Car production in Italy fell to 700,000 units in 2022
- The volume of PC+UV production made in Italy fell to 700,000 units in 2022, compared to 800,000 in 2020 and 2021, and 1 million in 2018. But the production volume in Italy still exceeded 1.3 million in 2007.
- This once prosperous producing country, when Fiat was the second European carmaker behind Volkswagen and when Fiat had not yet decided to relocate a large part of its production, particularly in Poland and Serbia, suffered the brunt of the various decisions that have sacrificed many of its plants, such as Mirafiori which was one of the largest European plants in the 1960s or Termini which was closed in 2011. The decisions to let the Fiat Punto (B-segment sedan) end without being replaced, to relocate Fiat C-segment sedans to Turkey, to let the Lancia brand declining or to fail to restart the Alfa-Roméo brand have a great impact on the entire Italian automotive industry.
- While Italian production had fallen to its lowest point in 2013 and 2014 (650,000 cars produced per year), the Fiat group decided to relocate production of the Fiat Panda to Italy and by establishing production of the Jeep Renegade there. These decisions allowed Italian production to rise to 1,000,000 units in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. The fall in the Italian market in 2020, 2021 and 2022 caused Italian production to drop again (-500,000 cars per year ) over the past three years.
- The Stellantis group, which today represents 84% of Italian production, will have to ensure that it establishes a significant production of electric cars in Italy so that this country remains a significant automobile producer.