KUALA LUMPUR: Proton has continued to maintain steady growth in its sales performance year-to-date.
As at Nov 30, it achieved 66,190 units in sales, a growth of two per cent compared to 65,069 in the same period last year, driven by its Saga and Persona models.
In a statement here today, the national carmaker said, these two models continued to lead all other of the company's models with 28,368 and 18,113 units sold respectively year-to-date, making up for 70% of Proton's total car sales,
Proton's vice president of sales and marketing, Abdul Rashid Musa, said it has been a challenging journey for the company over the past five years and the steady growth recorded from January-November this year was encouraging.
"We will continue to push ourselves harder in the coming months and we hope that customers will take advantage of the year-end deals for Proton cars."
He said growth was seen from the current quality improvements that were on-going internally.
"Together with our partner, Proton has intensified quality improvement processes and efforts, with exceptional sharing of knowledge and skills, as well as the opportunity for our local team to be trained at Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co Lt in China.
"We shall continue to improve our cars and do better in providing customer satisfaction," he said.
Proton said the reliability and durability of its cars were tested in a nine-hour endurance race at the Sepang 1,000km last month, where Proton car emerged the overall winner.
