Proton’s October 2023 sales report has come in. The national carmaker sold 12,772 units last month, bringing its total year to date figure to 129,604 units. With two full months yet to go, this leaves Proton well on course to beat last year’s full tally of 141,432 units, and to achieve its fifth successive year of sales growth by the end of 2023.
Sales grew by 4.4% compared to September 2023, and Proton estimates it holds an overall market share of 20.1% in Malaysia. The latter is a slight increase over the 19.6% it commanded in 2022.
On to individual units, Proton’s best-seller continues to be the Saga with 6,322 units sold in October, and 57,806 units YTD (already more than the 2022 total). It sits second to the Perodua Bezza in the A-segment sedan race for the month. The Persona sold 2,041 units last month, finishing third behind fellow B-segment sedans, the Toyota Vios and Honda City.
A close third is the X50 with 2,021 units sold in the month, and 26,981 units so far this year. The B-segment SUV maintains its class lead over the Ativa and HR-V, while its total sales tally has exceeded 100,000 units since its launch 36 months ago. The latter makes it officially the fastest-selling SUV model in Malaysian history.
Still holding up since its 2018 launch is the X70 with 927 units sold in October (second in class behind the CR-V), and 9,705 units for the year. The Iriz is up next with 589 units, fourth in class behind the Myvi, Yaris and City Hatchback. A total of 6,633 units of the Iriz have been delivered this year.
Proton’s latest model, the X90, had another slow month, with just 479 units sold in the month and 3,914 units total since its launch in May. That’s still enough to sit at the top of its class above the Chery Tiggo 8 Pro, and Proton says it expects an uptick in demand for the model in the coming months as orders come in from export markets.
Last on the list is the long-serving Exora with 393 units sold in October, and 3,910 units so far this year. The C-segment MPV champ (it’s the only one left standing, really) finally bows out as Proton has confirmed that its 14-year production run has come to an end, with a total tally of 196,583 units. Amazingly, demand for the Exora is still positive, selling 11.5% more than last year.
“Heading in to the final two months of 2023, we are optimistic of exceeding our targets as we prepare to introduce more new models to position the company for a great start to 2024,” said Roslan Abdullah, Proton deputy CEO. The two new models refer to the S70 sedan and the smart #1 EV, both slated for November launches.
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2024 we will see all new Proton Satria GTi equipped with 1.5L TGDi powertrain 184PSand 300Nm of torque. Price ard 90k
Highly unlikely as Proton are currently doing the rebadge king so likely next year we will finally get the X70 hybrid and spell the death to 1.8L TGDi entirely or we may get the Geely GX3 Pro (similar to Honda WR-V) as no surprised we follow exactly Geely Philippines offering.
On the new line-up of cars we may get the new model as Proton promised but that could be delayed to use the future Geely-Renault engine.
The only hot selling missing link now is compact class single cab double cab pick-up truck
Look at the sales figures of Exora and X90. They’re about the same. Difference is that the Exora is a consistent seller for over a decade and sales start to falter in the past few years. X90 however won’t be ramping up anytime soon.
Should have upgraded the aging but trusty Exora to make it into an Alza-fighter rather than shoving the X90 down the throats of those who want a 3-row Proton vehicle
Proton stopped trying to fight Alza bcos they cannot please the b40 buyers. For the two most affordable mpv in Malaysia: you can pick one, smaller b-seg alza with better FC, or bigger c-seg exora where higher FC is expected. When b40 already buy cheapest mpv, of cos they also looking for FC, too bad for exora. So ppl buy smaller alza and put stupid roof racks or roof boxes on top.
now measure percentage of cars stuck on workshop
The sales of the X90 is pathetically slow,averaging 652 units monthly.
If P1 has 400 dealers,this works out to not even 2 units of X90 sales per month per dealer.
Perhaps the “wiring fire ” issue has dampened sales,causing some ardent fanboys to kiv purchase.
It will be good if P1 can video share the warranty repairs due to faulty wiring issues,to assure those waiting fanboys.
this is the typical didnt read blind basher. already tabled that x90 is highest volume D-seg suv, means other models sold even less. what do you want? buyers for such big car to magically appear?
So,by Christmas…P1 sales 160k units
Perodua still speeding at full throttle to hit 300k units.
We can see,at this rate P2 sales almost double that of P1.
It will take at least 5 years for P1 to catch up with P2.
Overall,Daihatsu/Toyota tech still the preferred choice of Msians.
Only 129604? How to achieve 300000 for 2023?
https://paultan.org/2018/02/08/proton-looking-to-sell-400000-cars-per-year-by-2027-aiming-for-30-market-share-in-malaysia-10-in-asean/
Hopefully upcoming S70 will defeat City & Vios eventually!