{"id":10032,"date":"2018-01-16T16:09:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T15:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2018\/01\/giappone-andamento-positivo-del-2\/"},"modified":"2018-01-16T16:09:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T15:09:39","slug":"giappone-andamento-positivo-del","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2018\/01\/giappone-andamento-positivo-del\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Economic \u200bDiplomacy 16 January: Breaking news from the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Japan: positive trend for the automotive sector, made in italy brands also rise<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2017, thanks to the progressive recovery of its economy, Japan recorded the first comprehensive rise (after 3 years) in new car sales.<\/p>\n<p>This is the outcome of the analysis conducted by trade associations, according to which new car registrations in the Country have reached 5.2 million units, recording a 5.3% rise compared to 2016. Out of total car registrations, 9.5% is attributable to foreign brands and, in this respect, notice should be taken of the favourable positioning of Italian groups.<\/p>\n<p>FCA (Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Abarth, Jeep, Chrysler and, for the remaining part, Lancia) with 20,393 cars sold in 2016 (53% of which attributable to Italian brands), is the fifth-largest foreign group in terms of units following BMW\/Mini, Mercedes\/Smart, Volkswagen\/Bentley and Audi\/Lamborghini. Considering the constant growth over the year, the Italo-American group estimates selling a total of 22,000 units in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, the specifically Italian brands are witnessing a rise in sales both of Alfa Romeo and above all of Abarth, while Fiat remains essentially stable.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Up to now, the most positive performance has been recorded by Maserati, whose registrations reached 1,553 units over the period January-November 2017, up 41.2% from the same period of 2016. Equally positive over this same lapse of time is the performance of Ferrari (+18.4%).\u00a0A good performance was also recorded by Lamborghini (+24.2%) of the Audi-Volkswagen group, for which Japan confirms being the second-largest market after the United States.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, the value of car imports from Italy grew almost 25% compared to 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, notice should be taken of ongoing structural changes: in 2009, 96% of the cars in Japan was fuelled with petrol; in 2016 this percentage dropped to 55.8%, with steep peaks for hybrid (37.8%), diesel (5.1%) and electricity-powered (1.3%) cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan: positive trend for the automotive sector, made in italy brands also rise In 2017, thanks to the progressive recovery of its economy, Japan recorded the first comprehensive rise (after 3 years) in new car sales. This is the outcome of the analysis conducted by trade associations, according to which new car registrations in the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-10032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-diplomazia-economica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}