Every registration tells a small story: what Malaysia drives, what colours we love (and abandon), how Proton's crown passed to Perodua, what a lockdown does to a car market, and how fast the electric wave is rising. Scroll to explore a quarter-century of car culture, drawn from the official registration record.
Drag the timeline — or press play — to watch vehicle registrations pile up at JPJ state counters from January 2000 to May 2026. The waveform below the map is the monthly pulse of the market: steady growth, festival lulls, a lockdown cliff — and record highs after it.
A 26-year battle of the brands. Proton starts far ahead — then Perodua grinds it down year by year and takes the all-time lead in December 2014, never to give it back. Watch for the fallen giants (Nissan, Naza, Ford) and, right at the end, the late surge of Chery and BYD, the new arrivals from China.
In 2018, ten electric vehicles were registered in Malaysia — all year. In 2026, EVs take 7.6% of the market. This is what a hockey stick looks like in real registration data.
In 2000, a third of new cars were silver — and green was the #2 colour (13.9%!). Then came the white decade. Now grey rules. Watch 26 years of fashion in one chart, painted in the cars' real colours.
For decades the ordinary “motokar” — saloons and hatchbacks — was nearly the whole market. Then the “jip” (SUV/4WD) caught fire: from 3% of registrations in 2010 to 28% in 2026.
1.58 million Perodua Myvis have been registered since 2000 — roughly 1 in 10 of every vehicle in this dataset. Below: the all-time top 15, and the year-by-year crown that passed from Wira to Kancil to Myvi to Axia to Bezza.