On January 2, the Italian automobile manufacturers association (ANFIA) announced that passenger car registrations of 124,438 units in December increased 13.1% over the same month in 2015.
Total sales in 2016 totaled 1,824,968 units, a 15.8% increase from that of 2015.
Domestic brands in Italy showed an increase in sales of 14.6% in December with a 29.5% market share, while foreign manufacturers showed a 12.4% increase and 70.5% market share.
For all of 2016, domestic brand sales increased 18.5% to 531,210 units, with a 29.1% market share, and foreign brand sales increased 14.8% to 1,293,758 units, with a 70.9% market share.
In December, Fiat brand registrations increased 12.9% (21.4% market share), Renault registrations increased 3.9% (6.6% share), Volkswagen brand registrations increased 22.6% (8.1% share), Ford registrations increased 10.3% (5.9% share), Opel registrations increased 18.7% (4.9% share), and Peugeot registrations increased 1.4% (4.6% share) from a year ago.
The foreign car distributors association (UNRAE) announced that diesel passenger car sales in December increased 18.7% (59.0% share), gasoline-powered car sales increased 11.2% (30.0% share), hybrid cars (HV) increased 49.6% (2.7% share), and electric vehicle (EV) sales increased 70.4% (0.2% share).
Private car sales in December increased 8.3% to 81,905 units (63.5% share), fleet sales increased 14.1% to 17,413 units (13.5% share), and business sales increased 40.2% to 29,643 units (23.0% share).

(ANFIA release from January 2, 2017) (UNRAE release from January 2, 2017)