Soaring costs for car maintenance and repairs in Arezzo. In just one year, from 2022 to 2023, there was an increase of almost 20% with the entire provincial expenditure going from 210.1 to 251.5 million euros. Over 41 million more in the space of just 12 months. A boom due in part to the increase in activity certified by the workshops but also, obviously, to the galloping inflation.
The regional overview
However, what happened in Arezzo follows a national and regional trend. In 2023, motorists in Tuscany spent over 3 billion euros to maintain and repair their cars. Compared to 2022, the amount spent in the region grew by 21.2%. The province of Florence is the one that recorded the greatest increase in spending in 2023 (+23.5%), followed by Pistoia (+20.5%), Lucca (+20.3%), Prato (+20% ), Massa Carrara and Pisa (+19.9%). The data comes from a study byAutopromotec Observatory.
The national situation
“At a national level in 2023, 42.5 billion euros were spent on the maintenance and repair of cars. Compared with 2022, when the outlay was 35.3 billion, the expenditure incurred by Italians for interventions of workshops and repairs on their cars grew by 20.6%. In 2023, spending on the maintenance and repair of cars in Italy grew significantly for the third consecutive year. The causes of this increase – explains a note – are to be found not only in the high levels of workshop activities, estimated to increase by 13% on an annual basis, but also in the growing inflation, in fact, during 2023 for maintenance and repair activities of vehicles grew by 4.9% on an annual basis, after the negative years of 2020 and 2021, in which spending on car maintenance and repairs fell well below 30 billion euros. the outlay estimated by the Autopromotec Observatory in 2023 has risen to maximum levels, levels that are unprecedented in recent years”.
