Perodua targets record sales and output in 2021 | Automotive Industry News

Perodua, Malaysia’s second nationwide automobile firm, mentioned it aimed to extend gross sales by 9% to 240,000 automobiles in 2021 from 220,163 models in 2020.

Malaysia’s largest automobile producer, with Daihatsu Motor as its strategic shareholder, mentioned demand this 12 months could be underpinned by the not too long ago introduced extension of the gross sales tax exemption till the top of June 2021. The corporate mentioned it might rely upon its present fashions to attain its targets this 12 months with the Myvi, Axia and Bezza its finest promoting fashions in 2020.

The corporate’s automobile output was projected to rise by 23% to a file 272,000 models this 12 months, because it seems to “replenish shares to make sure immediate deliveries after 2020 ended higher than beforehand anticipated for each Perodua and the trade as a complete”, Perodua president and CEO Datuk Zainal Abidin Ahmad mentioned in an announcement.

Zainal added “this might generate MYR6.5bn (US$1.6bn) in income for our native distributors”.

Perodua mentioned it remainED the most important purchaser of automotive parts in Malaysia with all its fashions having native content material of over 90%.