[andrew65]

While the rest of its big rivals struggled to make an impact in Europe last month, Fiat Group Automobiles outperformed a falling market to post a 6.5 percent year-on-year rise in sales, with all three of its major brands, Fiat, Alfa Romeo and Lancia, making healthy gains. The data for February has just been revealed by European motor manufacturer trade body ACEA.

The European-wide markets (counting the all EU member nations plus the EFTA signatories) gave up the positive start it made to the year last month, and was down 2.5 percent year-on-year in February as 1,083,511 new passenger cars and light commercial vehicles were registered, just under 30,000 less that was the case in February 2006. Fiat was boosted in particular by the fact that its domestic market was up 5.7 pct year-on-year. 223,504 new vehicles were registered in Italy during February making it the biggest European market last month as the usual European leader, Germany, slumped by 15.1 pct year-on-year after 183,258 vehicles were sold there last month. Italy was actually the only major winners as the other big new car markets also fell: France was down 1.8 pct, the UK (which sharply contracted ahead of the usual March registration plate change) lost 3.2 pct, and Spain fell 4.4 pct
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[raelorance]

Thanks a ton for your useful information and hope to read more from you. The Tofas plant boasts annual production capacity of 400,000 units and over 7,000 employees, so it is one of FIAT's most important strategic production centres worldwide.
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