Proton has announced its sales performance results for July, and the company is reporting that it sold 8,590 units last month, improving on its performance in June, in which it shifted 7,615 units. In terms of year-to-date numbers, the brand has sold 52,108 units as of July. Year-on-year, that’s a 46.5% increased over the 35,561 units managed in 2018.
Although official TIV figures from the MAA for the month haven’t been released yet, the national automaker confidently states that those numbers achieved are good enough to propel it into second place in the total sales chart, the first time it is back in that spot after a 40-month gap.
Proton CEO Li Chunrong is confident of the brand holding on to that position by the end of 2019. “Proton’s return to second place overall in the Malaysian automotive market has happened ahead of schedule. The growth in demand for our products show we are on track to meet our long term targets and for the rest of 2019, we intend to consolidate our position to finish the year ranked second for the first time in four years,” he said.
“With the launch of the updated 2019 Proton Saga set to take place shortly and other product introductions in the pipeline, the company is quietly confident of even better results in the future,” he added.
The company also provided some projections about how it was faring market share-wise – it estimates market share for the month to be 16.5% of the total industry volume (TIV), which it says should be around 51,960 units, while its overall market share for the year is expected to be around 15%.
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What a shame. We need to rely on a Mainland CEO to run local companies. Local abang abang cannot be relied on
No different than Ahkow run Mazda is dead, ahbeng run Toyota is dying, ahchong run Nissan is in the gutter. So what talkin macha?
I hope Mario can stop causing game over trouble in here such as commenting using multiple names, accusing others, disrespect Honda, Hyundai, Nissan, etc, and spamming like/dislike button.
With this game changing performance, I am highly optimistic that Proton will be able to become Malaysia #1 carmaker before 2020. Also, let’s not forget that there are also 3 game changing factors that have made Proton great again. A special thanks to Li Chunrong, Geely and China! Now with Proton becoming a game changing carmaker, Proton have the potential to go international and sell millions of car per annum.
It’s a pity that our potential Proton become a game over carmaker. Lucky China Geely bought our game over Proton and give us their game changing Boyue to rebadge and if not maybe 2 years ago Proton name will be a history with Proton cars entering museum.
Proton is becoming better and better especially with their much improved SC, quality and Proton X70. Other carmakers cars such as Nissan Xtrail, Honda CRV, Hyundai Palisade and Perodua Aruz have terrible quality, ugly design, ancient features and overpriced as well as other Nissan, Honda, Hyundai and Perodua other cars. If Proton bring in the X50, Proton will be number one and other carmakers especially Perodua, Japanese and Korean carmakers will “Close Shops”
Feel the euphoria, the patriotisme. We are proud.
What is there to be proud about? The X70 is a China Geely car. only the badge is Malaysian
Prouder than constantly rebadging Daihatsu and Toyota models for nearly 30 years. Old already and still cannot make own cars with own engines. So shameful to call it national car company.
Same goes to your perodua cars.
We are proud because many not originally from MALAYSIA but come to MALAYSIA and make it proud, just like X70. So we feel proud about the car. Got a problem with that?
Bravo proton!!! Keep the momentum going.
Just target 70-80k car sold per year for domestic sales. With ringgit so low they should focus for export
Doesn’t matter if a cat is brown or white. As long as it can catch mice, it’s a good cat. Onzz
Who cares if it uses China branded cars. The fact that Proton can now stand on its own is evident enough that the Malaysian auto industry is all set for full liberalisation.
Unless… Mahathir cooks up another one of his funny ideas like that Turkish supercar. Then, we’re back to square one.
Good luck!
Tahniah Tun
Tahniah Najib! With Tun mindset of arrogance,Proton wouldn’t smell success like this anymore!
17K unit x70 sold til July.
While aruz 13K sold til May. 4K different. So i wonder how many sales does aruz make til July?
Aruz will no doubt outsell X70, simply because of cheaper price. The target customers are also very different. Each vehicle has it’s pro and con.
Kah kah kah
Just like jeremy clarkson would say…. POWER!!!!!
Good job proton
Tempat kedua, pencapaian mantap
Panic button pressed! P2 meanwhile announced Arus delivery will now take only 1 month. What?
Naw bro! Ready stocks, ready stocks available! Mintak hari ni, esok boleh dapat!
Proton has become prosperous under Chinese ppl…. We should let alot of good Chinese company to take over ailing malay company
Also ailing Swedish companies, and ailing German companies. What does the skin colour matter in the company?
Chinese racist comment can go pangsai!
Malay don’t want local Chinese but prefer mainland Chinese.. local Chinese are crooked to the core,can’t be trusted and racist.Malay prefer local Chinese to be swapped for honest mainland Chinese.Go back tongsan,would you?
Predict vehicle sales data in July 2019:-
1) Perodua 18400 units
2) Proton 8700 units – (less than I expectation, fail)
3) Honda 7200 units
4) Toyota 5800 units
5) Nissan 2400 units
The funny thing is that with the X70 the Iriz became more popular. In Penang I see Iriz’ everywhere. How about other parts of Malaysia?
No iriz here is kl, none, here is more X70, Civic, BMW and Merc.. Even T is no more here, as they have gone southern.. KL oso got 1000+ bubba tea..
In Malacca the Persona and Iriz can be seen more after they facelifted the models. X70 is a normal sight at most traffic light. Its not that much but u can see them in the city.
This is all thanks to Jib that allow Geely bought Proton..
PH that once said Malaysia sold to China now bow to China
Good job Proton.
So let’s remove the car tax excise duties okay?
You should ask Perodua about that. They’re terrified by the mere mention of excise tax removal. Proton tak kecoh pun.
With the new updated Saga on sales lately, Honda can officially byebye from number 2 spot
P2 next!
Geely, P1, Mesidis, VolvoCar, Volvo Trucks, Lotus, L&C, Polestar, SMART > All
Dari bulan Januari hingga Julai tahun ini, Perodua telah berjaya menjual sebanyak 17,989 unit Aruz. Mengulas mengenai perkara ini, Presiden dan Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif Perodua, Datuk Zainal Abidin Ahmad berkata, untuk perbandingan, bulan Jun, Julai dan Ogos tahun lalu menyaksikan “cuti cukai” yang terhasil daripada keputusan penghapusan Cukai Barang dan Perkhidmatan atau GST oleh kerajaan.(quoted from funtasticko-dengan izin). shut your mouth!!!
Papa dh baca komen ini berulang kali namun masih tak dapat tafsirkan tujuan dan maksud komen ini.
Papa juga ada menggoogle apakah itu ‘Aruz’ dan mendapati bahawa Aruz adalah roti canai manakala X70 adalah pizza dengan extra topping pada harga roti canai.
Setelah papa menghubungi Laksamana Tarung di stesen Tapops barulah papa faham mengapa alien terpaksa membeli power sfera tiruan yg dihasilkan oleh Cetak Bot dan Rompak Bot…semua kerana alien tak mampu beli power sfera asli.
car under 60k still the main market in Malaysia, proton need to replace the campro with improved geely engine (no more timing belt please). Then Proton will take back 1st place in the future. In term of quality proton are better, but people prefer reliability and easy to maintain perodua by now.
Easy maintainance just go for 20 years old technology will do… less electronic features. FYI, timing belt is not outdated technology, some 200k mileage only change once, timing chain also cannot be last. Input new info and tech bro.
It is the product.
Congratulations, Proton.
Proton. It’s In the Game.
The Facelift legacy models are starting to pull their weight but going forward, it’s gonna be the X50 that will “turbo” Proton sales next year. This B Segment SUV is just about right timing, right price, right size, right segment.
Don’t expect much from legacy models after this. Proton is at the junction point where they still need to maintain legacy models but still not enough new replacement models in the pipeline. Sure, they’re being bold by initially concentration on the growing SUV segment (X70 & X50) but in the long run, they will need to decide which segment (A,B,C/sedan,SUV) which will be the cash cow. I foresee it’ll be split between the X50 B segment SUV and the new B segment sedan.
The MPV (Jia Ji) and if any, D segment sedan will be a niche segment. More for prestige Top Of The Line branding rather than money making cash cow.
Will all these be enough to overtake P2 in total sales??? Be tough to beat P2 simply because they have volume by selling cheaper cars. Simply put, 2 units X70 can get 3 units Aruz. Yes, not apple to apple comparison but that’s the local consumer thinking.
IMHO, Proton should stick to improving the product quality, selling value for money vehicles and let the product and services do the talking for you. Concentrate on profitability rather than total volume. Export more, your volume will come from that as our local consumption is not big. Let the Rakyat decide which brand meets their needs.
Btw, in the UK, (SAIC) MG eZS SUV recently sold 1,000 units in 2 weeks!!! Who says China car can’t sell in UK. Proton should look into exporting back to UK but choose a hybrid/EV as the market there is more mature/advanced.
Very well done by both Geely and Proton!!
If truly wants a local made car. We must first set everything to a fair stage. Let all have equal opportunity to study at University. Let all have equal opportunity to get job at any departments. Let all have equal opportunity to compete and in turn nurturing a brighter and stronger Malaysian. Then only our future engineers can build their own national car. No more these sort of relying on others to do our job. Then only we can talk about a true national car to be proud of.
Agreed. And when others cannot match up, let’s just brownface so we can meet quota of ahmads and muthus.
go look at GLCs like petronas and sime darby, roughly 95% of the employees are from a single race.
Does it matter? Petronas is one of the top performers even when during the fuel price crisis of 2016/7, Sime Darby is a big player in the plantation field at Indonesia and Indochina. They can perform regardless of skin colour.
Proton. pleae change ur engine campro and Punch CVT