We’re trying on the top-selling automobiles in Malaysia for the yr thus far as much as October 2024 by the Street Transport Division’s (MAA) car registration information, and this time we’re specializing in the premium fashions. It’s a little bit of a shock as a result of the best-selling automotive on this listing isn’t a BMW or a Mercedes-Benz, however the Lexus RX.
The Japanese SUV instructions a sizeable lead over the remainder, with 243 models registered final month and three,591 models all through the primary ten months. Cling on a minute – how did Lexus Malaysia abruptly promote hundreds of autos a yr?
Nicely it hasn’t. As you’ll all know, the RX is a well-liked gray import or reconditioned automotive, and JPJ’s information doesn’t differentiate between official and recon models. As such, distributor UMW Toyota Motor sees little or no of the income generated by all these gross sales. In reality, as a result of recon automobiles are nearly at all times from a premium model, they probably make up a big share of the gross sales listed right here.
In second place sits BMW’s benchmark 3 Collection with 193 models offered in October (2,313 models YTD), adopted by the Mercedes-Benz A-Class with 151 models offered in October (1,998 models YTD). The three Collection’ largest competitor, the C-Class, is definitely in fourth with 163 models offered in October and 1,986 models offered for the yr thus far.
It needs to be famous, nonetheless, that gross sales of the C-Class have fallen from their excessive of 275 models in April with the introduction of the C350e plug-in hybrid the next month, changing the delicate hybrid C300. Conversely, gross sales of the E-Class (318 models in October, 1,297 models YTD) picked up with the launch of the brand new W214 in September, although it additionally has a PHEV variant (the E350e). Additionally, regardless of enjoying second fiddle to Lexus and BMW, Mercedes has 4 automobiles of the highest six, which is actually spectacular.
Munich’s best-selling compact automotive sits a lowly seventh – the X1, which additionally consists of the electrical iX1, discovered 142 properties final month and 1,158 for the yr thus far. That is adopted by the Lexus NX (112 models in October, 1,158 models YTD) and the Porsche Cayenne (99 models in October, 1,133 models YTD), that are additionally positioned unusually excessive, probably due to recon gross sales.
Ditto the Mercedes CLA, gross sales of which at the moment are wholly made up of grey-import autos and a smattering of official AMG CLA45S models, rounding off the highest ten with 74 models registered in October and 951 models for the yr thus far.
The best positioned automotive not from Lexus, BMW or Mercedes is the MINI Countryman in twelfth with 56 models offered final month (811 models YTD), whereas its sibling, the Cooper hatch, is fifteenth with an similar 56 models offered final month, for a YTD determine of 664. The opposite stragglers are the sensible #1 and #3 (49 models in October, 510 models YTD) and the Volvo XC60 (31 models in October, 436 models YTD).
Finishing the highest 20 is the BMW i5, which is weirdly counted individually from the 5 Collection (103 models in October, 541 models YTD). The electrical government sedan registered 33 gross sales in October and 410 for the yr thus far. In what is going to absolutely ring alarm bells at BMW Malaysia, final month’s gross sales of the 5 Collection and i5 mixed make up lower than half that of the E-Class.
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