The data on production industrial of April 2025, released by Istat, they report that the end of the car market crisis in Italy seems to be still far away. In a year the index that measures the number and value of the motor vehicles Produced in our country, it has reduced by 9.5%, with economic data indicating that the drop is continuing after the first quarter.
The hopes of the sector are entrusted to the far most important company in our country, Stellantis, and above all to the resumption of the production of 500 hybrids in the plant Mirafiorifrom which another 610 employees will be left.
The production of motor vehicles in Italy collapses
The data Istat relating to the month of April 2025 identify the automotive as one of the most difficult sectors. Compared to the same month of 2024, the production of motor vehicles in our country it dropped by 9.5%. This is not an isolated data or the consequence of statistical alterations.
The comparison with the period January -April of 2024 is also characterized by a decrease in production, even more accentuated than the only data relating to April: -11.2%. Istat data then reveal that not only the sector is not recovering from the years of crisis, but that this It does not seem to be over yet.
The conjunctural data in fact continue to report serious drops in the production of motor vehicles. Between March and April, the index that the measure is drop of 1.1%. Extending the comparison between the first months of 2025 and the last of 2024 the figure attenuates, with a drop of 0.4%, but remains negative.
The hopes of the “Italian Plan” of Stellantis
Although in Italy there are many active brands in the production of motor vehicles, are those of the holding exor, of the Agnelli-Elkann family, to decree the trend of the sector. Ferrari, Iveco and above all Stellantis They represent a very high percentage of the vehicles produced in Italy.
For this reason, the Italy Plan, presented by Stellantis to the government of Giorgia Meloni, represents the main hope of the sector to end the crisis and try a recovery. Recently, the star of Stellantis for Europe Jean-Philippe Imparato spoke of a possible update of this plan by June:
In June there will be an update of the Italy Plan. We launched 14 models between the second semester of 2024 and the first part of 2025 with various feeds. My challenge today is not to launch more machines, but to have the right engines, developing above all hybrids and range extenders. Out of 2.5 million cars that we sell in Europe the hybrid represents more than 60%
610 Employees via da Mirafiori
The confirmation of Stellantis’ will to focus on the hybrid also came from the announcement of the return of combustion engines to Mirafiori, after a short parenthesis of almost exclusively electric production. From November 2025 the Turin plant should begin to produce the 500 hybridat a rhythm of 100 thousand units per year.
Despite this, however, on 9 June the group announced that he had reached an agreement for 610 Voluntary exits mainly precisely from the Mirafiori plant. According to the company, the exits would be aimed at optimizing the workforce in view of the start of the production of the 500 hybrid, but the unions ask for new hires of young people precisely because of the start of the assembly of the new model.
