even at times it is problematic to fix too.
Now even with very low financing interest rate offering , seems like NO buyers are touching them too!!
Most AUDIs on the roads are mostly recond models especially A4 and Q5 are from gray importers where it is cheaper to buy and less reliable to own , something like buying a European second hand car !!
Audi lost to Volvo & Lexus. All DRB brands dropped sales..
Audi? Audi isnt franchised by DRB.
What happen to my favorite CITROEN ? you mean they never sell anything for 2017 ?
Surprisingly Citroen has fans in this country.
I noticed too. I suspect they are not a member of the MAA, so no numbers.
Diarbi still hold a big chunk of the market. They dont have to do r&d but can get higher return for selling premium price car from diferent brands. Good strategy diarbi for keeping pronton at the back seat. Some more they can get money from china mainland gely plus r&d grant from govt. Thats lightning strike same spot 3 x! Hohoho..
Same sad stories.
https://paultan.org/2016/06/02/drb-hicom-posts-net-loss-for-fy2016-due-to-proton/
Lexus sales is dropping , perhaps the line up of the models are ugly and superficial looking to entice buyers.
After all the selling price asking is crazy and does justify the quality standard and technology of the car.
Furthermore, Lexus is king of RV Depreciation .
Only 4 Lamborghinis sold??? What about Ferrari and McLaren? I’m sure the Malaysian elite aren’t falling on hard times. Or do they buy their supercars through the grey import route?
Uno Lim
Never heard anything about “more premium” except just the word “premium”. Please do not make up more when it is not.
Anyway , Audi and lexus are same category as VW and Peugeot ( nothing special) and way below the taxi status Mercedes and typical average joe’s BMW and Safety king Volvo..
Does anyone of you know how much did Lotus sell in 2017? It would be interesting to know.
Does anyone know how many cars did Lotus sell in 2017? It would be interesting to find out.