With the start of a new year comes the end of an old one, and the automotive industry rounded off 2018 with a whimper than a bang, sales wise. According to data from the Malaysian Automotive Association (MAA), vehicle sales for December stood at 48,188 units, down 0.2% on the 48,282 registered in November.
This figure was also 12% lower than the same month the year before, during which 54,719 vehicles found homes. Even so, car companies managed to close the year on a high note with a total industry volume (TIV) of 598,714 units, a strong 3.83% increase on the 576,625 vehicles sold in 2017.
December was not a particularly strong month for Perodua, however, with the market leader posting a 12.8% decline in sales to 18,402 units, a drop of 2,708 units – though that wasn’t even remotely enough to trouble its status at the top. The closest competitor, Honda, mustered a 13% jump to 8,021 units, up 921 units.
Proton also enjoyed a fruitful month, recording an impressive 16.1% increase to 5,598 units, up from 4,820 in November – despite the national carmaker’s long-awaited X70 SUV only having been launched in the middle of the month. Meanwhile, Toyota sold 475 more vehicles than the month before, with 4,310 units to its name, while Nissan saw a 14.5% jump to 2,870 vehicles.
On the premium end, Mercedes-Benz sold 1,156 vehicles in December, up 12.4% and making it the eighth top-selling brand in Malaysia. Following closely behind is BMW with 1,017 units, registering a 5.8% drop. Elsewhere, it’s been a good month for Renault (+287.1% to 155 units), Isuzu (+55.7% to 1,221 units) and Subaru (+23% to 294 units).
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High time Toyota Japan ditch UMW.A dismal sales figure of only 43,446 cars for a whole year.Honda ,surpass 100,000 units inspite of QC issues.Perhaps, UMW is too relaxed ,thinking PNB will be ok with 38 percent owned Perodua, delivering the blockbuster profits.Tan Sri Zeti… please revamp UMW…it is performing badly.Surely,dividends will spiral down wards with this bad performance.
Toyota 65,551 > Proton 64,744
Well, proton doesnt sell commercial vehicle
This is the bigges tjoke ever. Even with Government orders, Proton sales can be so low. Just PDRM alone orders 8000 Protons from Proton per annum. Belum kira other departments lagi
For Toyota, drill down 1 layer. Differentiate between Passenger Cars & Commercial Vehicles and then do apple to apple comparison. Understanding Basic Marketing 101.
Ford sold only 84 passenger cars last year. So what?
Malaysia vehicle sales? What does it means? Basic marketing???
Both sales sinking and close shop soon. Compare for what?
their bread and butter which is vios stop production in oct 2018. lets see their performance for 2019 with new vios,camry,rush and yaris
Audi sales figure not available, because is nearly close shop d
2018 TIV
1. P2
2. Honda
3. Toyota
4. P1
So Proton finished in 4th place after Toyota Daihutsu Perodua, Honda and Toyota. Let’s pray that Proton will take the 5th place in 2019!!
Excellent! To all Proton haters, peeing in your pants already? Hahahahaha
Fistbump bro! Basher cries and screams r music to my ears. HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Dread it, run from it. Destiny still arrives.
Geely Empire’s might cannot be matched! When X50 comes, it will change everything. Fun isn’t something one considers when balancing the universe, but this, heheheh, does put a smile on my face.
Proton, Geely > all
There has been an awakening. 15,000 and more have felt it. But haters still think Jepunis and celups r da best. They dunno how to counter the massive sapot for P1 revival and X70, so they pile on bollocks and lies but more and more pipu have alredi awakened, yet basher still dreaming in his empty showroom.
Habisla john! In the end of 2019 Proton will never exceed P2 sales
Quantity may not exceed but can compare the sales turnover.
Proton achieved 64.7k units not 50k, basher plea se correct your statement in future.
Basher now malu to come here. Dunno how to taichi his bollocks about P1 sales. Previously he bollock about majority of P1 sales is from gov, but PT burst his fake news bubble when they repoted 97.5% of sales is from individual customers.
64.7k is something to be proud of?
Compared to 43,446? Yeah quite proud indeed. Why not?
Hahaha…Nissan better than Toyota, sales tell the truth like what they said.
Perodua sold 227k units. Not 207k..
Yes 64.3k units. By help government buy..
Congratulations to our proud national brand P2 for a record year and managing to come out on top at first place. I hope to buy a facelifted Myvi with better ASA 3.0, real DRLs, Apple Carplay/Android Auto, better bodykit/spoiler and uprated engine power.
Tahniah to Honda Malaysia for coming out second despite useless product quality and reliability ( I am looking at you Honda Accord with useless DRLs).
Congrats to UMWT for beating the china brand to 3rd place despite lousy specs and horrendous prices.
As for ETCM, just foldover and die because you don’t deserve your fifth place with uninspired outdated cars while facelifts/updates came years ago in other parts of the world. I hope Mazda or Subaru beats you this year.
Of the top 4, only Toyota has commercial sales. Take this out and Toyota performs no better than deadend brand ETCM Nissan. When they have nothing special about their junks, they only talk bollocks about their competitors. Lolz!
Macha, kasi chan lah. As lousy as Toyota passenger cars sales is, it is still +21,490 more than ETCM Nissan. Unless there is a coup in ETCM, then expect no improvement nor changes at ETCM for 2019.
Same same lor. Both brands continue to hard sell ancient outdated dinosar junks. When nobody buys their junks, their parttime P2 salesman basher comes here talking bollocks to bash other brands. If they dun change this guy, both brands will go down the drain real soon.
Gua tak paham your math
If you don’t know maths, then better stay in school & learn.
Work on your own education first. Ask your teacher the meaning of comprehension because you suck at it.
Take out government and sale to taxi, proton sales only 30k.
Where were you? Taxis long time ago no longer mandatory buy P1 anymore. Yet another bollocks just like ur bollocks that majority of sales is from Gov but ur fake news bubble was burst by PT when they repoted 97.5% of P1 sales is from individual customers.
As usual Honda Sales always showing off to Proton Sales and even Toyota Sales.
As well as Honda Sales also showing off to other carmakers too
The end of Toyota is near. X70 launched mid month alredi can see the uptick in sales. HAHAHAHAHAHA!
P1, Geely, Mesidis, VolvoCar, VolvoTrucks, Lotus > all
Be interesting to see how much market share can Proton take away from Honda this year 2019. X70 will eat into CRV & HRV sales. New X50 (Binyue) won’t make an impact yet as suspect Q4 launch or Q1/Q2 2020. Facelift Iris & Persona will be just to maintain survival of legacy products. Unless Proton has a surprise up their sleeves ….
Don’t think Toyota can recover back it’s passenger car sales, City > Vios, Civic > Altis, HRV > CHR, CRV > (no Toyota equivalent here). Only Camry is surviving but with new Accord coming ….
Aruz may not be as successful as everyone here predicted. Sure it’ll outsell HRV, CHR, HRV, X70 simply due to cheap pricing catering to the masses. But word of mouth will spread about it’s poor FC & this segment of car buyers are super sensitive to FC (& RV). Alza should be able to maintain sales until the replacement model arrives.
rip audi
Well done p2 sold over 200k vehicles. So basher basher here diam diam only lar. No matter how u bash p2, they still on top every year.
P2 sells the cheapest cars. What do you expect?
22,000 toyota hailaks sold in 2018. Hailak still king.
Such a shame, how bad the quality control of Honda, it able to gain second largest market share in Malaysia. For my opinion, it’s not to deserve for it.
Nowadays, the game changer was arrived-Proton X70. Hopefully, it will totally affect to our car market in Malaysia. Meaning that all those car makers have to offer a car with good value for money, wealthy specs, and greatest safety features. Especially for UMW Toyota, please to come out with greatest specs with reasonable price tag to our car consumers. For Example, the CHR is overpriced and ever offer low spec model that UMWT dare to selling to us while comparing with other countries.
Hi guys. I’m not Malaysian but quite curious to know. If Malaysia is to remove the protectionism. Will imported vehicle cost lower or the same or Proton X70 which is oso imported cost more expensive. Is it really fair if trying to compare the price of local and foreign cars?
Malaysia imposed heavy duty on imported cars , other countrues complained but Malaysia government .
In return Europe totally ban or imposed heavier tax for Palm oil export from Malaysia, Malaysia cry and said to take legal action against them
This is fair , if you do bad to ppl, ppl will do bad back to you. Karma in the making.
Drop those stupid high impirted car taxes then the other side may consider to negotiate to Malaysia to import our Palm oil.
High taxes only benefiting those Importers of used European scraps car from Europe into Malaysia rather than benefiting all Malaysians overall.
Chronise = make money by cheating or creating new law in Malaysia for their benefit only and nothing else .
If New Gov remove plotek, then P2 and NNCP konpem will jialat die. Meanwhile P1 tak kesah cuz Geely has big plans for them in the region.