Unrae, 26 years in Italy to replace cars in circulation - Industry and Analysis. Almost a quarter of the fleet in circulation is pre-Euro 4 with an average age of 12.5 years.
With the size of the current market around 1.6 million it would take 26 years to replacing them. For the car market "in the next few years we do not see a return to 2 million registrations, we see 1.8 million but no more", says Andrea Cardinali of Unrae.