The Malaysian Automotive Association (MAA) has launched ASEAN sales information for 2021 from the month of January till November. As with the July update last year, the info is for seven of the ten ASEAN international locations, with Brunei, Cambodia and Laos being excepted.
During the primary eleven months of 2021, a complete of two,461,119 automobiles have been bought in Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, which represents a 15% improve from the two,134,038 automobiles delivered throughout the identical interval in 2020. From the January-November 2021 whole, passenger automobiles accounted for 1,563,645 items, whereas industrial automobiles made up the remaining 897,474 items.
Indonesia bought essentially the most automobiles through the Jan-Nov 2021 interval, with a complete of 790,524 automobiles (585,901 passenger automobiles, 204,623 industrial automobiles) bought. This is a major 66% improve from the identical interval the 12 months prior and marks a resurgence in automobile sales in the nation following a pandemic-hit 2020.
With this outcome, Indonesia leapfrogged Thailand, which got here in second place with 668,109 automobiles delivered, or 3% lower than in 2020. Unlike Indonesia, automobile sales in Thailand noticed the next proportion of business automobiles (388,579 items) compared to passenger automobiles (279,530 items).
Coming in third place once more is Malaysia, which registered 4% much less automobiles compared to the Jan-Nov 2020 interval with 441,136 items (392,474 PVs, 48,662 CVs). Other international locations that noticed six-determine sales embody Vietnam in fourth place (257,390 automobiles) and the Philippines in fifth (240,642 automobiles) – each noticed growths of three% and 23% respectively.
Rounding up the seven-nation listing are Singapore that noticed sales improve by 7% to 54,953 items, adopted by Myanmar that declined 46% to eight,365 items (information from Automotive Association of Myanmar members solely).
While Indonesia topped the charts in phrases of auto sales, it’s a special story when manufacturing figures. In this regard, Thailand is the chief with 1,531,337 automobiles produced (544,822 PVs, 986,515 CVs), which is nineteen% greater than in 2020.
Indonesia did make it cross the million-unit mark too, with a complete of 1,003,570 automobiles (794,475 PVs, 209,095 CVs) produced from Jan-Nov 2021 – a 61% improve. Malaysia took the third spot with 427,485 automobiles produced (396,530 PVs, 30,955 CVs), which is just barely much less (0.4%) than the identical interval in 2020.
Vietnam (142,027 automobiles, +2%) and Philippines (78,714 automobiles, +28%) took the fourth and fifth spots respectively in phrases of manufacturing, whereas Myanmar occupied the sixth spot in Singapore’s absence with 1,329 automobiles (-87%).
