It seems like a long time ago when we are able to freely go to the showrooms, but April was in fact less than a month ago. The latest sales figures from the Malaysian Automotive Association (MAA) show a relatively normal picture for the automotive industry, even if sales are lower than the month before.
A total of 57,912 vehicles found homes in April – 52,628 passenger vehicles and 5,284 commercial vehicles. That’s 9.34% less than March’s reported numbers of 63,878 units, which MAA attributed to the continuation of the conditional movement control order then and the global chip shortage that continues to hamper production.
As you’d expect, the figure is a far cry from the mere 153 vehicles (a 39,470% increase, in case you needed to know) registered during the same month last year, when the first movement control order was in full force. It’s no surprise, then, that the year-to-date figure of 179,096 units is up 86% from last year’s 95,876.
It’s going to come crashing down, however, with MAA expecting sales to dip this month due to the reinstatement of the stricter movement control order nationwide (with even stricter protocols rumoured to be on the horizon) and a shorter working month due to the Hard Raya holidays.
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Ini semua salah global chip shortages. Global car manufacturers fail to anticipate the shortage so they failed to plan. Let this be a lesson to global car makers.
Bcuz many places work from home, buy too much gadgets, use too much chips?
PKP3 and darurat make ppl save money. We kenot travel… Tengkiu gomen help us save money
I think it is a lesson to each human on this planet for abusing the nature. The nature has fight back to balance itself
Back to the golden days of mechanical.
Ini semua salah Covid19. MAlaysia has lots of ppl with money and loves new cars, but cannot go out visit showroom due to MCO, EMCO, CMCO, etc….
Without Paultan’s ACE, April sales will be 40% lower than March. Thanks Paultan.org
Due to lack of spare parts for Perodua, sales in April fell by 16.5%.
details by brand pls @PaulTan
That will come later, don’t worry.