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…
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 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…
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…