The Bezza.
KUALA LUMPUR: The Perodua Bezza was named the 2017 Frost & Sullivan’s Malaysia Car of the Year award at the 2017 Frost & Sullivan Malaysia Excellence Awards held here last night.
The 2017 Frost & Sullivan’s Malaysia Car of the Year award was based on the model’s substantial sales volume, sales growth, market share in its segment and overall impact to the total industry volume.
Frost & Sullivan also named the Bezza as the 2017 Frost & Sullivan Malaysia Debut Car of the Year and the Perodua Axia as the 2017 Frost & Sullivan Malaysia Value-for-Money (1.3L & Below Category) Car of the Year.
Ahmad Suhaimi (left) receiving the main award from a Frost & Sullivan official.
“We are overwhelmed with this recognition for the Perodua Bezza and the Axia. The 2017 Frost & Sullivan’s Malaysia Car of the Year Award for the Bezza is an endorsement towards our first ever full upper body designed model,” said Perodua president & CEO Datuk Aminar Rashid Salleh.
The Bezza was launched on July 21 last year and is the bestselling sedan for the first quarter of 2017 with over 15,900 units sold. It has sold about 50,900 units since it was launched in July last year.
The sedan comes in five variants: the 1.0L Manual Transmission & Automatic Transmission; the 1.3L “Premium X” Manual & Automatic Transmission; and the 1.3L “Advanced Version” Automatic Transmission.
Perodua has sold some 231,300 units of the Axia since it was launched in September 2014. It is the first Energy Efficient Vehicle produced in Malaysia.
Receiving the Car of the Year award was Datuk Ahmad Suhaimi Hashim, while Datuk Dr Zahari Husin accepted the other two awards.
