Proton has sold 100,821 units of vehicles in 2019, a 55.7 percent increase over sales in 2018, mainly contributed by Proton X70 and Proton Saga models.

This is the first time the national carmaker crossed the 100,000-unit threshold since 2015.

“Powering Proton’s sales growth last year was the Proton X70, along with a double-digit percentage increase in sales for its four updated models launched in 2019.

“Proton Saga was again the most popular A-segment sedan with 3,892 units sold in December. Total sales for 2019 closed at 38,144 units, equivalent to a 36 percent increase in volume,” it said in a statement today.

Proton said sales during December were the highest for the whole of 2019, growing 112 percent to 11,117 units over the corresponding month in 2018.

This is equivalent to a 20.5 percent share of the total industry volume (TIV) in December and also the first time the company had sold more than 11,000 cars in a month since July 2014, it said.

Proton said its overall market share for 2019 was estimated at 16.7 percent, the highest figure it achieved since 2014.

- Bernama