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Auto: -97.5% registrations in Italy in April

2020-05-04T18:26:28.145Z


FCA: -96.3% sales at 37.9% (ANSA)


Only 4,279 cars were sold in April in Italy, with a drop of 97.55% compared to the same month in 2019. In the first four months of the year, registrations totaled 351,611, 50.69% less than similar period last year. The data are from the Ministry of Transport.

FCA, -96.3% sales in April, share 37.9%
In April, FCA sold 1,620 cars in Italy, 96.3% less than in the same month in 2019. The share is 37.9% (+ 12.6%). In the first four months of the year, the group's registrations were 87,504, down 50.39% compared to the same period last year. The share is 24.89% (+ 0.15%). Fiat brands grew in April (22.65% share, + 5.7%); Jeep (9.2% share, + 5.5%), Alfa Romeo (3.4% share, + 2.2%). Lancia obtains a 2.55% share. Among the top ten of the best-selling cars in the month, in addition to the first Panda, there are also the Fiat 500X and Tipo and the Jeep Compass and Renegade. In the first four months of the year, positive signs for the Fiat and Lancia brands, which respectively achieved shares of 16.3% (+0.6 percentage points) and 3.7%, equal to a growth of 0.25 percentage points. There are five FCA models in the top ten of the best-selling cars of the quarter: the Fiat Panda, 500 and 500X, the Lancia Ypsilon and the Jeep Renegade. Also in the first four months of the year, the results of numerous FCA models should be reported. Fiat Panda and 500 are at the top of their segment, the first with a 51.7% share, the second with 13.4%. Lancia Ypsilon is the best-selling in the B segment with a 16.1% share, Fiat Tipo is at the top of the C segment (15%) just as they are in their Fiat 500X category (with a 12.2% share), Jeep Renegade (12%) and Fiat 500L (35.4%). Alfa Romeo Stelvio is confirmed among the best three in its segment with a 10.2% share as well as Jeep Compass with 8.6% share.

Promotor, urgent shock therapy with scrapping incentives
"If you consider that the April registrations are worth about 9% of those of an entire year, projecting the data over an entire year, you get a volume similar to that of 1949 when the registrations were 48,883 Obviously the April figure, like that of March (-85.42%), is due to the coronavirus emergency ". The Promotor Study Center underlines this. "The dealers have reopened today - he explains - but the path to return to normal is long and bumpy, as emerges from the confidence of operators in the sector. This indicator has collapsed from 33.3 in January to 3.6 in April, also if a little support may come from the fact that people have understood that the safest way to limit the infection is the private car. " "To return to normal - observes Gian Primo Quagliano, president of the Centro Studi Promotor - it takes shock therapy as it also emerges at European level. Of great interest is the opening to incentives for scrapping even with the purchase of new cars Traditionally powered, by the Vice-President of the European Commission and climate commissioner Frans Timmermans. An incisive scrapping campaign cannot only concern the replacement of old cars with zero-emission cars because the conditions for widespread diffusion do not currently exist electric car ladder ". Quagliano recalls that Italy "has a very effective experience of incentives for scrapping: that of 1997 when those who scrapped a car over 10 years old and purchased a new car received a bonus from the state doubled with a bonus of equal size mandatory recognized by the seller. The results were an increase in registrations of 38.8% already in 1997 and higher revenue for the Treasury ".

Unrae, supply chain on its knees, government accelerates
"The official April data unfortunately confirm what we anticipated since the beginning of the crisis. The necessary and severe measures to contain the contagion have slowed its spread, but the blockade of economic activities has put the automotive distribution chain is knee-high, with 1,400 companies supporting 160,000 families ". This is the comment of Michele Crisci, president of Unrae, the association of foreign car manufacturers "The reopening takes place - continues Crisci - with very severe restrictions on the circulation still in force, and with a strongly weakened demand from families and businesses. from liquidity crisis after 2 months of zeroed revenues, many of the dealers may not survive despite the reopening, so we renew the appeal to the banking system because the huge resources made available by the Liquidity Decree are promptly disbursed to companies in the auto sector. the need for an acceleration by the government is evident, with specific measures for the automotive sector. It is a strategic sector for the country, with its multiplying effect on the economy and its contribution to tax revenues of approximately 80 billion euro per year With the resumption of activities in Phase 2, the role of the automobile will be even more central Mobility, not only within large centers, but also among commuters, intercity and motorway ". Unrae calls on the government "to promptly adopt concrete measures to support the car industry".

Anfia, 361,000 registrations lost in two months
In the two months of March-April, 361,000 registrations were lost compared to the same period of 2019, with a drop of 51%. Anfia emphasizes this. "The 'phase 2' of gradual reopening of production and commercial activities has the 50 most difficult days of the Second World War for our economy behind us," said President Paolo Scudieri. Market data for April are those of a stationary market, as was to be expected. What matters most is to focus on a rapid restart, given that the reopening of dealers alone is certainly not enough to restart the market, and, with it, the automotive production chain. "Anfia asks the government" to provide for measures to support demand, which is necessary today also for the resumption of production activities. On the other hand, the same Minister of Economic Development Stefano Patuanelli had announced, in the first days of March, before the lockdown, the arrival of new incentives to encourage the replacement of the cars in circulation with 10 and more years of seniority, to improve levels of emissions and give oxygen to the sector. Our proposals focus on an increase in the Ecobonus 2020 fund to continue the incentive for Bev and Phev cars and the provision of an extension of the bonus to alternative fuel cars with CO2 emissions from 61 to 95 g / km. Furthermore, given the considerable number of cars accumulated in stock by dealers and manufacturers during the lockdown, to prevent their disposal blocking the restart of production and to give an immediate boost to the resumption of sales at a time when consumer confidence is low, we believe an incentive to purchase cars in stock produced before the lockdown can be very effective ".

Source: ansa

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