New car sales breached the 40,000-mark for the first time in 2025 last March helping lift the Philippine auto industry’s figures to 117,074 units for the first quarter of 2025.
According to the joint report of the Chamber of Automotive Manufacturers of the Philippines (CAMPI) and Truck Manufacturers Association (TMA), March saw sales reach 40,306 units, an uptick of 2.9 percent in new vehicle sales versus February 2025. This figure is also 6.8 percent better compared to the same month from the previous year.
Commercial vehicles (CVs) accounted for the bulk of new vehicles sold with 31,857 units (79.04 percent) finding new owners last March. Meanwhile, 8,449 units (20.96 percent) were passenger cars (PCs).
Toyota rallied to its best monthly sales figure in 2025 as it sold 18,907 units in March enough for a 46.91 percent share. In second to fifth were Mitsubishi with 7,834 (19.44 percent), Nissan with 2,280 (5.66 percent), Ford with 1,885 (4.68 percent), and Suzuki with 1,883 (4.67 percent).
Thanks to the addition of Tesla as the newest brand to join CAMPI, electrified vehicle sales shot up to 1,895 units sold in March.
By itself, the Elon Musk-led automaker reported 211 units sold in the first three months—a monthly average of about 70 units per month. And since BYD likes to keep its monthly sales figures shrouded in mystery, officially, Tesla accounted for 30 percent of all battery electric vehicles sold in the first three months of 2025 (692 units), officially at least.
Meanwhile, Chinese brands accounted for 4.33 percent of all new cars sold last March. Leading all brands from the Middle Kingdom were MG with 787 units sold, followed by Foton (290), GAC (234), Jetour (122), JMC (108), Changan (102), and Chery (101).
March 2025 New Car Sales
- Toyota – 18,907 (46.91%)
- Mitsubishi – 7,834 (19.44%)
- Nissan – 2,280 (5.66%)
- Ford – 1,885 (4.68%)
- Suzuki – 1,883 (4.67%)
- Honda – 1,551 (3.85%)
- Isuzu – 1,514 (3.76%)
- Hyundai – 1,020 (2.53%)
- Kia – 805 (2%)
- MG – 787 (1.95%)
- Foton – 290 (0.72%)
- GAC – 234 (0.58%)
- Tesla – 211 (0.52%)
- Hino – 190 (0.47%)
- Fuso – 162 (0.4%)
- Mazda – 140 (0.35%)
- Jetour – 122 (0.3%)
- JMC – 108 (0.27%)
- Changan – 102 (0.25%)
- Chery – 101 (0.25%)
- BMW – 65 (0.16%)
- Mercedes-Benz – 58 (0.14%)
- Jaguar Land Rover – 30 (0.07%)
- Dodge Jeep Ram – 11 (0.03%)
- Volkswagen – 9 (0.02%)
- Peugeot – 4 (0.01%)
- Ferrari – 3 (0.01%)
In terms of monthly sales performance, biggest gainers included Jaguar Land Rover (+43 percent), Jetour (+36 percent), Hino (+27 percent), and Honda (+20 percent). Biggest droppers? Peugeot (-56 percent), Dodge Jeep Ram (-15 percent), and Changan (-14 percent).
When it comes to monthly PC sales, here’s how the Top 10 ranked:
- Toyota – 3,935
- Mitsubishi – 2,107
- Suzuki – 707
- Honda – 652
- MG – 350
- Tesla – 211
- Nissan – 190
- BMW – 65
- Mercedes-Benz – 60
- Kia – 34
- Toyota – 14,972
- Mitsubishi – 5,727
- Nissan – 2,090
- Ford – 1,870
- Isuzu – 1,514
- Suzuki – 1,176
- Hyundai – 1,017
- Honda – 899
- Kia – 771
- MG - 437
From a quarterly perspective, Kia was without a doubt the best-performing car brand as its January to March 2025 sales figures shot up 101 percent compared to the same period in 2024. Other improvers include Changan (+95 percent), Foton (+34 percent), JMC (+34 percent), and Fuso (+49 percent). Biggest droppers were Chery (-65 percent), Ford (-31 percent), Peugeot (-53 percent), Mazda (-40 percent), and Jeep Dodge Ram (-42 percent).
Chinese brands, held steady with a 4.5 percent market share. MG is by far the best-selling Chinese brand with 2,422 units sold, followed by Foton (983), GAC (655), Changan (339), JMC (300), and Jetour (293).
During the first quarter of 2025, a total of 5,311 green-plate electrified vehicles were sold. Broken down, 4,554 units were HEVs, 75 were PHEVs, and 692 were BEVs.
Curious about the sales of the ff. Chinese brands in our country:
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GWM
BAIC
Dongfeng
And the Vietnamese brand Vinfast
None of those are CAMPI members. GWM and Dongfeng (Legado Motor) are members of AVID (as far as we know...unless they've pulled out). The others aren't part of any organization.
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Chery's sales will improve now that the Tiggo Cross,more affordable version of Tiggo 8 Pro and newly updated more affordable version of Tiggo 8 Pro PHEV are now available in the Philippine market
Astara and Inchcape both abandoned the Stellantis car brands they're distributing as Stellantis Malaysia plans to establish a unified local vehicle distribution business featuring Peugeot,Jeep,Dodge and RAM vehicles in the Philippine market under their own management