The Road Transport Department (JPJ) vehicle registration details for the month of October 2025 are out, and it’s no surprise who comes out on top. The Perodua Bezza is Malaysia’s best-selling car and the compact sedan sold almost 10,000 units last month!
The Bezza’s total of 9,990 is just 10 units shy of the 10,000 mark, and we’re talking about the oldest car in P2’s stable: the company’s first sedan was launched in July 2016 and the current facelift debuted in January 2020. It’s almost a decade old now, but sales appear to be going from strength to strength.
The Bezza is the favorite punching bag of car enthusiasts, especially when it is now ‘Saga season’, but many car enthusiasts do not understand that regular people who shop in this segment value fuel efficiency and reliability (ADAS has been available since 2020, by the way), and when it comes time to sell, a camper is nice. The latter, derided by the same minority group, reflects the strong market demand for used Peroduas, supported by the same reasons stated above.
The Proton Saga is also doing very well. In September, the Bezza’s A-sedan rival broke P2’s stranglehold on the podium to finish second in the competition, and it has retained that position for October with 7,825 units.
Keep in mind that this is the outgoing Saga, which will very soon be replaced by the 2026 MC3. The revised model with a new 1.5 liter engine, a nice interior (for this segment) and ADAS availability comes too late in the year to cast doubt on the Bezza’s 2025 status, but it should be a good race next year.
After the Saga, this is the entire range of Peroduas, except the Aruz (11th). From third to sixth place are the Axia, Myvi, Alza and Ativa. The highest-placed non-national model is the Toyota Vios in seventh place (2,793), which beats the Honda City (sedan plus hatchback, 2,508, 10th). Speaking of B-segment sedans, the Proton S70 – which offers more on paper, but has a price that matches the Vios-City – comes in 14th place with just 1,402 units.
Proton had high hopes for the S70, which it hoped would take the place of the X50 as the brand’s second bestseller, after the Saga. That’s not how it turned out: S70 monthly sales exceeded the 2,000-unit mark just once this year, and the X50 (which has since been refreshed) leads in October (2,693, eighth) and YTD.
Moving on, Honda’s top two SUVs defeated their respective competitors in the segment last month. The HR-V (1,539, 13th) beat the Toyota Corolla Cross (1,323, 15th), while the CR-V (949, 19th) ahead of the Jaecoo J7 (806, 20th). In the annual table, the HR-V is ahead of the Corolla Cross, but the CR-V is behind the J7. The Proton eMas 7 made its top 20 debut in September, but Malaysia’s best-selling EV failed to stay close enough to the ICE pack last month.
Looking at the YTD table above, the 1-2 finish of the Bezza and Axia is a foregone conclusion, but the Myvi is hanging on by a thread in third place. The Saga is less than 2,000 units behind and smells of a podium finish – can the new model go full throttle into third place with a month (depending on when it’s launched) to go? The interest is there, so it depends on Proton’s production capacity. One to watch.
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