1.9%
April’s rise to just under 120,000 units

Widely seen as the first encouraging signs of hope for Italy’s long-battered car market, where last year’s car sales slumped to a 34-year low of just 1.3 million cars, April saw the fifth successive month of rising sales. 

April’s 1.9 per cent rise to just under 120,000 units brings the cumulative gain after five successive
months of unbroken car sales growth to 5 per cent, with sales edging up to almost half-a-million units. 

With the prospect of brighter skies on the horizon, following more than half-a-decade of severe belt-tightening, Italy’s car buying public appears to have rediscovered its appetite for new cars...more