{"id":307389,"date":"2026-03-01T03:05:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T03:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/307389\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T03:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T03:05:19","slug":"malaysias-auto-sales-overtake-indonesia-in-2025-to-top-southeast-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/307389\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia&#8217;s auto sales overtake Indonesia in 2025 to top Southeast Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/automobiles\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Automobiles<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">EV-driven Vietnam, which is in 4th position, closes in on Thailand<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/3\/6.jpeg\" alt=\"20260216 Malaysia Perodua Q-Ve\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim launching Perodua Q-Ve, the nation\u2019s first home grown EV car model by the second national car brand. (Photo by Ahmad Mustakim)<\/p>\n<p>ATSUSHI TOMIYAMA, NATSUMI KAWASAKI and KENTARO TAKEDA<\/p>\n<p>February 28, 2026 12:30 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">Auto sales in Malaysia surpassed those of Indonesia in 2025, making it Southeast Asia&#8217;s top market for the first time, and marking the first change in the top spot since Indonesia overtook Thailand in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Automobiles EV-driven Vietnam, which is in 4th position, closes in on Thailand Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim launching&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[836,2300,2440,138,219,5696,103377,111,139,69,101178,667,29101,3010],"class_list":["post-307389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-836","tag-asia","tag-auto","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-indonesia","tag-malaysias","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-overtake","tag-sales","tag-southeast","tag-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}