The first six months of 2021 has been good for Geely Philippines, as local distributor Sojitz G Auto Philippines (SGAP) reported a total of 2,426 units sold. This represents a 342% increase compared to the same period last year, and is good enough to put the brand in ninth place in terms of total industry sales in the country.
The H1 2021 sales figure surpasses the 2,158 units that the company sold for the whole of 2020, although we have to keep in mind that the pandemic did leave quite a mark on vehicle sales then. In fact, the company said previously that 24% of total 2020 sales were only generated last December.
Once again, the Coolray (also known as the Binyue or Proton X50) is Geely Philippines’ most popular model, with 1,312 units sold in H1 2021, or 153% more compared to the 518 units recorded in H1 2020. The model also remained the best-selling model in the subcompact 4×2 SUV segment for a sixth straight month.
The Coolray is just as popular in Russia, as it was the top-selling model in the country in July 2021 with 1,387 units recorded. This is more than half of the number of units sold in the month, with the Atlas (also known as the Azkarra, Boyue or X70) coming in second (959 units) and the Tugella (also known as the Xingyue) in third (91 units).
In July 2021, Geely Russia managed to hand over 2,502 units to customers, representing a 21% increase from the month before. Widening the timeline focus, the company sold a total of 11,873 units from January to July this year, which is 103% more than the same period in 2020.
On a much larger scale, Geely Automobile Holding reported last month that a total of 99,275 units were sold in July 2021, with SUVs making up the majority (60,738 units), followed by sedans (37,829 units) and MPVs (708 units).
Meanwhile, from January to July, 729,512 units (this includes Lynk & Co-branded vehicles) were delivered, representing an increase of approximately 15% from the same period last year, and achieving 48% of the full year sales volume target of 1.53 million units this year.
The automotive division within Zhejiang Geely Holding (ZGH) consists of several brands, with Proton being one of them. Our national carmaker also performed well during the first six months of 2021, with a 52% year-on-year increase to 56,352 units.
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Tahniah! All brands going up.
Geely, P1, Mesidis, Volvo > all
Geely chinas ekselen competence is no doubt.
More chinese cars should come to Malaysia, e.g
WEY, Haval, Xpeng, Nio
So many better Chinese Car, but no service center won’t work
Now we can clearly see whether foreign car markets really adore china make cars. Answer is not. If chinese car makers know their cars sre good they already enter UK and sells in great numbers.
Many international businesses from First World democracies are in Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar not becus they loved those military regimes but becus there is potential to make more money. It is simply money that drives company decisions and for a well saturated car market in UK, there is lesser margins to make profits. Plus with the upheaval of Brexit, even Honda has exited production there. Does it indicates the car market there no longer adores Honda?
Clearly people still would not buy if it has a chinese badge.
2,436 units sold in the Philippines and 11,873 units sold in russia for the 1st half of 2021 is small compared to the market size.
total passenger car sales in Philippines in the 1st half of the year is 42,406 units.
If geely had entered malaysian market under its own badge, it would have not sold too. Malaysians buy the cars because of the Proton badge.
For Geely to enter markets such as Thailand, Indonesia, Australia, UK; it would be better for the cars to have a Proton badge rather than a Geely badge.
Maresia buys Geely because it offers the biggest CP value to the consumers, not because it is Proton badge.
Let we not all forget how ‘wonderful’ products that Proton itself came out with … remember Juara? Savvy and the BMW of Asia Wajah?
Geely had only started in those markets, naturally the acceptance is lower and thus sales figures. One more critical fact is unlike previous China entries, these Geely cars are not your cheap bargain basement offerings but spec-wise up there fighting with Japanese makes. Geely starts up at a higher level and it will take time to grow marketshare but grow it will with continuous solidly good products. Like Xiaomi & Huawei phone strategy they market at higher levels, quite dissimilar to cheaper China brands ie Oppo, Redmi, Vivo.
Geely sales in Duterte land is doing quite well,meaning they didnt lock down the auto industry.
Meanwhile,back in Bolehland,I have a feeling the auto sector lockdown is just so happened it fell into the non essential sector which will take another trip to Mars to materialise.
The worst is some officials are thinking of “opening up the pasar malams”. Some Sales Advisors are thinking of jumping ship to be pasar malam traders if this materialise.Now we are in a serious health crisis where 10000 lives are gone.It is like having 200 people dying of serious dengue each passing day.
There is light at the end of the tunnel ,unfortunately ,it is a speeding bullet train at night,in the opposite direction,but on the same track.
So stop complaining.
Either open up, and see cases going out of control or staged opening and keeping infections under control. You can’t have your cake and eat it. No one does, not USA with daily 100k or UK with 50k new infections after reopening.
So proton contributed 7.7% from the total?