Vehicle sales in the country climbed for a second month running as a result of the goods and services tax (GST) rate being set at 0% for three months until SST returns on September 1.
Consumers continued to shop for cars like it was going out of fashion, resulting in 68,465 units being sold in July, an increase of 6% or 3,963 units from the 64,502 units managed in June. The Malaysian Automotive Association (MAA) reported that July recorded the second highest monthly TIV ever achieved in the history of the local automotive industry, just a shade short of the 69,371 unit record set in December 2015.
Here’s a quick breakdown of how most brands peformed in July. Unlike June, in which just about everything had a green arrow, it was a case of more downs than ups on an individual brand basis, despite the increase in overall numbers.
Perodua was one of the rare brands in which sales dipped in June, but it snapped back in July with a 21.5% increase. Second-placed Honda’s numbers also went up by 12.2%, while Nissan also managed a 9.8% improvement. Of the top players, the highest gain made in July was by Proton, with a 31.2% increase from June.
The rest of the passenger car field saw sales dip in July – for many companies, the movement of ready stock would have surged in June, and with demand rapidly exceeding supply, inventory would have been severely curbed and nowhere close enough to allow the pace to be maintained. Mazda looked like one of these – despite managing 1,200 vehicles in July, sales dipped by 20.7% compared to June. Similarly, Toyota was down by 20.5%.
Sales of premium vehicles also reflected this pattern, and following the spike in June Mercedes (-10.7%), BMW (-14.4%), Volvo (-14.8%), Lexus (-46.4%) saw a dip in monthly numbers. Audi’s sales figures, meanwhile, were not available.
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“Of the top players, the highest gain made in July was by Proton, with a 31.2% increase from June.” Lolz!
Meanwhile, Toyota got -20% & Lexus got -46%. Double lolz!
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P1 macai still in delusion mode.
P1 sales 400% worse then P2. Lols.
Omg. What happen to Volvo and Peugeot? VW continue to perform at same category
What the heck!
Audi sales is totally dead in Malaysia which is trailing behind Lexus and Porsche sales. In return ,Lexus and Porsche sales are trailing behind Peugeot and Volvo sales already.
Top-15 passenger car brands:
1. Perodua**
2. Honda
3. Proton**
4. Toyota
5. Nissan
6. Mercedes
7. BMW
8. Mazda
9. Volkswagen
10. Subaru
11. Kia
12. Mitsubishi
13. Hyundai
14. Peugeot
15. Volvo
Proton will be stealing from Honda Sales because Honda Service quality and Customer Care are lousy. Even Honda Assembly models quality also very lousy. It means that Malaysian is cheated by Honda Malaysia
2018 Jan-July car sales: Toyota 40k units vs Proton 35k units…
Alamak apa sudah jadi Proton?? How to hit target 300k by yr 2020??
Toyota car sales only 28k. 40k total with commercial vehicles.
Got myself whole brand new Proton Saga 1.3Premium due to zero GST. Saved 1 year worth of car instalment. Many thanks to Pakatan gov, Lolzz!!
4th place is not considered top. Sports also give medal to 1st, 2nd and 3rd only. People don’t celebrate 4th place, what’s more caught using steroid.
Btw, others has exhausted all their stocks while Proton still have full yard of stocks.
Wow, people just saying Proton had the highest % increase in sales enough to trigger this unstable guy to talk about 4th place no medal lah, use steroid lah. Take a chill pill, dude.
No worries bro. He just worried why others sales r increase but his went down. Somemore if this continues to final month then Toyota whole year sales will go down compared to to others. Hes trembling with fear cuz once this is over, Boyue will next come it to gip P1 second wind in its sails(sales), so dun mind him.
Why should imoa worried? He is not an owner of any car company. He is just merely stating facts.
You have been saying the same thing since iriz, ertiga, perdana…. people won’t buy a China car, worst if it’s Proton made China car.
Obviously Toyota depends on commercial vehicles for sales number
john is the No 1 fake news spreader for past 3 years.
You mean like how you claimed that Ertiga was sold in Japan? We clearly know who the fake news purveyor is, and it’s definitely NOT john!
This is a car site. It is not a steroids site. You want to talk about steroids go to that site.
Here we talk about cars (& motors).
Toyota sales again beat Proton. Cannot bilip this. Toyota is so expensive also yet, Malaysians try hard to get a Toyota instead of a cheaper Proton
Honda sales again beat Toyota. Cannot bilip this. Honda is more expensive than Toyota also yet, Malaysians try hard to get a Honda instead of a cheaper Toyota.
Toyota includes commercial vehicles such as truck, lorry. Just count passenger cars only lah
That’s right! Purely on passenger car sales, it far trails Proton.
Oh.. Proton can do the same by selling more bicycle.
Commercial or not, those are vehicles and they are making money. Their sales are not only higher than Proton in Malaysia but also higher than all your Geely companies combined. Eat your heart out. Hahahaha
Wow despite selling 8k this no th, Proton still trails behind Perodua and Toyota and Honda proton used to be the 1st now it has became 4th. By next year it will become 5th.
P1 got no waterfall sales unlike Toyota. Lolz!
Of course Proton no waterfall. It already fell to the bottom.
Then the only way is to go up and up, like Superman!
So the worst is almost over.
From here on, the country will know the might of Geely! Dread it, run from it. Destiny still arrives!
Heard it with Mitsu lancer, Suzuki, Honda… sama je. Those big brands also cannot help you. What jack a China brand can do? This is not mobile phone or power bank that most in Shenzhen can do.
Bro by the time next year, you won’t never see Waterfall Sales for Toyota Sales, Proton Sales, Mazda Sales anymore
Honda placing number 2 yo… i told you, many malaysians dream own the car that powers your dream.
Dear Malaysian, there are reason why people shouldn’t buy Honda models in Malaysia. It is because Honda Malaysia is an association of manufacturers or suppliers with the purpose of maintaining prices at a high level and restricting competition. Moreover, Honda Service is very terrible as proven by JD Power Malaysia Customer Service Index (http://www.jdpower.com/business/press-releases/jd-power-2017-malaysia-customer-service-index-csi-study) – [take note that Proton and Perodua JD Power Malaysia Customer Service Index will improve in the next few years]. Furthermore, there are also having problem about faulty part for some Honda models. I am Civic owner, I just bought it last year. After one year, there is also having problem about my Civic. EPS (Electonic Power Steering) got problem. Also when I drive at the low speed, I heard that there is a crackling noise from Drive Shaft and also Relay on/off for more than 10 times in 1 second which gives problem. Therefore, as I went in to the Honda showroom, Honda people didn’t greet me. This shows that Honda Customer Care is very terrible as well. This is actually why Malaysian is cheated by Honda Malaysia
Ah Shaddap la toyota salesman. If you stop trolling here and start serving your potential customers maybe you stand a chance to beat proton. If no mega sales you would even lose to nissan
Ah Shaddap la Honda salesman. Do you know that it is the good truth of what he says. But I think you are actually bashing Toyota, Proton, Mazda, Mitsubishi and Nissan. And many people have detected that you are Honda Salesman
Yawn ZZZ. Boring lah. Why P2 always No1?!
How come Toyota beat P1 for the 2nd month??
Commercial vehicle save Toyota..look at table.. Toyota oni sell 6k car, p1 8k car last month
Yup. Basher conveniently ignored that. Remove the commercial vehicles and Toyota straight get 4th place medal.
Should ask MAA to exclude commercial vehicles from the list then Right!
Open ur eyes, its right there. Just see column for Passenger Vehicles.
Proton, Geely > all
What happen to Toyota?!
Their salesmen spent too much time crowing about their huge sales the month b4 and too much time come here to bash other brands, that they forgot to maintain the momentum. So it waterfalls while others increased.
UMW never beg bailouts from Malaysian Government. This is something Toyota owners is proud off. No tongkat
But Toyota got tongkat from Jepunis gov wor. Lolz!
Pretty sure a healthy % of Fortuners are sold to governmental agencies.
Audi 0? No sales at all?
Audi sales figures were not available to the MAA. No reasons were given.
Most probably Audi sales figures are bad to avoid disappointment for their fanboys
Should be trade secret, lol…
Audi shy to reveal sales figures ?
Audi-DRB Malaysia dealership taken over by Audi Singapore. So they are making some changes to the management team also. Maybe thats why.
Audi mega 4S showroom in Setia Alam sprucing up nicely, powered by Rimau International.
Just not building 4S showroom make sure Audi can sell and be accepted by Malaysian otherwise this sort of investment will generate very little return.. no matter how grand the showroom is
Everyone else went down as they don’t have the stock to sell. August sales data will be bleak.
Middle of the year months are always extra high, somemore with tax holiday. This is because the abang abang need to show they got ‘luxury’ Ponda and Toyotaik or other new car (esp. new jamban Poodua) when they balik kampung. This is to show the kampong folks they have done very well in the Bandar and their migration from kampung was worth it.
This is a well known fact. Ask any banker and they will tell you, 1 month before Raya or other festive season, sales are very high and the banker will tell you, it is to berlagak tak ingat dunia when going back to kampung.
Mark my words, after 3 – 6 month, as with the other years for the past few years, car repo guy also no time to rest as there will be lots of tarik balik and it will be sky high in this year or two.
Toyota better tha Proton. Good RV.
Gud Regret Value
Toyota and Proton are better than Honda. Good RV.
Cant bilip. Proton just can sold 35k unit oni. But Perodua make money sold 141k oredi..
Can’t believe that out of the top 5 brands, Toyota is the only one registering negative sales. Something must be seriously wrong in there.
Apa lagi Toyota mahu dengan Dinosaur Technology dijual dengan harga yang lebih tinggi berbanding dengan kenderaan jenama lain (yang lebih tinggi teknologi di jual dgn harga lebih murah dan berpatutan.
— Sudah pasti Waterfall Sales untuk jualan Toyota.
china took control of proton, next it will be perodua. we european are very concern about the chinese, koreans and japanese taking over our businesses. We are not concern about other Asian countries because they are too weak, backward and slow but these three we have to monitor carefully.
Proton 8 models sale 35k units plus gov buy. Perodua 4 models, sale 140k units with no gov buy… wth Proton?