Top 20 brands in 2025 – Perodua sold over double Proton, Toyota 3rd, Honda 4th, Jaecoo 5th, BYD 6th
The Malaysian road transport department‘s (JPJ) latest figures are out, and we don’t need to tell you which brand sold the most vehicles in 2025. What you want to know is how many, and it’s 359,904 units (+0.5% over 2024), which is over 137% more than Proton’s 151,561 units (+2.7% over 2024).
That means Perodua has passed its 359k target, smashing its own record as well as that of any single carmaker in Malaysia (again). Meanwhile, Proton’s target is 156k including exports – it announced on January 2 that it sold 157,976, which means 6,415 Protons went abroad.
The usual Malaysian pair and Japanese pair conquer positions one to four – Toyota did 129,085 (+1.5% over 2024). Now, 102,417 of these were official UMW Toyota Motor cars, so you can truly see the recon Vellphard effect. Honda meanwhile faltered with 75,599 (-11.3% over 2024). Chery was fifth in 2024 with 19,687, but it’s given up the position in 2025 to the 17,845 achieved by Omoda | Jaecoo (which wasn’t even in the top 20 in 2024), instead settling for eighth with a 34%-lower 12,939 units.
At sixth we find the first EV-only brand and a global powerhouse – BYD did 14,407 (+68% over 2024 when it was 10th). At seventh, Mitsubishi sold 13,856 (-14% over 2024 when it was sixth) and at ninth, Mazda did 9,589 (-35% over 2024 when it was seventh).
Mercedes-Benz (10th) beat BMW (11th) by 1,100 units; both sold over 2,000 fewer cars than they did in 2024. Tesla, 15th in 2024, is now 12th with 7,282 (+42% over 2024). Isuzu and Lexus performed flatly. Nissan dropped three positions and 1,217 to 14th and 6,099 units, while Ford plunged three positions and 1,595 to 17th and 4,607 units.
Great Wall Motor (GWM) climbed an astonishing 176% and two positions to 16th and 5,876, essentially two-and-three-quarter times its 2024 performance. Joining the annual top 20 club for the first time, besides Omoda | Jaecoo, are Jetour (18th, 2,743) and Zeekr (19th, 2,560). This trio has shoved MINI, Volkswagen and Volvo off the list.
