The street transport division (JPJ) has furnished its registration knowledge for the month of February 2025, giving us a snapshot of how the automotive trade did final month. Right here, we’re looking on the prime 20 best-selling manufacturers, and it’s no shock who’s on prime.
Sure, as has been the case for time immemorial, Perodua has taken a commanding lead with 31,382 autos registered in February, representing a sizeable 38.3% bounce over the earlier month. That’s virtually thrice its nearest challenger, Proton, which offered simply 11,068 autos. Its 54,627-unit year-to-date determine paints an identical image, being way over double its fellow nationwide carmaker’s 20,756 models.
Proton does at the very least maintain a cushty hole to Toyota, of which 7,837 models had been registered final month, resulting in a YTD determine of 15,407 models. Surprisingly, the corporate holds a razor-thin margin over arch-rival Honda, which managed to register 7,228 models. Gross sales of the H model have rebounded from a low of three,628 models in January, due to Metropolis gross sales greater than doubling and the Civic getting a shot within the arm with the arrival of the recently-launched facelift.
The impact of a sluggish January implies that Honda’s YTD registrations of 10,866 models trails that of Toyota, however that hole isn’t anticipated to develop considerably. Keep in mind that Toyota’s figures embody not simply industrial autos just like the Hilux but additionally a big quantity of gray market “recon” models (final 12 months, practically 21% of T-badged vehicles had been registered exterior the model’s official gross sales community, versus simply over 4 per cent for Honda), that means that Honda has possible overtaken Toyota as the general non-national gross sales champion formally.
In a distant fifth sits Jaecoo, which overcame its earlier month’s droop, with registrations greater than doubling to 1,684 models. Within the course of it has overtaken Mitsubishi and Chery, the latter being notably noteworthy provided that Jaecoo at the moment sells simply two fashions (J7 and Omoda C9) in comparison with its mum or dad firm’s three.
Finishing the highest ten are three manufacturers inside 62 models of one another, these being Mazda (645 models, 1,352 YTD), BYD (634 models, 1,139 YTD) and BMW (583 models, 1,184 YTD). So high quality are the margins that comparatively robust January gross sales from Eleventh-placed Mercedes-Benz (546 models in February) meant it might maintain on to ninth within the YTD standings (1,298 models).
The subsequent 5 manufacturers had been in the identical positions as they had been in January (together with Lexus, and we all know an awesome majority of registrations every month are of recon vehicles). However by far the most important gainer was Tesla, gross sales of which rebounded from a low of simply 13 models in January to 443 models in February – proving that anti-Elon Musk sentiment was not a big issue for its dismal efficiency the earlier month. And that’s earlier than deliveries of the facelifted Mannequin Y, codenamed Challenge Juniper, kick off subsequent month.
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