After a blinding begin to the yr in January, the gross sales momentum of the newest Proton Saga seems to have petered off, with 5,438 items of the MC3 mannequin bought in March. That’s a lower of 609 items from the 6,047 items that left vendor heaps the month earlier than – itself a big stoop from a file 10,285 items at first of the yr – representing a drop of 10.07%.
The truth is, final month’s quantity is definitely decrease than 6,154 items achieved by the earlier MC2 in March 2025. Nonetheless, due to its efficiency over the earlier two months, the Saga’s first-quarter end result was 38% up over the identical interval the yr earlier than, at 21,770 items – equating to a median of seven,571 items per 30 days.
We must always level out that the Saga’s gross sales are virtually definitely restricted by Proton’s manufacturing capability, somewhat than demand (the identical is true for arch rival Perodua Bezza), on condition that bookings stood at almost 100,000 almost two months in the past.
It seems that the large January determine was artificially boosted by the nationwide carmaker deciding to delay deliveries on the finish of final yr to 2026, presumably having achieved an inner gross sales goal (there was no publicly-declared goal for 2025). We’ve additionally heard rumblings of shoppers complaining of getting not obtained their allocation regardless of putting a reserving way back to final yr.
Even with the Saga’s relative underperformance, Proton nonetheless managed to promote 15,706 automobiles final month, a rise of 15.77% over a sluggish (by the corporate’s blockbuster 2026 requirements) February. The remainder of the lineup pulled their weight, with notably sturdy outcomes for the recently-updated S70 and X50, in addition to the brand new eMas 7 PHEV. All this led to a first-quarter determine of 49,140 items, its greatest since 2004.
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