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Alfa Romeo saw 4,102 units registered in
January to put it up 18.21 year-on-year, its
improvement partly being due to a production
stoppage during the opening two months last
year. The Alfa MiTo (above) continued to
find Italian buyers, with 1,940 units being
sold last month. |
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Italian new
vehicle registrations tumbled by 32.6 pct last month
although Fiat Group's 50,616 units meant that the
domestic carmaker outperformed the overall market's
sharp drop to raise its overall share from 31.53 to
32.15 pct year-on-year. The data has been released by
automotive trade body UNRAE. However the figures
are slightly distorted as last January Fiat's Alfa Romeo
division was beginning a two-month shutdown at its main
factory near Naples and its sales that month were 55.38
pct down on the same month the year before.
In January 2009 the Italian market saw a
total of 157,418 units registered, which was 32.64 pct down
on the same month in 2008 when 233.711 units were accounted
for.
With 50,616 units registered last month,
Fiat Group was down 31.3 pct on January 2008. With 40,072
units sold in January, the Fiat brand (including Abarth and
Fiat Professional) was down 33.73 pct year-on-year, Lancia,
with 6,293 units, was down 34.1 pct, while Alfa Romeo's
4,102 units put it up 18.21 year-on-year, its improvement
partly being due to a production stoppage during the opening
two months last year. Of the niche prestige brands Ferrari
saw 66 units registered in January while Maserati added 83
units. This all means that the Fiat brand's share of the
Italian market in January slipped very slightly from 25.87
to 25.46 pct year-on-year, Lancia went from 4.09 to 4.00
pct, although Alfa Romeo improved from 1.48 to 2.61 pct.
With 12,113
units registered the Fiat Panda was Italy's best-selling
car in January. Making it a top-three lock-out for Fiat
in Italy was the Punto/Grande Punto (10,764) in second
and the 500 (8,147) in third. In ninth place, the Lancia
Ypsilon (3,085) was the only other FGA model to make the
top-ten.
In A-segment
the Panda and 500 occupied the top-two spots last months
although the elderly Seicento continued to make its mark
with another 1,076 find Italian buyers in January to
keep it lodged just inside the segment's top-ten. In
B-segment the Punto/Grande Punto held sway, with the
Ypsilon fifth, and the Alfa Romeo's new MiTo (1,940)
eighth. In C-segment the Fiat Bravo (2,499) was fourth,
two places ahead of the new Lancia Delta (1,772), while
in D-segment the Alfa 159 (1,346) was fourth and the
Fiat Croma (1,134) sixth.
Amongst the
carrozzeria categories the Fiat Sedici (1,313) was
second best selling four wheel drive vehicle and third
in the crossover class, the Musa was second in the class
for small MPVs, the MiTo was the best selling coupé,
while the Fiat Fiorino (617) and Doblò (486) took the
top-two positions in Multispace.
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