The highway 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 having a look on the high 20 best-selling manufacturers, and it’s no shock who’s on high.
Sure, as has been the case for time immemorial, Perodua has taken a commanding lead with 31,382 automobiles registered in February, representing a sizeable 38.3% bounce over the earlier month. That’s virtually 3 times its nearest challenger, Proton, which offered simply 11,068 automobiles. 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 a minimum of 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, because of 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 signifies 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 embrace not simply business automobiles just like the Hilux but additionally a major quantity of gray market “recon” models (final 12 months, practically 21% of T-badged automobiles had been registered outdoors the model’s official gross sales community, versus simply over 4 per cent for Honda), that means that Honda has seemingly 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 presently 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 wonderful are the margins that comparatively sturdy 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 following 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 automobiles). 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 major issue for its dismal efficiency the earlier month. And that’s earlier than deliveries of the facelifted Mannequin Y, codenamed Mission Juniper, kick off subsequent month.
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