Toyota Avanza strikes back in Indonesia, Wuling eyeing The Big 5

After 5 months a row beaten by new challenger, Mitsubishi Xpander, in June 2018, Toyota Avanza, for the first time in 2018, leads best selling model by beat Mitsubishi Xpander with 4.455 units sold vs 3.278 units sold. In between, there is Toyota Calya with 4.057 units sold. However for YTD June 2018 basis, Mitsubishi Xpander still leads with 39.948 units while Toyota Avanza grabs 37.339 units sold, still 2.609 gaps between this two titans, make Mitsubishi Xpander may still smile but need to speed up for sure if doesn't want lose great opportunity to become The King of Car in Indonesia for 2018.

Good performance from Toyota Avanza bring Toyota occupied 40.24% market share for June 2018 with 17.354 units sold, followed by Honda with 9.096 units sold, Daihatsu with 4.875 units sold, Mitsubishi with 4.566 units sold and Suzuki with 4.170 units sold. The big 5, as usual still dominated car market in Indonesia with 92.89%.

Wuling officially grabs 6th position by surpassed Datsun with both of monthly basis and YTD June 2018 basis. Wuling, with only Confero and Cortez in the market, sold 1.139 units on June 2018, while Datsun 812 units. This time, Datsun can not smile again as Wuling also beats Datsun in YTD basis with 8.120 units sold vs 7.261 units sold. Again, please keep on your mind that Wuling not even 1 year to officially sell a car in Indonesia, so you can imagine what happened when Wuling become more experiences in very near future. If Wuling can growth up from this point, Wuling may become member of The Big 5 in the future.

In the meantime, Datsun's brother, Nissan secures 201 units in June 2018, followed by BMW with 200 units sold and Mazda with 198 units.

It still 6 months remaining with Gaikindo Indonesia International Auto Show 2018 which will be held on 2-12 August 2018 just in couple weeks, it is time for all of OEM to boost its sales to create its own success story and make differences eventually. Automotive Market in Indonesia, the biggest market in ASEAN, will always become very demanding and interested to watch. So let's see what happened in the next 6 months!