Malaysians like driving tall, and have confirmed so with their cash. From a complete of 508,911 vehicles sold in Malaysia last year, SUVs and 4x4s comprised 136,497 items in 2021, which represented a 43% achieve over the 95,477 items from the section offered in 2020, in response to the numbers launched by the Malaysian Automotive Association.
By comparability, normal passenger automobiles noticed a drop in quantity by almost one-fifth, or 19.7% to 282,155 items final yr, down from 351,198 items offered in 2020. This is from the 2021 complete of 452,663 passenger autos, itself a drop of 5.9% from the 480,971 passenger autos offered in 2020.
In reality, the SUV and 4X4 section was the one one amongst passenger autos to chart a achieve in sales this yr. Sales of window vans dropped 11.8% to 901 items final yr from 1,021 items in 2020, whereas multi-purpose autos (MPVs) recorded a drop of 0.5% to 33,110 items final yr from 33,275 items offered in 2020.
The Proton X50 staked its declare because the nationwide carmaker’s best-selling SUV and likewise the most well-liked SUV in the nation, with 28,774 units sold as of the primary week of the yr and thus inserting it in the model’s line-up second solely to the Proton Saga sedan.
Staying on the SUV topic, the Proton X70 recorded sales of 16,375 items, making it the top-selling C-segment SUV in the nation final yr. Proton offered 45,149 SUVs in 2021, accounting for almost 40% of its 114,708 units sold last year in Malaysia and abroad.
While Perodua usually maintains its lead on the sales charts and has unsurprisingly done so again for 2021, it was crushed to the highest step in the SUV stakes because the Ativa, launched in March, recorded 26,847 sales to the X50’s aforementioned 28,774 items. Meanwhile, sales of the Aruz contributed 15,313 items final yr. From Perodua’s 2021 tally of 190,291 autos, the Ativa and Aruz made up 22% of the model’s sales.
