The Toyota Yaris ranks #2 in Italy for the second month running. Picture quattroruote.it New car sales in Italy start the year with a -14.1% year-on-year drop in January to 134.772 units. Stable private sales pull the market up at -0.7% to 91.561 and 67.9% share vs. 58.8% in January…
The Fiat 500 was the best-selling electric vehicle in Italy in December. Picture quattroruote.it Consult over 90 years of Italian Historical Data here. New car sales in Italy are off -27.7% year-on-year in 2020 to 1.393.556 units, the lowest annual figure since 2014 (1.359.616). Private sales resist markedly better at…
The Toyota Yaris is up to #2 in Italy in November. The Italian new car market is back down -8.2% year-on-year in November to 139.906 units, -12.7% when looking at the daily sales rate as this year November had one additional working day. Year-to-date volumes are down -28.8% or over…
The Suzuki Ignis secures a second consecutive - and ever - Top 20 finish. After sporting their first year-on-year gain of 2020 in September (+9.8%), new car sales in Italy stabilise in October at -0.3% to 158.250. The year-to-date tally is now down -30.7% year-on-year to 1.131.466 units. We are…
Renault Captur sales are up 139.5% year-on-year in Italy in September. Picture quattroruote.it The scrappage schemes and green car incentives implemented at the start of August in Italy have had a chance to stretch their legs in September which marks the first year-on-year gain of 2020 at a solid +9.8% to…
The Ford Puma breaks into the Italian Top 5 for the first time in August. Picture red-live.it Going against all European markets we have covered so far including France (-19.8%), Spain (-10.1%), Belgium (-24.1%), the Netherlands (-21.5%) and Austria (-29.9%) new car sales in Italy actually fare better in August…
The VW Golf is inside the Italian Top 5 for the first time since February 2018. New car sales in Italy continue to recover from a catastrophic Covid-19 episode with July sales down -11.2% to 137.086 units, and this before the implementation of the Legge Relancio destined to prop the…
Volvo is the only Top 30 carmaker managing a double-digit gain in June. Italy has now been out of lockdown for two full months and its new car market accordingly improves month after month: from absolute hell in both March (-85.4%) and April (-97.5%) to -49.4% in May and -23.3% in June thanks…
The BMW 3 Series goes from #87 in 2019 to #57 so far in 2020. Picture quattroruote.it We can now share with you a more detailed YTD models ranking for Italy over the first four months of 2020. Outside the familiar Top 50, notice the Range Rover Evoque up to…
The VW T-Roc is up to a record 2nd place overall in Italy in May. Having been hit by COVID-19 earlier and harder than most other European countries with some cities in quarantine as early as late February, Italy was able to ease its nationwide lockdown a little earlier as…
Italy was under a nationwide lockdown during all of April. 26/06 update: Now with Top 120 YTD models. As we anticipated last week, the Italian new car market has ground to an almost complete halt in April as the country was under one of the world's strictest COVID-19 lockdowns during…
Italy is scheduled to ease its national lockdown next Monday May 4. Local manufacturers association UNRAE today announced that just 2.073 new cars were registered in the country between April 1-24 as the country was under a strict national lockdown all through the month, and predicts the market will freeze…
Some parts of Italy have been under quarantine since late February. With a red zone established in eleven municipalities in the province of Lodi as early as 21 February, extended to a large part of Northern Italy including Milan on March 8 then to the entire nation on March 10, the Italian…
The Ford Puma is the best-selling hybrid in Italy so far in 2020. New car sales in Italy accelerate their fall in February to -8.8% year-on-year and 162.793 registrations, leading to a year-to-date volume now down -7.3% to 318.545. As of today March 5, over 3.000 Italians have been infected…
The Alfa Romeo Stelvio is up to #4 in Valle d'Aosta. After Spain, we now delve into another very rare set of data: Top 20 models by sales volume for each Italian region. Again this is 2018 data with all corresponding 2017 figures, and 2019 figures should become available towards…