KUALA LUMPUR (May 3): Perusahaan Otomobil Kedua Sdn Bhd (Perodua), the country's largest carmaker with a 41.5% market share as at March, has delivered 38,000 Myvis as of the third week of April.

Perodua Sales Sdn Bhd managing director Datuk Dr Zahari Husin said the Myvi has garnered 70,000 bookings from Nov 8, 2017 up to April 30 this year.

According to the Malaysian Automotive Association's numbers, from January to March, the compact carmaker sold 55,568 vehicles against a total industry volume of 135,140 units, returning over 41% market share.

This is an improvement of more than 10.5% over the 50,260 units registered in the first quarter of 2017, making it a record first quarter for Perodua in terms of sales.

The 55,568 sales consisted of 24,473 Myvis, 14,962 Axias, 10,101 Bezzas and 6,032 Alzas. In fact, 18% of all new cars registered in Malaysia in the first quarter of 2018 were Myvis.

On deliveries, Zahari said Perodua is working on further improving its efficiency to ensure that deliveries would be within an acceptable time frame.

He said the current waiting period for the 1.5L Myvi variants is less than three months; however, 1.3L variants can be delivered almost immediately.