The Italian car market down 7.3% in June 2018

MOMENT NO – Also June 2018 was a negative month for records of new vehicles in Italy, further declined after -2.8% in May: the Last month, new listings were 174,702, or 7.3% less than the same month last year (-13,600 units). The drop in June weighs on sales in the first half, down 1.5% to 1,120,829 units, including 1,137,299 in the first half of 2017. The figures provided by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport show as of June 30, 2018, purchases by individuals (-5.1%) and businesses and leasing companies, in both cases by more than 10%, decreased. sign that after a good start 2018 will be a difficult year for new car sales

BOOM OF JEEP – The situation remains a lot negative for the mark Fiat which sold 30.65% last month and rose from 40,357 units in June 2017 to 27,988 in June 2018. The decline is also sustained in the budget from January to June 2018 (-18.83%). In contrast, Volkswagen, which gained 21.02% and went from 13.277 to 16.068 units, "pulling" Renault (-7.66%, 13,291 cars) in third place and Ford in fourth place (-6.14 %), 11,558 units). Quinta Opel, which sells only 0.10% compared to June 2017 (from 8,993 to 8,984 cars), while Peugeot gained 9.32% and increased from 8,153 to 8,913 registrations. The only consolation for the FCA comes from the Jeep, which leapt to ninth place for cars sold which nearly doubled in June 2017: from one year to the next, it has increased by 91.72% (to 7,713 cars).

SECOND – The FCA remains by far the best-performing group in Italy in June, down 19.16% (with 43,642 cars). Sales since the beginning of the year amounted to 304,566 units (-9.07%). In June, the Volkswagen was the second group, with 27,751 units (+ 16.13%), but had to settle for third place in the six-month period behind the FCA and PSA : the manufacturer The French registered 170 154 cars on June 30, about 8 000 more than the German group. The best-selling model remains the Fiat Panda, ahead of the Renault Clio and the Fiat 500X. Finally, it should be noted that sales of diesel cars decreased by 17% in June 2018 compared to the same month of last year, as a result of a trend that becomes systematic.