The road transport department (JPJ) has furnished its registration data for the month of February 2025, giving us a snapshot of how the automotive industry did last month. Here, we’re taking a look at the top 20 best-selling brands, and it’s no surprise who’s on top.
Yes, as has been the case for time immemorial, Perodua has taken a commanding lead with 31,382 vehicles registered in February, representing a sizeable 38.3% jump over the previous month. That’s almost three times its nearest challenger, Proton, which sold just 11,068 vehicles. Its 54,627-unit year-to-date figure paints a similar picture, being far more than double its fellow national carmaker’s 20,756 units.
Proton does at least hold a comfortable gap to Toyota, of which 7,837 units were registered last month, leading to a YTD figure of 15,407 units. Surprisingly, the company holds a razor-thin margin over arch-rival Honda, which managed to register 7,228 units. Sales of the H brand have rebounded from a low of 3,628 units in January, thanks to City sales more than doubling and the Civic getting a shot in the arm with the arrival of the recently-launched facelift.
The effect of a slow January means that Honda’s YTD registrations of 10,866 units trails that of Toyota, but that gap isn’t expected to grow significantly. Bear in mind that Toyota’s figures include not just commercial vehicles like the Hilux but also a significant amount of grey market “recon” units (last year, nearly 21% of T-badged cars were registered outside the brand’s official sales network, versus just over four per cent for Honda), meaning that Honda has likely overtaken Toyota as the overall non-national sales champion officially.
In a distant fifth sits Jaecoo, which overcame its previous month’s slump, with registrations more than doubling to 1,684 units. In the process it has overtaken Mitsubishi and Chery, the latter being particularly noteworthy given that Jaecoo currently sells just two models (J7 and Omoda C9) compared to its parent company’s three.
Completing the top ten are three brands within 62 units of each other, these being Mazda (645 units, 1,352 YTD), BYD (634 units, 1,139 YTD) and BMW (583 units, 1,184 YTD). So fine are the margins that comparatively strong January sales from 11th-placed Mercedes-Benz (546 units in February) meant it could hold on to ninth in the YTD standings (1,298 units).
The next five brands were in the same positions as they were in January (including Lexus, and we know an overwhelming majority of registrations each month are of recon cars). But by far the biggest gainer was Tesla, sales of which rebounded from a low of just 13 units in January to 443 units in February – proving that anti-Elon Musk sentiment was not a significant factor for its dismal performance the previous month. And that’s before deliveries of the facelifted Model Y, codenamed Project Juniper, kick off next month.
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Where is kia and hyundai are they really dead in malaysian market while hyundai and kia success in vietnam, singapore even indonesia and philipines
Korea new car price hike RM50k as compared to 6 years ago, but 2nd value still very very low
I don’t see volkswagen and peugeot do anyone see both this brand this day in road of kl
So P2 will sell 400K-500K car this year?
still got people want to buy Nissan?
At least malaysian still buy nissan if you want to know one thing nissan in indonesia is totally dead no one buy nissan everyone boycotts nissan expensive price parts and really minimum dealership and their also no new product at all
Basically sales are for the most cheapest basic brand P2 and it indicates that people are having to buy downwards; people previously going for Toyotas have downgrade to P2. This is bad sign of our economy and how this Govt is fumbling it in the face of Trump upheavals.
Like Biden’s poor show got booted we need to kick out this PH Govt too!
Why?..you want to ride camel when PN govern?
Yes agree, only a handful of people know what the F is going on with our country
Protong averaging 10,000 units monthly..by year end…120,000 unit sales.
DRB already in the red now…so by Christmas..P1 is losing money again.
P1 has to surpass the 150,000 unit sales mark to make some decent profits.
Going by normal projections with so many China ICE and EVs vying for a smaller pie..P1 will bleed further.
There will come a time Geely has enough,will sign the divorce papers.
Now Geely is busy rushing their export hubs in Thailand and Indonesia.Proton is relegated to “concubine” status now.
Geely won’t sell proton because they got profits after proton rebrand geely cars
Well Jaecoo is not Cheery scandal owh wait.
Terbaik Jaecoo dan Cheryp
Dear Honda,
I could have been your customer if only your HR-V has 360 camera. Also, I need a spare tyre too. BTW, what’s the deal with the protruding muffler for the turbo. It’s a waste of the ground clearance.
Yesterday proton just shiocked sendiri about being the segment leader.
But S70 (the self-claimed C-segment) is behind Civic, and also even behind City and Vios.
X70 on the other hand lost to both CRV and Jaecoo which are above the price range.
X50 is outdated by today standard, beaten by HRV. China havent launch a B-SUV yet.
Proton product team should wake up. Mediocre facelift and running won’t work anywhere when market has so much options now.
So what car should i buy since every crap seems crap
Wait few years later if jaecoo or chery enter market under rm80k then Perodua and Proton will be defeated 1 day.
they will not allow this to happen unless syed mohktar has a stake in the company
Proton tu tukar Geely lah. Or splits 2 models. Proton for Saga Persona Iriz, Geely for X series.
Agree
Car for low class people top the list because I am high class drive only MB and BMW