Earlier, we confirmed you the prime ten best-selling automobiles in Malaysia for the 12 months to this point as much as October 2024, however stripping away the dominant nationwide automobiles has revealed some attention-grabbing takeaways. As beforehand talked about, the Toyota Vios is the non-national chief, with 2,775 items bought final month and 22,905 throughout the previous ten months.
The B-segment sedan holds a slim lead over its fierce rival, the Honda Metropolis, which racked up 2,320 gross sales in October and 22,757 YTD. That is regardless of the Toyota’s sluggish begin to the 12 months, possible because of a recall issued in January.
Notably, the Metropolis’s determine contains each the sedan and the hatchback, whereas the Yaris – ninth within the standings with 957 items bought in October and eight,453 items YTD – is taken into account separate from the Vios (and sure contains negligible gross sales of the GR Yaris). Put Toyota’s two B-segment choices collectively and they might far surpass the Metropolis, overtaking even the Perodua Ativa.
In third place sits the Toyota Hilux with 2,208 items bought in October (19,917 items YTD), adopted by the Honda HR-V with 1,550 items (16,664 items YTD). The latter has far outstripped the Toyota Corolla Cross, which languishes in sixth with gross sales of 1,140 items in October and 11,987 YTD.
Between the 2 SUVs is the ever-popular Toyota Alphard, though we must always level out that the overwhelming majority of registrations will possible be of reconditioned automobiles and subsequently not bought by UMW Toyota Motor. The identical can be true of the Harrier in sixteenth, registrations of which hit 511 items in October and 5,499 items YTD.
The opposite noteworthy automobile on the record is one other MPV, the Mitsubishi Xpander, which squeaked into the highest ten with October gross sales of 729 items (helped by the launch of the facelifted mannequin in September) and YTD gross sales of seven,187 items. As you possibly can see, the best-sellers record has been fully swept by Japanese manufacturers, proving they nonetheless maintain the higher hand.
You’d need to look all the way down to twelfth place to seek out the primary Chinese language automobile on the record, the Chery Omoda 5. This crossover bought properly within the first half of the 12 months, battling the Corolla Cross for a spot within the prime six, however gross sales fell dramatically within the wake of a snapped axle situation in April, which led to a recall. Sturdy competitors – together with from inside Chery’s secure itself – additionally contributed to October gross sales of simply 295 items, regardless of the still-healthy YTD determine of 6,784 items.
Talking of sturdy competitors, the opposite Chinese language entrant is the Chery Tiggo in twentieth, with October gross sales of 435 items and a YTD determine of three,808 items. The Highway Transport Division’s (JPJ) registration knowledge doesn’t state whether or not it’s the five-seater Tiggo 7 Professional or the seven-seater Tiggo 8 Professional, however our cash is on each being mixed right into a single entry. That might clarify the sudden bounce in gross sales in July (769 items), equivalent to the launch of the Tiggo 7 Professional the earlier month.
What of the Jaecoo J7 you may ask? JPJ registration knowledge reveals sturdy registrations of 810 items in August, 1,394 items in September and 1,579 items in October, which isn’t sufficient to shortly propel it into the 12 months to this point prime 20 due to the cumulative nature of the numbers, however nonetheless some very sturdy numbers with items registered 12 months to this point approaching the 4,000 mark very quickly.
Over 1,000 items a month are numbers that rival the Corolla Cross and the HR-V, however we’ll need to see if this sturdy momentum may be sustained alongside the remainder of the 12 months and 2025.
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