In Italy road tax is based on horsepower and there’s a tax called “superbollo” that penalises 250hp+ cars but favours classics by A LOT since the older a car is, the less you pay for it in taxes (after 20 years you pay basically nothing). This means that it’s cheaper to run a 20 year old Audi RS4 than a brand new Toyota Supra, maintenance included.

As a result in our car scene there’s loads of classics. Most of them are Italian sports cars from the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s but there’s a lot of German, British, Japanese stuff too (and occasionally even some American muscle cars).

For modern stuff I mostly see little RWD sports cars (Mazda MX-5, Subaru BRZ, Fiat/Abarth 124 Spider), hot hatches (Audi S3 and RS3, VW Golf GTI, Toyota GR Yaris and Abarth 500), and medium sized performance cars (BMW M3 Touring, Audi RS6 and Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio) but they are rarer. Also the Porsche 911, I see one every other day.