PERODUA sold over 20,100 vehicles in the first month of the year, of which the company registered 1,025 units of its recently-launched Aruz SUV on Jan 31.
Perodua Sales Sdn Bhd managing director Datuk Zahari Husin said: “Despite the delay in the registration of Aruz, we managed to maximise the delivery of Aruz up to the wee hours, in anticipation of the long Chinese New Year break.
“Pending official figure from the Malaysian Automotive Association, we estimated our market share for January 2019 to be around 41.7%, a 9.2% growth from 18,400 Perodua vehicles sold in December 2018.”
Compared to the same period last year, Perodua sold 20,100 units or 13.6% more in January this year against 17,700 units done in January 2018.
"While Aruz has been received well with 8,000 bookings so far, our other models has been doing equally well with more than 19,000 units registered in January,” said Zahari.
“The strong demand on Aruz has resulted some waiting period especially for the Advanced Version (AV) variant. We are doing our best to reduce this waiting period to a more acceptable level.”
He added that currently, the order composition is of the Aruz 85% for the AV (priced at RM77,900 without insurance) and the remaining 15% is for the X variant (priced at RM72,900 without insurance).
“On the speculation that Perodua Aruz’s price will increase, I wish to clarify that we are maintaining the price for the Aruz which is RM72,900 for the X variant and RM77,900 for the AV.”
On the demand for its other models, Zahari said sales are encouraging with the new Perodua Myvi still leading in terms of sales with over 8,400 units sold in January.
Its other models are also leading in their respective segments with the Axia, Bezza and Alza selling more than 5,500 units, 3,400 units and 1,600 units in January respectively.
