A mid month statoholic fix

How is Abarth doing in other markets?

Well i can tell you very well. Italy is numero uno in terms of registrations which is to be expected as the passionate nation has (like in our market) a lot of 40 - 50 year olds who grew up with the 500 and the Abarth was unobtainable for them but it is available now. This has shown in the reduction of GPA registrations this year (although still a very high number the YTD to end Sept is over 1,000). Abarth provides the Italian market with an Italian company Q car alternative to the German company brands Q versions that are so strong.

Austria the home of Mr Abarth has with the A500 YTD end Sept matched the number of GPA's registered in the UK and Austria is not a big country (pop 8.3 M) so some passion showing there as well.

In fact lets stat it

Country              Population                500 reg YTD Sep 09            Head pop per A500

Austria               8,300,000                 193 (well 1 less than GPA UK)  43,005 
UK                    61,100,000                 779                                    78,433

So if you used the A500 per head of Austria that would be 1,421 registered in UK!!!

Well statoholics if Italy is numero uno who do you think is #2??

 

 

Oi, Delaney...
What's going on, 2nd November and no stats yet...?

 

Delaney:

As a non-UK resident the European stats would be very interesting. The German market statistics would be especially interesting but the other European statistics would be of interest too.

In relation to Austria there are 3 Abarth dealers in there so 193 A500s makes 64.3 A500s per dealer from Jan to Sep 09. For each dealer that means 7.1 A500s per month ie. approx. one car every three working days. I bought mine from Graz in Austria in May and the dealer in Graz seemed to be selling quite many cars abroad which I assume are not included in the Austrian stats.

How many dealers are there currently in the UK?

I can tell you some unofficial statistics too:

- No officially imported Abarth cars have been registered in any of the Nordic countries as far as I know since Abarth is not officially imported to Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark or Iceland. Some grey imports have probably been registered in some of these countries and in Finland I know two other grey import A500s besides mine. I'm not aware of any AGPs registered in here.

Delaney:

Yes you are correct in assuming that Ford is popular in here. I think that it is number 3 or 4 brand in popularity in Finland.

However the situation with Fiat Group has not been very good in recent years and the local (unpopular) Fiat/Alfa/Lancia distributor has been on a verge of bankrupty during the last few months. I think it was September when it was announced that Fiat Group has terminated their distribution agreement with that company. Last month a new distributor was announced and they have started to build up their operations. Due to this I think that there have been only very limited number of Fiat Group car registrations in Finland during the last few months.

By the way the new Fiat Group cars distributor is the Finnish distributor for Chrysler Corp. cars. Perhaps we see similar moves in other markets too in the future?

Hi Delany
Mine was officially registered on 31st October. 
Yes you're right - us girls like our red- just trying to get a handbag and shoes to match!!!!!
Capriwidow

Hmmm might be difficult to get a grey handbag with red stripes 

Come del gioco di colore

It has created more interest than the stato regulars Ad Lloyd needsmust Sawbomartin Scuderia sitar wampa etc etc.
If you are very good with stats you might be able enter the above!

So for Oct 2009

            Oct               YTD
A500     142                921
AGP        15                209

Tot Ab  157               1130

Quite amazing only 8 less A500's than last months new reg month but a lot of people had been waiting a long time for their cars.

So in respect of Come del gioco di colore i will let you know that in Oct 09 there were 18 Red A500's registered so do the maths and you should be able to work out how many have been registered YTD with an earlier comment!!!!


needsmust you think it is Germany at No 2 ! well i spent a number of hours dealing on a matter with Germany and will comment on this later in the week 'you vil be very interested'

Yes you're right - us girls like our red- just trying to get a handbag and shoes to match!!!!!
Capriwidow

...and you know what they say about girls with red shoes......................