Car market 2016, to December still growth: +13,06% – The Republic

The car market in the uk continues to fly high: in December, with 124.438 new car, the sales have made to mark a +13,06%.

This means that the 2016 must be in an archive with a growth of 15.8% compared to the previous year: the registrations – according to data of the ministry of Transport – were 1.824.968.

in Short, a context of growth that seems infinite, as well as appears to be infinite, the recovery of the FCA: all the brands – Alfa Romeo, Jeep, Fiat and Lancia – have done better in the market: in 2016, the group’s Fca has sold in Italy 528.189 car, the 18,39% of the previous year, compared to a growth of the 15,82% of the market. So the share of the group rose from 28,31% 28,94%. And in the month of December, the registrations of cars from the Fca were 36.894, with an increase of 14.1% on the same month of 2015 (the increase to the market is the 13,06%) and the share increased from 29,38 the 29,65%.

"Even this year – says Massimo Nordio, President of unrae managing, the Association of the Houses automobilitiche foreign – the automotive industry has brought a decisive contribution to domestic consumption, stronger than in other sectors, and the recovery, although still slow, of the national economy. Throughout 2016, the turnover generated by the sector was by 36.9 billion, with the collection of VAT for the State of 6.6 billion euros."

"Looking ahead to 2017 – continue Nordio – there is still the opportunity to keep stimulated a growth which at the moment appears to be contained to the macroeconomic framework in which uncertainties remain, for comparison with the 2016 performance robust and to a certain advance of demand in the sector company in 2016, which will be reflected negatively in the first months of 2017, affecting the total demand. Still need to be addressed, ” concludes the president unrae managing – in the new year, the lack of a structured plan, and coordinated to improve air quality, especially in large cities, and the slow process of renewal of the elder, making non-postponable to the realization of that cabin with the direction of the mobility of which all feel the need, and with respect to which the unrae managing has proposed the establishment of the figure of the Mobility Champion".

“With the thirty-first monthly expansion in a row, to December, despite one working day less than in December 2015, the market is growing at a double-digit rate, by the end of that year in line with expectations,” commented Gianmarco Giorda, Director of ANFIA. For the month just ended, the volumes of registrations were not as high since 2010, when they exceeded 131.000 units”.

And for 2017? “On the forecast,” explains Pavan Bernacchi, president FederAuto, the association of dealers – we believe that the 2016, with the 1.824.968 pieces registered, has been an exceptional year, that it may be difficult to replicate”.