The Perodua Aruz has taken the top spot on Malaysia’s most popular SUV list and with such high demand, the waiting period is understandably longer than normal. Previously, excited customers had to wait around two months to get their new cars but now, Perodua has succeeded in cutting it down to just one month.
This is because with such high bookings for the Aruz, Perodua has bumped up their production numbers and estimated that they have reached a sales figure of 140,900 units from January to July of this year. The Perodua Aruz alone sold 17,989 units.
According to Perodua President and CEO, Dato’ Zainal Abidin Ahmad, “In terms of comparison, the months of June, July and August last year saw a “tax holiday” resulting from the elimination of the Goods and Services Tax or GST by the government. Notwithstanding the circumstance, we are fortunate that our performance so far is comparable to the “tax holiday” impact.”
“We continue to focus on quality and delivery as our customers comes first. We thank you for your continued and strong support which has led to the Aruz being the most popular SUV in Malaysia – this is truly an important milestone for us,” added Dato’ Zainal.
Perodua targets that they will hit their sales target of 235,000 by year-end, which is an increase of 3.4% compared to last year where they successfully delivered 227,334 units. Judging by how popular the Aruz is plus still very strong demands for the rest of their line-up, we’re pretty sure that they’ll hit their mark even before the end of 2019.
