The road transport department (JPJ) has furnished its registration data for the month of February 2025, giving us a snapshot of how the automotive industry did last month. Here, we’re taking a take a look at the highest 20 best-selling brands, and it’s no surprise who’s on top.
Yes, as has been the case for time immemorial, Perodua has taken a commanding lead with 31,382 vehicles registered in February, representing a sizeable 38.3% hop over the previous month. That’s almost thrice its nearest challenger, Proton, which sold just 11,068 vehicles. Its 54,627-unit year-to-date figure paints the same picture, being excess of double its fellow national carmaker’s 20,756 units.
Proton does at the very least hold a cushty gap to Toyota, of which 7,837 units were registered last month, resulting in a YTD figure of 15,407 units. Surprisingly, the corporate holds a razor-thin margin over arch-rival Honda, which managed to register 7,228 units. Sales of the H brand have rebounded from a low of three,628 units in January, due to City sales greater than doubling and the Civic getting a shot within the arm with the arrival of the recently-launched facelift.
The effect of a slow January implies that Honda’s YTD registrations of 10,866 units trails that of Toyota, but that gap isn’t expected to grow significantly. Keep in mind that Toyota’s figures include not only business vehicles just like the Hilux but in addition a big amount of grey market “recon” units (last 12 months, nearly 21% of T-badged cars were registered outside the brand’s official sales network, versus just over 4 per cent for Honda), meaning that Honda has likely overtaken Toyota as the general non-national sales champion officially.
In a distant fifth sits Jaecoo, which overcame its previous month’s slump, with registrations greater than doubling to 1,684 units. In the method it has overtaken Mitsubishi and Chery, the latter being particularly noteworthy provided that Jaecoo currently sells just two models (J7 and Omoda C9) in comparison with its parent company’s three.
Completing the highest ten are three brands inside 62 units of one another, these being Mazda (645 units, 1,352 YTD), BYD (634 units, 1,139 YTD) and BMW (583 units, 1,184 YTD). So high-quality are the margins that comparatively strong January sales from Eleventh-placed Mercedes-Benz (546 units in February) meant it could hold on to ninth within the YTD standings (1,298 units).
The subsequent five brands were in the identical positions as they were in January (including Lexus, and we all know an amazing majority of registrations every month are of recon cars). But by far the largest gainer was Tesla, sales of which rebounded from a low of just 13 units in January to 443 units in February – proving that anti-Elon Musk sentiment was not a big factor for its dismal performance the previous month. And that’s before deliveries of the facelifted Model Y, codenamed Project Juniper, kick off next month.
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This Article First Appeared At paultan.org
