We’re wanting on the top-selling automobiles in Malaysia for the 12 months to this point as much as October 2024 by way of the Highway Transport Division’s (MAA) car registration knowledge, and this time we’re specializing in the premium fashions. It’s a little bit of a shock as a result of the best-selling automobile on this listing isn’t a BMW or a Mercedes-Benz, however the Lexus RX.
The Japanese SUV instructions a sizeable lead over the remainder, with 243 items registered final month and three,591 items all through the primary ten months. Hold on a minute – how did Lexus Malaysia instantly promote hundreds of autos a 12 months?
Nicely it hasn’t. As you’ll all know, the RX is a well-liked gray import or reconditioned automobile, and JPJ’s knowledge doesn’t differentiate between official and recon items. As such, distributor UMW Toyota Motor sees little or no of the income generated by all these gross sales. The truth is, as a result of recon automobiles are nearly all the time from a premium model, they doubtless make up a big share of the gross sales listed right here.
In second place sits BMW’s benchmark 3 Collection with 193 items bought in October (2,313 items YTD), adopted by the Mercedes-Benz A-Class with 151 items bought in October (1,998 items YTD). The three Collection’ largest competitor, the C-Class, is definitely in fourth with 163 items bought in October and 1,986 items bought for the 12 months to this point.
It must be famous, nevertheless, that gross sales of the C-Class have fallen from their excessive of 275 items in April with the introduction of the C350e plug-in hybrid the next month, changing the gentle hybrid C300. Conversely, gross sales of the E-Class (318 items in October, 1,297 items YTD) picked up with the launch of the brand new W214 in September, regardless that it additionally has a PHEV variant (the E350e). Additionally, regardless of enjoying second fiddle to Lexus and BMW, Mercedes has 4 automobiles of the highest six, which is actually spectacular.
Munich’s best-selling compact automobile sits a lowly seventh – the X1, which additionally contains the electrical iX1, discovered 142 houses final month and 1,158 for the 12 months to this point. That is adopted by the Lexus NX (112 items in October, 1,158 items YTD) and the Porsche Cayenne (99 items in October, 1,133 items YTD), that are additionally positioned unusually excessive, doubtless due to recon gross sales.
Ditto the Mercedes CLA, gross sales of which at the moment are wholly made up of grey-import autos and a smattering of official AMG CLA45S items, rounding off the highest ten with 74 items registered in October and 951 items for the 12 months to this point.
The best positioned automobile not from Lexus, BMW or Mercedes is the MINI Countryman in twelfth with 56 items bought final month (811 items YTD), whereas its sibling, the Cooper hatch, is fifteenth with an equivalent 56 items bought final month, for a YTD determine of 664. The opposite stragglers are the sensible #1 and #3 (49 items in October, 510 items YTD) and the Volvo XC60 (31 items in October, 436 items YTD).
Finishing the highest 20 is the BMW i5, which is weirdly counted individually from the 5 Collection (103 items in October, 541 items YTD). The electrical govt sedan registered 33 gross sales in October and 410 for the 12 months to this point. In what is going to absolutely ring alarm bells at BMW Malaysia, final month’s gross sales of the 5 Collection and i5 mixed make up lower than half that of the E-Class.
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