Earlier, we confirmed you the high ten best-selling automobiles in Malaysia for the yr 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 offered 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 gradual begin to the yr, seemingly resulting from 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 offered in October and eight,453 items YTD – is taken into account separate from the Vios (and certain contains negligible gross sales of the GR Yaris). Put Toyota’s two B-segment choices collectively and they’d far surpass the Metropolis, overtaking even the Perodua Ativa.
In third place sits the Toyota Hilux with 2,208 items offered 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 should always level out that the overwhelming majority of registrations will seemingly be of reconditioned automobiles and subsequently not offered by UMW Toyota Motor. The identical might 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 listing 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 may see, the best-sellers listing has been fully swept by Japanese manufacturers, proving they nonetheless maintain the higher hand.
You’d need to look right down to twelfth place to seek out the primary Chinese language automobile on the listing, the Chery Omoda 5. This crossover offered properly within the first half of the yr, battling the Corolla Cross for a spot within the high six, however gross sales fell dramatically within the wake of a snapped axle challenge 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 information 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 will clarify the sudden soar in gross sales in July (769 items), comparable to the launch of the Tiggo 7 Professional the earlier month.
Simply lacking the lower is the Jaecoo J7, with cumulative registrations of three,783 items for the yr to this point. Nonetheless, the upstart SUV has been promoting extraordinarily properly because the begin of deliveries in August,hitting 1,579 items in October; the automobile is heading in the right direction to leapfrog a number of positions on this listing by the point the yr ends.
Month-to-month gross sales of properly over 1,000 items a month would rival these of the HR-V and the Corolla Cross, however we’ll need to see if this sturdy momentum will be sustained alongside the remainder of the yr and 2025.
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