With plants and showrooms allowed to resume operations in mid-August, new car sales in Malaysia have picked up at a rapid pace over the past few months. The latest data from the Malaysian Automotive Association (MAA) showed 44,275 vehicles delivered in September 2021, which is a 153% increase from the month before it.
This is certainly encouraging news for the local automotive industry, and judging by the sales data breakdown by brand for September 2021, it’s good news for individual brands too. How good? Let’s dive into the numbers.
After regaining the top spot in August 2021, Perodua continued to remain in familiar territory by posting a delivery count of 14,160 units, or a 102.6% increase. This brings Perodua’s year-to-date total to 119,093 units, putting it well ahead of everyone else.
Meanwhile, Proton is up 273.8% and holds on to second place with 10,247 units delivered during the month and a YTD figure of 71,244 units. The final podium spot is occupied by Toyota, which sold 7,931 units (+219.4%) to increase its YTD total to 45,561 units.
Toyota’s lead over Honda has widened even further as a result, with the latter staying in fourth with 4,038 units (+187%) delivered during the month for a YTD total of 31,026 units. Also unchanged in terms of position is Mitsubishi in fifth with 1,854 units (+137.7%), with special mention going to the Triton that outsold the new Isuzu D-Max by nearly double, while coming close to the Toyota Hilux.
Other brands that managed a triple-digit percentage sales increase include Nissan with 1,286 units (+197%), while Volvo saw an unbelievable 626.8% increase to 298 units. As for the rest of brands, increases averaged around 100%, reflecting the industry’s upswing trend.
With just two months left in 2021, car companies will be pushing hard to achieve their individual sales target for the year. They’ll also want to start off on a strong foot come 2022, as the government’s decision to further extend the SST exemption period to June 30, 2022 will undoubtedly make consumers and sales personnel happy.
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Congratulation to Perodua and Proton.
Good Cars. More Fuel Saving, More Safe, More Advanced.
Always better than used car.
PH2 still all Malaysians pick compared to PN1.
Only 102% chosen P2 compared to massive winner 274% chosen P1. Terbaek!
The percentages only show the relative ratio of the changes in the sales between Aug & Sept, but in absolute figures, P2 still sold 3913 more units than P1 in Sept.
Tak payah pikir, tak payah pening, beli Proton saja.
Maka Proton sesuai utk yg tak berpikir & yg tak mampu beli ubat pening kepala?
Which is why going for Proton is a nobrainer. Everything else is unnecesary.
Yes, you do live up to your name as a source of natural fertilizer.
You know it so much, you must be it
@Lets See, thanks for confirming that PlainBS knows so much about plain BS. You must also be another right thinking Proton owner.
@Lets See, thanks for confirming that PlainBS knows a lot of plainBS. You must be a right thinking Proton owner.
The reasons why Proton is clear favorite for family guys. The perception of:
1.Good value for money
2.Solid Proton engineered product
3. Local smell/Malaysia’s pride
4. Easy to repair even bengkel bawah pokok pomen can do
5. Family legacy – father bought a Proton and grown up with a Proton constantly in the family
6. FC
7. Kedai potong got cheap & plenty quallitier part for my P1
8. Cheap roadtax
9. It is the clear our own Kegemaran Malaysia
10. Sturdy & tough HPF body, even if got whack by some idiot I know we will be safe inside
11. Ligthweight car
12. Got big boot, so as a man it is very versatile and easy to haul lots of things
13. Very reliable, constantly being refined and updated.
14. Proven Campro tech
15. Bullet prove
16. Internationally collaborating refined CVT
17. No start stop, save battery, save environment compared to other car
18. More planted drive on road, it won’t fly and do some acrobatic manouvres into longkang (unlike TheKing especially)
19. No teh tarik hook, dissuade using plastics. Saving the earth for future generations
20. Nice and comfy seats for long distance drives
21. Plenty of aftermarket part from abang to layang2
22. A few make up can unmistakabaly convert it R3 Limited Edition hnggg version
23. Proton superb ride & handling yet improved NVH
24. Nice meter display cluster, more higher end than some rm100k car
25. Last but not least, using timing belt maa, no worries on timing chain will snap. Just only need to spend rm200 on the average lifetime of this car and drive worryfree
Mantap Toyota, Proton and Perodua
They’re at the top because of anti-competition measures. There is literally nothing to be proud of, especially with Proton being ‘basically’ Geely-owned with the 51% being just a face-saving measure for Malaysians. Abolish or come up with a new fair duty policy for ALL car manufacturers, then see who’s on top.
What measures are you talking about. Toyota, Honda, Mazda, etc are all welcomed to priced their D segment Camry, Accord, M6, etc, closer to Proton X70 but they didnt? Why sell them at about 200k? Proton didnt force them to sell at 200k and yet you want blame Proton for their greed? Silly boy!
u r right. proton didn’t force them; it was the govt who forced them.
but x70 suv is not direct competition of d segment sedans.
Not right, Honda Hr-v Europe 1.5L only RM150k.
https://paultan.org/2021/10/12/2022-honda-hr-v-ehev-officially-launched-in-europe-1-5-litre-i-mmd-hybrid-131-ps-253-nm-from-rm151k/
The tax and duty structure in Europe is different because the Malaysian government policies have no jurisdiction there.
Why should Gomen force them when X70 has no bearing on their selling price? How does a RM123k car make them up to RM200k? Yr logic dun make sense. And these are not just the selling price here but in other asian countries, thailand, indonesia, brunei… did our Gomen force these prices there too? Xde logic lah
The Malaysian government applies different domestic taxes & duties on non-national makes to give price advantage to the national makes. So, the non-national makes had to price their products differently by passing the extra cost to the customers. Hasn’t this been going on since Proton started operation?
Proton haven’t been our national car brand since got sold to Geely. Why continue to blame Proton, and again our taxation has no bearing at Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines and yet obvious u r unaware that Japanese cars there priced about the same here despite not having any Proton influence, how do u explain that?
Geely is the smaller 49.9% shareholder of Proton and it is regarded as a strategic partner, not the new owner of the entire company. So, it is still regarded as the national car brand. If you say that Japanese cars in neighboring ASEAN countries are priced about the same as here, that is most likely due to AFTA, which only applies to cars made in the ASEAN region. However, before that ASEAN made Japanese brand car gets put on sale in the local showroom, the Malaysian govt imposes additional excise duties on it, which increases its price. As national brands, Proton & Perodua qualify for rebates from those excise duties, and thus can be priced cheaper.
Still haven’t answer the question why Japanese cars sold in other parts of Asean is the same price as Malaysia. Answer the question.
Already mentioned about how a country’s tax & duties structure affect the selling price of a new car. Other countries also have their own structures. If you can surf the Internet & post comments on this Web page, you should be able to research on this for answers.
They won’t sell also.
We already had Kia Picanto RM45k. Hyundai i10 RM50k, Pug208 RM65k, Kia Caren 2.0 RM60k.
But they greedy keep pushing price higher but not better value.
Dmax is priced too high and become not competitive enough…
Perodua the best. Good RV too..
If p2 the best why Gomen dun select them for their fleet cars instead going for toyota. Becuz of p2 down the drain all the way… no thanks to aloof color arrogance and severe low intelligence and foolishnes,
The govt can create as big as a budget it wants to buy or lease more luxurious vehicles like Vellfire, and so why should it be bothered with budget P2 models?
why the month is sep and aug?
Car is important for daily transport if u dun wanna pakai moto or bus/lrt. Choose model with affordable price, fuel saved, reliable, safety, low maintainance. Models with fancy no use specs tak payah lah..Only few choices available:
1. Myvi – Small boots, useless eco idle
2. Saga/Persona/Iriz – needs to change timing belt every 80k.
3. Vios/City – Quite expensive rm80~90k.
4. Axia – Tak safe kat highway
5. Aruz/Bezza – Boleh pakai tapi no power.
I hopes there are Bezza 1.5 or Myvi sedan.
so the conclusions: buy a 2nd hand vios/city at rm50k.
Used vios and used city is tin kosong.
Bezza more fuel saving, AEB
Persona also 6 airbags.
why korean cars like hyundai and kia selling is really small in malaysia but in indonesia korean cars market is quite big enough