Perodua bought 24,626 items in September 2022 – YTD now at 196,354 items, 64.9% increased in comparison with 2021

Perodua has introduced that it managed to promote 24,626 autos in September 2022, which is 5.43% lower than the 26,039 items it managed in August. Even so, whole gross sales within the third quarter of this yr (3Q22) went up by 5% to 69,011 items in comparison with the second quarter (2Q22) that noticed 65,719 items delivered.

“The rise in registrations on this quarter (3Q22) reveals that a lot of the main points throughout the automotive provide chain have normalised. It’s now time to additional enhance on manufacturing as we have to cut back the ready interval for our valued prospects,” stated Perodua president and CEO Datuk Zainal Abidin Ahmad.

With these figures, Perodua’s year-to-date (YTD) whole for the primary 9 months of this yr is at the moment at 196,354 items, 64.9% increased than the 119,093 items bought in the identical interval final yr – the goal is 247,800 items this yr.

The numerous year-on-year enhance is essentially attributable to lockdowns imposed in 2021 to comprise the unfold of Covid-19, which hindered car manufacturing and registration. That is additionally mirrored in a quarter-to-quarter comparability, as 3Q22 noticed 216.5% extra deliveries than 3Q21 – the carmaker bought simply 21,803 items between July and September final yr.

“For now, we’re targeted on growing our momentum into the fourth quarter of this yr in addition to maximising manufacturing within the first quarter of subsequent yr to make sure all our prospects who booked their Perodua autos throughout the gross sales tax exemption interval will obtain their automobile on or earlier than March 31, 2023,” Zainal stated.

The corporate additionally famous that as of June 30, 2022 – the deadline for the SST exemption – the variety of excellent bookings eligible for the exemption was above 200,000 orders. As for manufacturing, final month noticed the best variety of automobiles produced to this point this yr at 29,077 items, whereas the manufacturing YTD whole stood at 206,387 items.