Proton has released information of its sales performance for the month of January 2018, with 4,783 units sold in the month. This result is 19 less cars than the amount sold in December 2017 (4,802 units). Despite this, the national carmaker forecasted a market share of 10.9%, which is a 2.1% increase from what it obtained during the final month of 2017.
The Saga, Persona and Exora made up 80% of all Protons sold in January 2018, with the company’s entry-level sedan being the most popular among car buyers. “As the most affordable and value-for-money car in its segment, the Saga remains to be the most popular choice among Proton customers, making up 41% of overall Proton car sales,” said Abdul Rashid Musa, vice president of sales and marketing at Proton.
With the Chinese New Year festivities coming up, Proton is offering discounts for all its models – up to RM500 for an Exora, up to RM1,000 for a Saga, up to RM1,000 for a Persona, up to RM5,000 for an Iriz, and up to RM13,888 for a Perdana. Customers can also drop by any authorised service centre for a free 20-point safety inspection.
12 bulan X 4,783 = ? ?
OMG, it is becoming lesser and lesser. I think this year, might even become 50,000 as predicted. And yet, Proton can predict in 2 years time, their sales are 200,000
Hello, Proton, can you please wake up and stop giving the public fake news? Even better by 2027, they say 400,000 cars.
Keep seeing the same copy and paste post using different names with all political intention only. Find a life Mr Keyboard warrior
Not sold… but forced to dealers as stocks
Why people cry got special privileges for their 3S centre?????
Work harder
Ur equation is incomplete.
12 bulan X 4,783 X 12 ASEAN countries =??
ASEAN countries is not in the equation as it is uncertain.
Currently ASEAN countries, people are brand conscious and want Japanese or Mat Salleh brand.
Look at Malaysia for example. How many China cars do you see on the road?
This is the same as other ASEAN countries. People have a phobia towards China products.
Buying Huawei and Xiaomi is one thing. Rm500 item, if it goes wrong, can always throw it into the tong sampah.
But RM100k item, people are too scared to buy China products. How to throw away RM100k car into the tong sampah?
Even Chinese in Malaysia and Singapore refuse to touch China made car….and it is the same in other ASEAN countries.
Nothing is uncertain to mainland Chinese. Only willing or not. And Geely has shown their willingness time and time again. So tremble with fear and warn ur jepunis lords for we r coming.
Chinese brand grows more than indian tata, i think tata just went extinct in msia
You are absolutely right. Samsung is selling so well here but the same cannot be said to Korean cars. Same goes to iphone vs American cars in Malaysia.
Now 1S centre making noise about CEO of Proton.
Wow Msia colonize the whole ASEAN. Lmao
Do u need to colonize to sell in a country? Then we wud have colonize UK, Aus, USA many times over! Lmao
I travel to Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam and Philippines every other day on work. I rarely see any China cars on their roads.
Proton and Geely is pulling a fast one on us telling us China cars will sell well in ASEAN
for the month of January 2018, with 4,783 units sold in the month. aiyaaa..read propely laa…
At say 5000 units a month,poor Protong will hit around 60000 units by CHRISTMAS 2018.
This is due to the late introduction of Boyue..which perhaps add another 2000 units to the 60,000…making it 62000 units.
So Geely/DRB is staring at another record loss of a Billion ringgit again.So another BAILOUT?
Mr LI…..please understand our culture.We dont send u to the firing squad if u fail.Just bungkus ,and close shop.LELONG LOCK STOCK BARREL,LAH.
Fear leads to anger.
Anger leads to hate.
Hate leads to suffering.
So fear P1Geely, for they r coming.
Geely oredi written off this local venture from their books. Gotten Lotus stake for sports car technology and Daimler for their electric cars technology.
You think they really care about how many car they sell or just buying time to keep their job?
Hihihi. P1 total sale for January only 4783 units. P2 Myvi alone sapu all.
Slowly but surely 400,000 units P1 on the road.
Proton does not know how to run a business. 80% of their sales come from Saga, Persona and Ertiga.
We can also assume, the remaining 20%, bulk of it is Government ordered Perdanas.
So Proton, why don’t you downsize your company, downsize your overbloated staff by dropping all the unnecessary models like Exora, Suprima, Perdana, Preve etc etc etc??
At least, the company will start making money. Concentrate on the 3 models which make up 80%. The other models hardly make up any sales anymore yet you keep the lines running and paying hefty royalty to Honda Japan for the rebadged Perdanas.
Proton can half its cost this way. Pity all the CEOs could not figure this out.
I’m not sure if it’s a typo or what but it’s written Exora not Ertiga. If it’s really Exora, the Ertiga was certainly not price well as it just replacing the Exora CPS instead of going one segment under Exora.
You are showing concerns, but yet suggesting ideas for hundreds to lose their job.
I understand the reason, I just couldn’t comprehend the ideas, the suggestions.
Loads in here commented about the government losing monies, or government robbing monies, the GLCs doing this and that that are not benefitting the citizens in fact actually killing us and sucking us dry slowly. Most of them I agree. But what comes after – the suggestions, the ideas – most of them are plain stupid and ignorant.
Think before you talk. If you can’t or you couldn’t, you might as well just shut up. If you don’t want to, then you are indeed stupid.
how you know who going lose job laa..big company got subsidaries la..got strategies planning la..aiyaaa…wake up laa..
Proton, be proud you are a small car maker. the problem with Proton, they got gaya and want style. They must show they got D segment range Perdana.
If you can only sell B segment cars, be proud.
Perodua is like this. For 20 years, they were proud they were a B segment car maker. So, they tapped the market and became a success.
Proton, until today must gaya. Have models that cannot sell. C segment and D segment is completely dead for you Proton.
Learn to be proud of yourself. Drop your C and D segment lines and you will be making lots of money.
Actually what Proton should have done in order to make its own D segment car is to make use of its Waja platform, increase wheelbase by 12cm (from 2600mm to 2720mm) and built a totally new body like what they did with Perdana Mk III. They can also use Preve platform, increase wheelbase of 20cm and give that CFE a 170bhp power. But please please, increase the engine internals to take on the extra power.
you can apply ceo proton lor..can replace Dr lee..such know everything in automotive line..
Ya, seriously, how come no one ask – WHAT WAS THE POINT OF REBADGING OLD GENERATION ACCORD???
All that cost, all the hype – and no one buys it!
What a stupid waste of money!
nissan tanchong also going drop laa..what so weird la..business maa..
Perodua sold 17,693 units in Jan 2018 against TIV of 43,930 units, that’s MY market share of over 40%.
P2 only jaguh kampung. Nuff said.
Oh really ???!!! But,but,but,but john! P2 with their sales figures have hit all time high. Not like “Potong” talking all time high in their dreams only nowadays.. Hah!
26 Jun 2013:
Proton eyes No. 1 spot in 2 years
Proton Holdings Bhd is confident of recapturing the top carmaker slot, in terms of sales volume, in Malaysia within the next two years.
“We intend and are sure of making a comeback to the number one slot within the next two years,”
Proton parent DRB-Hicom Bhd had earlier this year also set a target to sell 500,000 Proton vehicles within the next five years.
This article was 2013. they said 5 years. that is 2018.
But sales are hardly 70,000 a year.
They aim 500,000 but only managed to sell 70,000
Last month again they said aiming for 500,000!
Confident of recapturing & setting a lofty 500,000 units is Gud but if fail to achieve, it will be a laughing stock. Let me know what U & john are smoking bcos I also want to FEEL high.
Geely sales sapu 2X MY TIV. jeles much?
Geely sales is Geely sales. It has nothing to do with Proton. Infact, all their profits will go to their own Shareholders. Not a single sen will be given to Proton. So, don’t syiok sendiri.
Only Geely JV with Proton…Boyue, that also 49% of profits will be given to Proton.
We wait and see whether Boyue can cover the cost of Proton running with an overbloated staff ratio
Boyue won’t save Proton. Just look at how many Proton buyers qualify for 100K loan? If many qualify, then sales of the 60-70K range models will be the hot seller. Discount govt & GLC buyers, very few people will buy & the units sold won’t make a significant game changer for Proton. If Proton buyers could afford a 100K car, they would have bought other brands already. To snatch buyers of other brands over to Proton with the Boyue is a very very hard sell unless it’s priced at 60-70K bracket. As of now, people are affraid of their SC, quality and attitute of their staff while servicing cars. If it’s sold cheaper, some richer buyers may give it a try cause if it doesn’t work out the loss is lesser to ditch it. At 100K, these buyers would prefer more established brands. Current Proton supporters from the 30-60K range can only drool over Boyue but not be able to buy.
Pipu buy p2 coz it is cheap not bcoz it is good
yawnz.. or yekkk.
P2 selling cheap cars since 1994 and Proton become no 1. After 2005, P2 still selling cheap cars and Proton at No 4. Please go back and study!
Wowzers! Even all them say Mivi so hot but P1 only lose 19 unit sales. P1 fanbase strong as ever and will grow even bigger with Geely involvement. Go go P1, Geely!
19 unit compared Proton last year Dec , bro
Ye lah. That means those who alredi chose to buy P1 continue stick to their decision. Only 0.4% change their minds. Thats an astoundingly loyal fanbase that never wavered from their decision, once they tried a P1. And its only up up up from here on, with Boyue slated incoming.
ke arah 400k sale 2027
ke arah 444k sale 2050
Detik2 terakhir sebelum tutup kedai. Bulan feb sale tentu lg teruk. Bulan yg pendek dan masa bekerja pendek. Sale pun yilek.
Semua business pun sama saja la beb.
Jan 18 no need say myvi over 9k sold, axia 4085 sold is enuff to equal all p1 model leh.
Good time to get a perdana…damn cheap now wei
You might not believe it but actually the salesman can make 23k from selling a perdana 2.4L at RRP pricing. The thing is who wanna buy
Come back to me my baby. I’ll make u great once again in 2 years..after I got back in power.
Honda the Power of dreams
Government bought how many unit? 1k? 2k? 3k?
Some one claimed majority of P1 sales wuz from gov, but PT alredi broke that fake news, with 97.5% of sales is coming from dealer end customers. So how to belip basher now?
You mean only 2.5% is bought for PDRM, Bomba, TLDM, TUDM, Kastam, Immigresyen, PNB, JPJ and hundreds of Government departments?
PDRM alone buys 8000 Protons from Proton every year.
Spanco alone buys few thousand Proton cars to lease to Government Ministries.
Don’t forget, Proton only got 70,000 sales.
You sure 2.5%??? 2.5% is 1400 cars.
Oh wai…..either Proton is lying or you are lying.
Proton..RM500 – RM1000 for car discount is not attractive at all… u should improve your marketing strategy.. offer bodykit instead.. or free quality tinted instead.. u can have joint promotion with tinted company to get good pricing for proton.. Proton really need to hire new sales and marketing and new designer to revamp the whole structure. Just the CEO is not enough. Just my opinion. Lastly, RM500 discount you damm funny if you ask me
if honda sell the civic same price as preve, all the manufacturers also close shop.
Civic? Go dream hor.
Look at the price Civic selling in Australia.and the difference with Preve over there. And you will realise how cock is Honda in Asean (Indonesia, Thailand. Vietnam) selling the cars now at the same level as Malaysia (because government make more money, and the dealers get higher profit).
will never touch or buy a proton ever again…no matter how “good” they improve
Ya ya. As if pipu belip u got a mod kaw Civic tebo.
Agree… bad quality, bad RV..
no one care bro..its your money..
P1 service centre almost my 2nd office when I owned a Gen2
Becoz u work there? Helloooo!
obviously you don’t own one
Way to go ertiga
I love ertiga
Thank ypu suzuki
ertiga also go to proton lor..aiya open your eye ear lor..
Erm… this is P2 average 1 weeks sales figure.
Well done proton..thts no bad nos…keep it up u can do it…we or some still support u..btw sack those kids at the service center ya..hire adults with higher iq and respect..than yr sales sure triple wan…mr ceo monitor them directly for 6 mths…yang mana teh trarik kari pak maya…kick off…problem solve…siapa cakap biasa la bang kan ini proton..masuk itu celaka lokap hor..
P1 is suffering from their karma, karma, karma and more karma based on what they have done to the rakyat…This is a curse.
So many years, P1 had denied choices of cars, good & safe cars, affordable cars from the rakyat….
Give one reason why one should buy a proton? It drives like a car in the 80’s with the exception of those rebadged models.
Geely management team disappointed all Malaysian. Proton sales goes down from month to month after Geely came in, means that Geely team is even worse than the DRB team which had at least 7000 units per month.
Sales number is there, so spot on, and yet they dare to dream big. Malaysia tiv of passenger car is around 600k unit annually, how on earth they gonna sell 400k unit, even included exported number. There so many constraints for proton to be exported, emissions, price, competition etc. So simple, dont talk too much and too far, just try to beat perodua first. Is funny too, y so many news surrounding proton lately,while its sinking so deep. Hope d government will not entertain proton drb, geely anymore, let them figure out themselves.
What happen to the super fantastic Iriz? You mean its wrongly priced & people prefer to buy the Iriz sedan aka Persona instead?
Bila la nak lebih dr 10k. Beroperasi di 2 buah kilang perlu jual >10k/mth. Mcm mana nak survive. Tolong rasional
Yes, increase in market share means improvement in market captured compared to competitors!