Perodua has sailed previous the 200,000 models gross sales mark after registering 25,849 models in October 2022. The market chief’s year-to-date gross sales is 222,203 models, which is 51.2% increased than the 146,951 models bought in Jan-Oct 2021. That feels like an enormous bounce, but it surely’s from a low base – there was a lockdown (keep in mind these issues?) between June and August final yr.
P2’s 25,849 models recorded final month is a 5% enchancment in opposition to the 24,626 models registered in September. The Bezza sedan led with 6,768 models, adopted by the Myvi with 6,130 models and the Axia with 4,989 models.
As for manufacturing, Perodua rolled out 22,974 models final month, bringing the overall variety of automobiles produced to 229,811 models year-to-date.
“Shifting ahead, we count on the registration momentum to proceed upwards till the top of the yr. Wanting forward, we plan to additional enhance our manufacturing and gross sales quantity as we attempt to transcend our earlier set gross sales goal for 2022 and by doing so will scale back the ready interval for our clients,” mentioned Perodua president and CEO Datuk Seri Zainal Abidin Ahmad mentioned.
He added that the upper than anticipated manufacturing and gross sales efficiency has impacted the native automotive ecosystem positively, provided that on common 95% of Perodua elements are sourced domestically.
“The truth is, the excessive localisation fee has additionally assist protect Perodua from the volatility within the international trade market in the mean time. It’s our intention to additional enhance the native automotive provide chain as having such an business have confirmed a profit to each Perodua and shoppers,” the P2 chief added.
At 222k and with two months to go, Perodua is nicely on monitor to realize its 2022 gross sales goal of 247,800 models. This yr’s goal is 30.2% increased than the 190,291 automobiles bought in 2021, and 12.6% greater than the 220,163 automobiles registered in 2020. If the goal is achieved, it could be an all-time document for Perodua, beating 2019’s document of 240,341 models.
