If the statistics don’t lie, more than 13 thousand Ferraris were sold in 2023, with almost 6 billion in revenues for the Prancing Horse. Which means more than a thousand custom-built cars per month (on average 1,138), while, taking last April as an example, Stellantis sold one hundred electric 500s on the domestic market. It seems like a paradox, but in reality there is much more demand for these supercars, the least expensive model of which costs more than 250 thousand euros, compared to the 500 which powered Italy in the years of the economic boom. And there is a reason: electric vehicles are overpriced and do not offer sufficient guarantees of mobility, also due to the insufficient charging network in the city and on the motorway.
Therefore we note that in our country there are at least a thousand Scrooges who love high speed and who invest in Made in Italy and we note, perhaps with regret, that the “normal” market wants something else: average prices, petrol engines (also diesel), and at most hybrids. On the other hand, Stellantis also demonstrates this by bringing another 500 model with a hybrid engine back to Mirafiori. But from 2026. In this regard, Acea, the association of European car manufacturers, releasing the sales data relating to last April, reveals that in Europe the largest share of the market went to petrol-powered cars (36 %), The hybrid Hev is second with 29%, while the diesel is at 12.9%. Electric cars are the last ones which, however, are much more widespread than in Italy (11% market share) compared to our 2.3 percent, a drop of one and a half points compared to the first months of 2023. The sign of an industrial flop that , considering the example of Mirafiori, has caused serious damage to the automotive sector and to workers’ pockets.
