The industrial production of cars in Italy collapses. According to the raw index surveyed by Istat, in the month of April the decline was 14,9% year over year, while the decline in the first four months of 2013, again on a trend basis, reached 10%.
The index corrected for the effects of the calendar, on the other hand, shows an annual drop of 18,1% in April, and of 10,9% on average for the first four months of the year.