Here are the best-selling cars in Italy
Why car registrations were down in August and which are the best-selling models in Italy. Facts, numbers, comments and analysis
The Italian car market recorded a new collapse in August and fears further drops in the future: registrations – according to data from the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport – were 64,689, 27.3% less than in the same month of 2020.
HOW DO CAR REGISTRATIONS GO
Since the beginning of the year, 1,060,182 cars have been sold, up by 30.9% compared to the same period last year, but down by 20% on 2019. The end of eco-bonuses and above all the microchip crisis have a minor impact. , underline the operators of the sector, who are asking in unison for the refinancing of the incentives for electric and hybrid cars ( here criticisms and proposals of the Motus-E association ).
THE CLASSIFICATION OF MODELS
Stellantis sold 21,636 cars in the month, 36.3% less than in 2020, while in the eight months the group's registrations were 412,580 (+ 31.3%) with the share rising to 39%. Six models are in the 'top ten' of August: the Fiat Panda always at the top of the ranking (3,009 units), followed in second place by the Fiat 500 (2,444) by the Lancia Ypsilon (2,056), to the fifth by the Jeep Renegade, which rises three positions, seventh by the Jeep Compass and ninth by the Fiat 500X.
THE COMMENT OF THE SUN 24 HOURS
A number of factors affect the negative performance of the overall data for August, starting with the lengthening of the delivery times of the cars caused by the shortage of microprocessors along the supply chain that are affecting, for example, the Stellantis plants in Italy, from Melfi to Pomigliano. written il Sole 24 Ore: "To this variable are added at least two others: on the one hand the comparison with a period, August 2020, of strong rebound in demand after the months of lockdown, on the other hand the" sobbing "availability of Ecobonus. The summer month of last year was strongly characterized by the presence of state incentives that helped to bring sales to 88,973 units, in line with the same month of 2019. Last August, on the other hand, the booking phase of the Ecobonus was opened. for cars with emissions from 60 to 135 gr / km but without a drag effect on registrations yet, which will probably be seen in the coming weeks ”.
THE POSITION OF THE UNRAE
With the August figure, the cars lost from the market in eight months compared to the same period in 2019, underlines the Unrae, the Association of foreign car manufacturers, exceed 260 thousand units, with one million and 60,182 cars sold, on 20 % less than in the pre-Covid phase, although compared to 2020 the market has recovered more than 30% of volumes since the beginning of the year.
DATA ANALYSIS
The worsening of the Italian car market is due "to the lack of sales support given by the scrapping incentives foreseen for the first half of 2021 for cars with CO2 emissions between 61 and 135 gr / km" and "to the the expansion of the crisis in the supply of microchips with heavy repercussions on the production activity and therefore on the delivery times of the cars ”explains the Centro Studi Promotor. “The icing on the cake is the fact that at the end of August the allocation for eco-bonuses for the purchase of cars with CO2 emissions from 0 to 60 g / km was exhausted. A situation has arisen that to define a perfect storm on the car is absolutely appropriate ”.
ECOBONUS DOSSIER
However, the exhaustion of funds for the Ecobonus – which took place on August 26 – had a marginal impact on the drop in registrations of the month. This is because – note insiders – the dynamics of the incentive (paid to the customer in the form of a discount on the purchase price) provides that the booking of the state contribution takes place at the signing of the contract, there is then a bureaucratic registration procedure from the car which generally lasts no less than a week and in the end the bonus is paid to the dealer or the parent company by credit.
THE COMMENT OF THE PROMOTOR STUDY CENTER
According to Gian Primo Quagliano, president of the Centro Studi Promotor, “the recovery of the Italian economy cannot gain further momentum if the car sector proves to be a ball and chain. It is therefore necessary that the Government and Parliament intervene immediately to overcome the August storm ”. For Unrae, in the coming months the situation of the Italian car market "can only worsen given the rapid exhaustion of the Ecobonus allocated by the dl Sostegni bis in favor of pure electric cars and plug-in hybrids with 0-60 g emissions / Km CO2 ". Anfia believes that "it is necessary to resume dialogue with the Government to define, in the coming months, a strategic plan for the industrial reconversion of the automotive sector".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/smartcity/immatricolazioni-auto-piu-vendute/ on Thu, 02 Sep 2021 06:40:44 +0000.