Perodua has sold 5.1 million cars since inception – see each past, current model’s production numbers here

Here’s something quite interesting – Perodua has revealed its Units in Operation (UIO), or all-time sales by model nameplate, as of end-2024. Since its 1993 birth, the national carmaker has sold 5.1 million cars – pretty amazing when you consider that Proton, which is 10 years its senior, only built its five millionth car mid-last year.

That’s an average of 164,516 vehicles per year compared to its abang’s 121,951. Of course, UIO cannot account for vehicles lost through accidents or those unoperational for whatever reason, but has Perodua’s UIO overtaken Proton’s by now? This should then mean that more Peroduas exist than Protons now, whether running on the road or not, and Perodua has much fewer models than Proton throughout its history.

The biggest number on the board, of course, belongs to the Myvi – there are nearly one-and-a-half-million of them over three generations. Comparatively, Proton’s top seller, the Saga, hit two million in May 2024 over three generations, but of course it predated the Myvi by 20 years.

The second-highest number belongs to the Axia – Perodua’s pint-sized runabout has sold some 746,000 units over two generations since its 2014 inception, overtaking the Kancil‘s 709,000 units from 1994 to 2009. The Bezza is in third place with 543,000 units, ahead of the Alza‘s 503,000 units over two generations and the Viva‘s 448,000 units from 2007 to 2014.

One Perodua model is missing from the board (shut your eyes and take a guess), but Sungai Choh sold so few that we needn’t be bothered. The Toyota Rush-based Nautica cost RM90k when it was launched in 2008. It was Perodua’s first fully-imported (CBU) model (the second was 2022’s Ativa Hybrid, although that was lease-only), and no Perodua since has worn a price tag like that.

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