Italy February 2024: Fiat Panda, Dacia Sandero and Citroen C3 top market up 12.8%

The Dacia Sandero repeats at #2 in Italy.

147,094 new cars hit Italian roads in February, a +12.8% year-on-year increase. The year-to-date tally is up 11.7% to 289,103. Private sales (+18.3%) beat the market to 57.1% share vs. 54.3% a year ago and are up 14.1% year-to-date to 59.1% of the market vs. 57.9% over the same period in 2023. Self registrations are up 20.4% to 13,647 and 9.2% share vs. 8.6% and up 7.6% so far this year. Long term leases are in difficult at -15.7% to 29,864 and 20% share vs. 26.7% in February 2023 and down -6.1% year-to-date to 20.6% share vs. 24.6%. In contrast short-term rentals surge at +101.% to 12,136 for the month and +138.6% to 18,019 so far this year. Company sales are up 7.8% in February at +7.2% YTD.

As for sales by alimentation, Petrol sales continue their resurgence at an impressive +34.2% to 46,428 and 31.1% share vs. 26.1% a year ago and are up 30.7% YTD to 90,129 and 30.7% share vs. 26.3%. Diesel is off -13.2% to 22,063 and 14.8% share vs. 19.2% in 2023 and down -10.8% YTD to 44,758 and 15.3% vs. 19.1%. LPG is up 6.5% to 14,180 and up 11.5% YTD to 29,770, HEV gains 16.5% to 56,323 and 37.8% share vs. 36.5%, that includes 14,886 full hybrids (+14.5%) and 41,427 mild hybrids (+17.2%). YTD, HEVs are up 15.7% to 111,122 including 30,088 full hybrids (+17.5%) and 81,034 mild ones (+15%). BEVs are weak at +2.8% only to 5,054 and 3.4% share vs. 3.7% a year ago and are down -2.7% YTD to 8,037 and 2.7% share vs. 3.1%. Finally PHEVs slide down -16.5% to 4,693 in February and -25.1% YTD to 8,808.

Fiat (+14.8%) dominates the brands charts with a weak 12% share, distancing Toyota (+25.9%) up to 7.4% of the market. Volkswagen (-13.4%) is in trouble at #3, enduring the only year-on-year drop in the Top 10 alongside Ford (-13.1%). Dacia (+15%) falls from a record #2 last month to #4 but still manages to outpace the market with 6.1% share. Peugeot (+19.1%) is also dynamic at #5, followed by Renault (+8.6%) and Jeep (+4%) more subdued. Citroen (+40.3%) and Audi (+15.1%) round out the Top 10 in solid fashion. Below, MG (+202.9%), Lancia (+69%), Suzuki (+65.2%), Seat (+64.2%), Cupra (+63.9%), Tesla (+41%), Hyundai (+39.4%) and BMW (+36.4%) make themselves noticed.

Model-wise, the Top 4 vastly outrun the market, with the podium unchanged on last month: the Fiat Panda (+42.1%) is up to 7.7% share, the Dacia Sandero (+25.4%) up to 3.9%, the Citroen C3 (+45.6%) up to 3.1% and the Lancia Ypsilon (+69%) up to 2.8%. The Toyota Yaris Cross (-14.6%) is markedly weaker than last year but still manages to get up one spot on January to close out the Top 5. The Toyota Yaris (+73.9%) rallies back up 14 ranks on last month to #6, with the Jeep Avenger down three to a still very impressive 7th place, the Renault Captur up four to #8, the Fiat 500X (+16.2%) up nine to #9 and the Peugeot 208 (+133.9%) down one to #10. The MG ZS (+473.9%) ranks #16 for the month and #15 year-to-date (+296.2%).

Previous month: Italy January 2024: Dacia hits record 2nd place, Jeep Avenger at #4

One year ago: Italy February 2023: Volkswagen, Dacia, Toyota race up in market at +17.5%

Full February 2024 Top 50 All brands and Top 50 models below.