01 VOLUME
The pulse of the market
Two crashes, two booms. The 2009 financial crisis barely dented it; the 2020 lockdowns did. Then the SST holiday lit a fire — the market has set a new record every year since 2022.
02 MARKET SHARE
The brand wars
Proton entered the century on top. Perodua took the crown in 2006 and never gave it back — the two nationals plus Toyota and Honda account for four of every five cars ever registered.
03 LEADERBOARD
Top models, year by year
The Myvi has finished #1 in fifteen of the last twenty-one years. Pick a year and see who made the podium.
04 HEAD-TO-HEAD
Compare any models
Search the registry — every model that ever sold a single unit is in here. Stack up to five against each other, with each car’s real-world colour mix below.
05 ENERGY
The slow but steady decline of the fuel pump
Petrol still powers nine in ten new cars — but the curve has bent. EVs went from a rounding error to tens of thousands a year almost overnight.
Non-petrol share of new registrations
EV registrations by brand
EV leaderboard
06 PAINT
A nation in greyscale
Silver, white, grey, black — the achromatic four have swallowed the road. Spare a thought for green, a top colour in 2000, now nearly extinct.
07 BODY TYPES
The SUV ascendancy
The ordinary passenger car still rules, but its grip is loosening — SUVs and four-wheel-drives have tripled their share since the mid-2010s.
How JPJ classifies these: the registry has only five body categories. Motokar ("Passenger car" above) covers every conventional passenger car — sedans, hatchbacks, wagons and coupés are lumped together with no further breakdown. Motokar pelbagai utiliti is the MPV category, jip covers SUVs and 4x4s, and pick-ups and window vans round out the list.