The Ford Puma is up to a record 2nd place in Italy in April. Italian new car sales collapse in April at -33% year-on-year to 97,339 units, driving the year-to-date tally down -26.5% to 435,647. Private sales fall even faster at -40.1% to 52,304 and 53% share (-6.5 points) and…
The Citroen C3 is up to a record #2 in Italy in March. The Italian new car market worsens again in the absence of any incentives, with March sales down a dizzying -29.7% or 50,000 cars year-on-year to just 119,497 units. The year-to-date tally is off -24.4% over the first…
Dacia is the only year-on-year gainer among the Top 12 brands. Picture quattroruote.it Things are not improving in Italy, on the contrary: February sales are off by a damning -22.6% to 110,869 units, leading to a year-to-date tally down -21.1% to 218,716 units. Private sales drop -25.9% to 69,900 and…
The Toyota Yaris Cross is cannibalising Yaris sales in Italy. Now updated with the Top 30 BEV models. New car sales in Italy tumble down -19.7% year-on-year in January to 107,814 units whereas January 2021 was already down -14.1% on the year prior. A very poor start of the year…
The Fiat 500 is up to a record 2nd place at home in 2021. Consult over 90 years of Italian Historical Data here. The Italian new car market is up a shy 5.5% year-on-year in 2021 to 1,457,952 units as the microchip shortage continued to impact stocks and sales with…
The Toyota Yaris Cross breaks into the Italian Top 10 for the first time in November. New car sales in Italy slide down -24% year-on-year in November to 106,690 units, an improvement on the -35.7% of October but still a very significant loss. This leads to a year-to-date tally up 8.9%…
The Fiat Panda holds 11% of the Italian market in October. The microchip crisis and lack of significant and generalised incentives means the Italian new car market is accelerating its fall in October to -35.7% at 101.015 units, compared with -33.1% in September and -26.9% in August. The year-to-date volume…
The Dacia Spring is the best-selling BEV in Italy in September. The microchip and parts crisis and the expiration of government incentives have combined to produce a particularly ghastly month in Italy in September with sales plunging -32.5% to 106.345 units. The year-to-date volume is now up 20.9% to 1.176.520.…
Kia is the only year-on-year gainer in the Top 25. Picture quattroruote.it The Italian new car market accelerate its fall in August at -27.1% year-on-year to just 65.185 units, leading to a year-to-date tally up 31.1% to 1.069.875. Compared to the first 8 months of 2019, the Italian market is…
The Toyota Yaris is up 89.2% year-on-year in Italy in July. In line with poor results in Spain, the Italian new car market freefalls -19.2% year-on-year in July to just 111.300 units. The year-to-date tally is now up 38.3% to 1.004.165. Compared to the pre-pandemic volumes of two years ago,…
The Dacia Sandero is up to #2 overall in Italy in June. Picture lastampa.it New car sales in Italy gain 12.6% year-on-year in June to 150.331 units, leading to a year-to-date tally up 51.6% to 892.548. When comparing with pre-pandemic levels of two years ago, the market is down -13.3%…
Toyota C-HR sales are up 7.9% on two years ago in May. The Italian new car market soars 43% year-on-year in May to 142.730 sales, lifting the year-to-date tally up 62.8% to 735.125. However a more telling comparison is with pre-pandemic May 2019, and this time sales sink -27.9% which…
Fiat 500 sales are up 45.5% on April 2019. New car sales in Italy are up 3261% year-on-year in April, reflecting the year-ago lockdown when only 4.295 cars were registered, but down -16.7% on two years ago to 146.270 units. The year-to-date tally is now up 68.6% year-on-year but remains…
The Fiat 500 is up to #2 at home in March. Picture quattroruote.it One year ago, the Italian new car market was paralysed by a strict coronavirus lockdown, and logically this month sales shoot back up 495.7% year-on-year to 171.064 units. A more adequate comparison is with March 2019 which…
The Ford Puma is up to a record #3 in February in Italy. Picture red-live.it New car sales in Italy record a third consecutive double-digit loss in February at -12.3% to 144.138 registrations. Contrary to Spain which we've just covered, private sales are actually up in Italy this month at…