The road transport department (JPJ) has released the latest vehicle registration data for the year ended 2024, so let’s take a look at the top 20 best-selling car brands in Malaysia.
As it has been for a number of years, Perodua came out on top with total registrations hitting 358,100 units. Perusahaan Otomobil Kedua started the year with a commanding lead in January with 29,680 units and kept the momentum going over the next 11 months with average monthly sales of about 29,000 units.
In second place is Proton with 147,587 units registered in 2024 based on JPJ data. Over the course of the year, Proton sold over 12,000 units in most months, with exceptions being April, June, September and November where the figures hovered around the 10,000- and 11,000-unit mark.
Rounding off the podium and the third brand to cross the 100,000-unit mark is Toyota with 127,202 units, while in fourth place is Honda with 85,273 units. Keep in mind that Toyota also sells the Hilux, which saw 26,738 units registered, so if comparing purely based on passenger vehicles, the gulf between the two is smaller. Moving on, it’s clear the top four brands are well ahead of the others listed which did not crack the 20,000-unit mark.
Chery managed to place itself above Japanese brands Mitsubishi (16,188 units) and Mazda (14,790 units) with 19,687 registrations. Meanwhile, Mercedes-Benz edged out BMW to become the best-selling premium car brand here with 11,876 units against 10,259 units.
Completing the top 10 is BYD, a brand that currently only sells electric vehicles (EVs) in Malaysia. While not able to cross 10,000 units, the 8,570 registrations recorded placed the Chinese brand above Nissan (7,316 units), Isuzu (6,847 units) and even Lexus (6,431 units).
Progressing further down the list, Ford, which only sells two models – the Ranger and Everest – slotted into 14th place with 6,202 units. Another brand that only sells two models is Tesla in 15th place with 5,137 units.
Below the 3,000-unit mark and in 16th place is Porsche with 2,704 units, which is followed by MINI (2,272 units) and Great Wall Motor (2,128 units). Meanwhile, the two brands that didn’t cross the 2,000-unit mark are Volvo (1,964 units) and Volkswagen (1,822 units) in 19th and 20th place respectively.
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Gap between T and H is unbelievable. Where are you oh bangsa H? Tak support ke?
Bangsa H buy from 2nd hand market boss…
If buy new then wont have money to put make up till become better than Type R.
Those in the stats are all graduates or nurses or teachers…all with proper education background and developed mind.
Bangsa H now afraid of steel belt putus snydrome
Toyota beat Honda by about 15000 units for non commercial vehicles.
Roughly say 1200 plus passenger vehicles every month,Honda kalah.
One of the reason is the suspect quality of the steering rack,which is not cheap during replacement.
No matter how one bash Toyota,one cannot deny Toyota quality is a notch up.
so sad to see even honda give kaw2 rebate year end sale still can not achieve 100k unit sold. honda glorious day was during honda city gm6, 1st gen hrv and civic ketam. was in the spot 1st non national car. after that, all gone. no new sales, people still buy all those model in used car. city lose to vios, city hb lose to yaris, hrv lose to cross, accord lose to camry, and no model like hilux. not forget, dont have bsm.
Guess there is no coming back from that infamous DSG problems and once your brand has been shunt what did you do portray yourself instead of Das Auto (the people’s car) to we only sell expensive premium now onawards. Surprisingly Audi didn’t even make the list guess VW is eating their share too.
once they dreamt to produce 80u/day in Pekan assembly plant which is approximately 20,000 a year
Volkswagen dead because they dont produce model like Polo, Vento, and Beetle anymore. They should reintroduce below RM 80k model
Hyundai and Kia don’t even make it into the list. I wonder what happen. Maybe because Hyundai stop selling cheaper car which is Elantra. And they only sell RM200k++ car (santa fe, ionic) which is crazy for malaysians to accept
in malaysia, PRICING rules. whoever makes the cheaper car (that isnt rubbish) will command the top sales. So local brands taking the top spots is not suprising. Remove the “protection” and sell foreign brands at their actual price and you’d see P1 and P2 lose their top spots.
3 question from me where is hyundai where is kia where is peugeot they all are gone like that i mean korean cars had that bad reputation in malaysian market and where is peugeot they start CKD lot of model but they also not make it
What may happen to Tan Chong after Honda takes over Nissan in Japan?
Congrats to Toyota for best non national car maker, by far. And also top sales for both passenger car and commercial. New Vios did a good job there. Lets wait for Yaris replacement soon, too long in the tooth.