We called the sales data breakdown by brand in previous months collector’s items, because they were unseen before. Well, here’s another one for the album. “August 2021 Malaysian vehicle sales up by 147%” may seem a bit tame in the crazy Covid context, but don’t judge this story by its headline.
In July, Proton made a one-off appearance at the top of the table, ahead of Toyota and Mitsubishi, with the latter registering more cars than perennial leader Perodua (fourth) and defending non-national leader Honda (fifth). Those who did well had remaining stock; conversely, those who didn’t fare well had no cars to sell as factories were forced to close.
With plants and showrooms allowed to resume operations in mid-August, sales numbers have shot up fast due to the backlog. Cars are finally being made and registered, giving both car companies and customers a sigh of relief. Is the worst over for the Malaysian car industry? Seems so for the near future.
After lending its top spot to Proton for a month, Perodua is back with sales of nearly 7k units in August, a 966.9% increase. That’s not a typo, and P2 has passed the 100k mark in the process (year-to-date 104,933 units). Earlier this month, Perodua announced a revised 2021 sales target of 214,000 units, 10.8% less than the original 240k. Proton is up 44% and lies second in both August (2,741) and YTD (60,997) figures.
Other big jumpers are Toyota (+72.2%), Honda (+140.5%), Mazda (+251.5%), Nissan (+118.7%), Volkswagen (+108.0%) and wait for it, Porsche with +258.1%. Once again, this is all down to stock being available again, and how much of it one has – we can’t read too much into it. Curiously, Toyota sold fewer commercial vehicles in August versus July. Same for Isuzu, which only sells CVs.
Here’s a YTD update on the individual battles that we’ve been following. Toyota’s lead over Honda has widened and is now above 10k. Barring any unforeseen incidents, the big T would surely achieve its stated mission of regaining the No.1 non-national spot from Honda come year end.
The surprise package of 2021 so far has been Mitsubishi, which is sitting comfortably in fifth and pulling away from Nissan and Mazda in the “best of the rest” race after Perodua, Proton, Toyota and Honda. Boosted by a wingman in the Xpander seven-seater, the Triton brand has been setting personal bests, and is on track for its strongest year.
Speaking of Nissan and Mazda, the Yokohama carmaker has traditionally been in fifth and ahead of its Hiroshima-based compatriot. But Nissan was merely eighth in August sales – it’s still sixth in YTD figures, but the lead over Mazda is now razor thin at 86 units (from 356 units in July).
With four more months of SST exemption to go, there’s still time for a late push. For the state of affairs at half time, check out our 1H 2021 report here.
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No AEB, sales drop is a natural thing in 2021.
The industry growth by 147%, how did your math suck so much to say there is a sales drop.
Look at all brands, all sales are falling. Look at perodua, proton, toyota, isuzu, nissan, sales are going to fall soon while honda sales are steady. Next year, all brands will going bankrupt and will be 0 sales.
Porsche can sell 111 cars?
What M40 to B40?
nah, M40 also can’t afford new Porsche, only those T20 can buy.
Bro, those are elit n kayangan group who does not effect by pendemic! Haha… you imagine sprm sr officials owed a milllion dollar buildings n super car? Who and what else we can believe in our system today?? Advise me please!
Believe that aspiring politicians offering sweet promises is akin to Greeks bearing gift horse. Never let them in. Never repeat May 2018.
What about Audi?
LoL. Hidup segan mati tak mahu brand.
Apa jadi proton? Perdua always taking the lead. Bravo
Demise of audi. Followed soon by eventual demise of the current failed and incompetent Gomen.. Huge kabinet 70 minister but zero kpi… Ilek zilch Pffttt
Audi is not dead yo! They are just not reporting their sales here. Saw many new Q3s and A5s on the road.
Isuzu D-Max is leading the pickup trucks…good job
Wow..Toyota have overtaken Honda by 656 units in August,if we leave out commercial vehicles.
4 more months to go till Christmas,lets see if Honda Malaysia can pick up speed.
Malaysia economy dah mantap! This is due to brilliant steering of the country thru 18 months of chaotic pandemic terror.
Malaysia mantap!
Proton mantap!
Caring gomen mantap!
Proton mantap? More like Geely celup did the work.
I wish our NGOs here got the balls to sue Perodua and force them to stop selling old and outdated ICE cars by 2030 too. Instead they got well paid to run down our glorious country.
Typical losers yang berkecimpung dalam perniagaan. They are too weak to compete but hope others, in this case the NGO to do dirty work for them. Just like how a coffee company being accused of being haram every other month.
Kopi luwak most sort after and most expensive per kilo, is made by halal countries
Do yourself la, haha
This is totally outrageous with that 967% whopping sales by Perodua (considering the backlog as well), means that there are more demands in waiting still haven’t got their neither Bezza nor Ativa suspectedly for almost 6 to 8 months.
Anyway, congratulations to those in that 967% who have got their car finally after a long waiting. For those who is in dire situation waiting for their Perodua to arrive, I felt sorry for them.
Toyota and Honda should put their game up before the end of the year 2021 as some potential buyers really need a better offer to buff up their dream to have a suitable car for them, by bringing in some of the variants that is not made available in Malaysia.
For Proton, we faced a mixed reactions regarding their B-segment sedan and hatchback, please repent, dear Proton. Please stop using that ancient 2014 Campro, use the new powertrain that is co-developed by the Volvo and Geely.
So is this a case of daihatsu failure (for not supplying enough parts) or perodua failure (for not making fast enough) or the failure of both?
P1 still manage to add 200 new parts into Persona/Iriz eventho on a miniscule limited budget, thus we won’t get all out TGDi powertrain on Persona/Iriz plus radar base driving assist. Why don’t you interview their engineers asking for clarification, funding issue and future tophat design on CMA platform instead of venting your ‘mixed reaction’ here.
Datuk Nick,wah so serious meh,Proton needs to repent?
DRB has already repented by allowing Geely to come in.
If not,the Campro engine will be on display at Muzium Negara for being Jurassicly bankrupt.
Anyway,whats holding back Dr.Li from bringing the Geely/Volvo engines?
Perhaps Paultan and Co can do a write up on this.
Volvo and Geely engine are not good too. Better avoid that.
Many Toyota and Honda salesman gonna migrate to P2 becoz poor sales and poor commission.
Alamak…..makin lama lah tunggu perodua baru….huhu
Congratulations to Perodua and Proton
King and Queen, we support
bravo Toyota
Ashamed:-
Yes, force workers to secretly go to work during lockdown. Sales Advisors to go to showrooms. Disgusting work ethics. They do not care for their workers lives.
Will never support Perodua after this.
I bought my Perodua without having to go meet the sales person at all or go to the showrooms. All was done through calls and WhatsApp so I don’t see a problem with the work ethics.
How did you buy car without signing the S&P and loan agreement bro? Ni P2 SA nak tipu pun agak2 la bro.
Buy now n ask for moratorium later.
Nissan continue to lag. A result of poor model range offering from tcm. Over reliant on xtrail and almera. A bit of navara.. A case with the old proton… Hopefully more new offering will come by
perodua managed to registered in last week of aug for 6k plus when most automotive sector is allowed to resume on 23rd aug… bravo perodua…hopefully september will be more awesome…
Mercedes didn’t ship even a unit year to date?
Some Rakyat are getting richer and richer. They just stay at home with 100% paid salary. Don’t know what to do with a lot of money, so they buy cars.
Some Rakyat are getting poorer and poorer, shops are not allowed to open, factory closed, airlines are grounded, people live with jobless, some commit self suicide. Some selling away their only cars and houses just to continue to live and pay loans.
God gave us Covid 19 to open our eyes to see what the world really is.
Why mercedes is zero in YTD?