Malaysia April 2013: Very healthy market up 19% year-on-year

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No detailed models data has been available for Malaysia for almost a year now because the Competition Commissioner believes that sharing of detailed historical sales data will have some sort of negative effect on competition and place consumers at a disadvantage… As a result many companies are unwilling to supply the data to the Malaysian Automotive Association. So we have to do with just overall sales data. Building on an 8% year-on-year gain in March, the Malaysian new car market is up a whopping 19% year-on-year to 52,489 registrations, however this is compared with a period last year when Honda wasn’t selling any cars in the country…

Previous month: Malaysia March 2013: Market back up 8%

One year ago: Malaysia April 2012: Proton Preve makes its first appearance

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