Top 20 brands in July 2025 – Perodua, Proton, Toyota, Honda, Jaecoo top five; Tesla drops down to 18th

Top 20 brands in July 2025 – Perodua, Proton, Toyota, Honda, Jaecoo top five; Tesla drops down to 18th

The road transport department (JPJ) has released vehicle registration data for the month of July 2025, with Perodua unsurprisingly being at the top with 33,486 units. This marks a bounce back for the local carmaker, as June 2025 saw its lowest monthly registration this year with 22,328 units. With everything tallied up, Perodua’s year-to-date (YTD) total is just below the 200,000-unit mark at 199,674 units.

Positions two to five are unchanged from June 2025, with Proton coming in second (13,182 units; 82,953 YTD), Toyota in third (11,414 units; 68,784 YTD), Honda in fourth (5,117 units; 40,588 YTD) and Jaecoo in fifth (1,449 units; 10,624 YTD).

Coming in sixth is Chery with 1,194 units (6,185 YTD), followed by Mitsubishi in seventh with 1,166 units (7,890 YTD). Meanwhile, BYD dipped below the 1,000-unit mark with 870 units (6,270 YTD) to take eighth, which is ahead of both Mercedes-Benz (716 units; 5,330 YTD) in ninth and BMW (699 units; 4,372 YTD) in tenth.

Top 20 brands in July 2025 – Perodua, Proton, Toyota, Honda, Jaecoo top five; Tesla drops down to 18th

Outside the top 10, we find Mazda in 11th with 634 units (4,761 YTD), Lexus in 12th with its highest monthly registration this year at 622 units (3,400 YTD), Isuzu in 13th with 603 units (3,685 YTD) and Nissan in 14th with 541 units (3,828 YTD).

The remaining six brands are all non-Japanese, with Great Wall Motor in 15th with 511 units (2,735 YTD). In 16th place, Ford posted its best monthly result in July 2025 with 475 units to bring its YTD total up to 2,909 units.

Jetour, which appeared on the top 20 list in June 2025, continued to do the same in July 2025 and even improved by one position to take 17th with its 402 units (801 YTD). Below it is Tesla, which saw registrations drop by over half to 256 units (2,653 YTD) to bring its placing all the way down to 17th in July 2025 from 11th in June 2025. Completing the top 20 is Tesla in 19th with 221 units (1,505 YTD), while MG takes the final 20th spot with 206 units (1,352 YTD).

Top 20 brands in July 2025 – Perodua, Proton, Toyota, Honda, Jaecoo top five; Tesla drops down to 18th

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Gerard Lye

Originating from the corporate world with a background in finance and economics, Gerard's strong love for cars led him to take the plunge into the automotive media industry. It was only then did he realise that there are more things to a car than just horsepower count.

 

Comments

  • chery three companies total up three thousand plus sales, still cannot beat honda power of lane watch dream

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    • Autodriver on Aug 12, 2025 at 9:03 am

      Your statement reveal how stupid you are. Chery setup Malaysia official subsidiary on July 2023 while Honda established Malaysia official subsidiary on Nov 2000. Honda is almost 23 years earlier than Chery. Chery group now compare to Honda is 41%, by end of this year it could be around 50%. Honda Jan-Jul 2024 48,278 units while in 2025 same period is 40,588 units. The YOY sales drop about 16%. Honda Malaysia definitely feel the threat from Chery group. Btw Chery group is targeted where all car models launched are SUV only.

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  • FrankC on Aug 11, 2025 at 12:53 pm

    See GAC doesn’t make it into the list.. Nissan continues to drop down the ladder… tan chong motor marketing is a total failure

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  • Bapak on Aug 11, 2025 at 1:01 pm

    Looks like Chinese car got a long way to go in comparison to Toyota Honda

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    • forgot about proton on Aug 11, 2025 at 6:20 pm

      you forgot proton which is geely in disguise, and long ago was mostly rebadged mitsubishi.

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  • Tin Kosong on Aug 11, 2025 at 3:39 pm

    Looks like Honda loosing market share…

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  • alldisc on Aug 11, 2025 at 4:00 pm

    Chinese car makers already struggling with excess supply, massive discounts to move stocks and as an end result – existing car owners would suffere from high deprecation.

    Toyota 68k and Honda 40k? Hahaha.. good.luck Honda for 2025.

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    • Then why some of chinese carmakers sales are selling well than what you said, no matter whatever you hates

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    • Masakroti on Aug 11, 2025 at 11:00 pm

      Toyota got hailat. That truck alone already 10k, not to mention those fugly washing machine vans probably 10k also

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    • paanjang16 on Aug 12, 2025 at 10:09 am

      Most of the sales are from sub-100k sedan and hatchback cars which the China makes does not sell many of. The only sedan and sub-100k car from China is the MG5 but I think the numbers sold is so small it didn’t make the list.

      If Chery, GWM, MG has more affordable, sedan and hatchback offering then there will be more sales.

      Also Chery really ought to slow down on the different makes and branding as it dilutes their portfolio. Prefer they stick and build upon their Jaecoo branding.

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  • Wahaha on Aug 11, 2025 at 7:58 pm

    Where’s Hyundai? I thought the problem is sime darby?

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  • Tahniah chery, byd, jaecoo, gwm, mg and proton

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  • Sabri on Aug 12, 2025 at 5:33 am

    The hate for tesla by the eggpau is very obvious

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  • KotakPeti KotaBaru on Aug 12, 2025 at 1:30 pm

    Sad day for warga SjkC

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  • H kalah teruk on Aug 19, 2025 at 2:51 pm

    28k difference between T and H. H fan justified it by saying T sold more Hilux and van. You think so? 28k more Hilux and van? Just bite the bullet and admit defeat la.

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