After a slow month in February, vehicle sales in the country climbed in March. The 49,985 vehicles that were registered during the month represented an increase of of 9,407 units, or 23.2%, over that managed in February. The stronger performance was largely due to March being a longer working month and also from companies rushing to deliver cars, specifically those that ended their financial year on March 31.
Here’s a quick breakdown of how most brands performed in March. All but one of the top 10 registered an increase in sales, with Perodua (+21.0%), Honda (+29.3%), Toyota (+30.2%), Proton (+9.0%) and Nissan (+53.6%) remaining firmly placed in the top five.
Other strong performers in March were Mitsubishi (+38.0%), Volkswagen (+55.0%), Subaru (+30.4%), Peugeot (+30.4%) and Renault (+73.5%). Only a few brands saw a dip in sales then, with Kia (-7.5%) being one of those which had a softer month.
Another was premium segment market leader Mercedes-Benz (-20.3%), and Porsche (-24.4%) also had a slower month. Others in the segment fared better, BMW registering a +6.1% increase in sales, while Volvo managed a +53.2% climb over that managed in February. Lexus, meanwhile, showed a +92.9% increase, effectively nearly doubling its sales from February.
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Toyota overtook Proton!
Hahahaha that’s commercial vehicle, look at pessenger vehicle, Toyota still below P1
How come foreign car like Honda can overtake local car like Proton? Where’s the logic?
Btw, Toyota is catching up in passenger vehicles
market is more open not like couple decade ago
Market more open? How come car prices are still not the same as Labuan or Langkawi?
Kesian Toyota. Only 7% market share. Even PT bashing boy Proton do better, 10% market share.
Toyota 40% market share + P2 + Daihatsu
Subaru, Isuzu and Hino are also belongs to Toyota.
Why don’t you narrow it further to a category called Suprima where Proton scores 100%.
Bye bye volvo. Sales is worse ever.
Sayo nara to Audi . Audi sales is pathetic 40 units todate. how to survive ? so Lexus total sales is even worst ever than Volvo in comparison.
Have not seen a single s90 on the road yet.
Even Volvo trucks sell more than Audi even though it cost much more than Audi. Audi sales is the worst ever compare to other premium cars. Volvo sales went up by 53.2% and Lexus went up 92.9% . These two premium had nicely shown sales improvement till todate and congratulation to both of these two desirable brands.
Audi’s truck – MAN & Scania are doing well too…even its bike – ducati are desired by many..lux brand bugatti/.bently/porsche/lamborghini …and all its bread & butter brand skoda, seat, vw….yeap, the evil empire ie VAG are doin well
Still better than audi
First Honda, now Toyota, next would be Nissan overtaking Proton
Slowly Proton is selling sports cars that’s why the low volume sales.
Toyota and Honda designs are much better design than Mitsubishi design. The reason is because Toyota and Honda design looks very stylish, more elegant and nicer whereas Mitsubishi design looks very boring and look very outdated. Not only that, current Mitsubishi models doesn’t have more advanced safety features, Mitsubishi equipment also too outdated including engines and current Mitsubishi models is not even concept at all compare to current Toyota and current Honda model have more advanced safety features, more concept and better equipments and other features and engine is also updated. I recommend you to buy Toyota and Honda and sales will go up. Lastly, hopefully Mitsubishi sales will keep on dropping
truth is-mesidis down,,p1 up..as true malaYsians,,we should sokong whatever made in here..its more highly valueable kot,,u could see more p1 than p2 on the road now..not some ‘indah khabar dari rupa jer mesidis! ooo waiii!
The CHR design is simply ohsem
Highlight of the month. Well done UMWT. Next, will ETCM have a chance to bertaubat and change their sleepyheads?
Well done Audi up 50%!!!
Mesidis drop 20.3% LOL
Porsche sell more than Audi. LOL.
Audi fan boys syiok sendiri sahaja as it is already a dying brand in Malaysia.
Why is Audi such a low volume brand in Malaysia? Its cars are peers with Mercedes and BMW.
So where is that P1 salesman who said jepunis salesmen are in fear eh? I guess he is a messenger of ‘Fake News’, or more accurately ‘Fear News’
Fear because Boyue not even launched ady bash. Lol
I am not salesman, lol
Does this include grey imports?
nop oni official distribution
Proton shud tap into foreign grey imports market.
Who’s going to buy those cars over there when a saga would cost the same as a Mazda 2
What happen to Audi? It’s almost slipping away from the radar , behind Volvo & Lexus ??
Volvo give value of money, Lexus give peace of mind, Audi give crap
PT, Honda: Total Sales=24,180 but passenger vehicles=24,182?
24,182 is the correct figure.
I didn’t know nissan is still that popular
X-Trail for men and Almera for women.
Buy perodua, toyota & honda better. Tak payah pikir x payah pening kepala. Beli aje.
Bravo proton! Can achieve 250k unit end of this year!
Haaaaa…. agreed… 1 year proton sales still unable to catch 3 month perodua sales. P1 supporter will says wait for boyueapakejadah… a game changer bla bla.. same story for persona & saga.
Why are there no figures for Rolls-Royce, Bentley, Ferrari, Lamboghini, Citroën and DS?
They opt out from the group. Sales figures posted here are not mandatory for all brands.
Holy moly Hino managed to sell more trucks then Subaru selling passenger cars and Jaguar looks dead to me with 7 vehicles YTD. Guess that F Pace isn’t moving sales at all. Better luck with the E Pace me thinks. Also quite surprising to see Mercedes slowing down but with the upcoming A class launch they should be on track again.