Perodua sold 61,624 cars in Q1 2022, up 6.4% despite challenges – 247,800 overall sales target maintained

Despite persistent challenges such as the impact of Covid-19 and supply chain problems, Perodua posted product sales expansion in the initially quarter of 2022 with 61,624 motor vehicles registered, up 6.4% from the 57,909 autos offered from January to March 2021.

Perodua president and CEO Datuk Zainal Abidin Ahmad explained that although the outcomes of the pandemic and component provide problems are nevertheless current, the firm has been equipped to work with its suppliers and dealers to minimize the effect. “Our emphasis is now to expedite the automobiles supply to our consumers before the sales tax exemption deadline ends on June 30,” he claimed.

The industry chief registered 26,759 motor vehicles in March 2022, a 9.5% boost from the 24,433 units marketed in the similar thirty day period last yr. Compared with February, product sales jumped 53.2% from 17,421 units. Past month’s figures aren’t considerably absent from P2’s monthly file of 27,858 units, recorded in October 2021.

“Moving forward, we foresee the next quarter of 2022 to be the highlight for the automotive marketplace as brands will deliver as lots of automobiles as they can inside of that three-thirty day period period of time,” Zainal reported.

“While semiconductor chip source and Covid-19 would however influence generation, we anticipate that manufacturing and registration will proceed to make improvements to. We do not foresee other variables this kind of as the conflict in between Russia and Ukraine to have a main effects on Perodua’s manufacturing relocating forward,” the P2 main extra, declaring that the Myvi-maker’s 247,800 product sales concentrate on for 2022 will be taken care of.

If they regulate to strike that, it will be a massive 30.2% bounce from the 190,291 units shipped final calendar year. The next-era D27A Alza MPV will be a booster.