Car Transport to Italy, One Exceptional Car at a Time

UK to Italy: one car, one crew, all the way

Most cars that travel from Britain to Italy do so on a multi-car transporter, sharing a deck with four, six or eight other vehicles, loaded and unloaded at depots and often passed between drivers and sub-contractors along the way. Every one of those touchpoints is a moment where a low front splitter can catch a ramp, where a strap can be rushed, or where a car sits unattended in a yard. For an ordinary vehicle that is an acceptable trade for a low price. For a supercar, a concours classic or a car you simply care about, it is not.

SKORTA runs a single dedicated movement. Your car is the only car on the trailer, collected by one crew who stay with it the entire way to Italy and hand it back themselves at the far end. There are no depots, no overnight yards you cannot see and no sub-contracting — the people who load your car in Britain are the people who unload it in Milan or Modena. That continuity is the whole point: one set of hands, one signed record and one line of accountability from your door to the destination.

Our capability is deliberately modest — one tow vehicle and a choice of two trailers — because the service is built around carrying one car properly rather than many cars cheaply.

Enclosed or open: matching the trailer to the journey

The trailer choice matters more on a long continental run than it does on a short domestic hop. An enclosed trailer — sealed, weatherproof and fully out of sight, in the manner of a Brian James RT7 — keeps motorway grit, stone chips, weather and prying eyes away from the car for the full length of France and the Alpine crossing. For low-mileage classics, freshly detailed supercars, or any car where paint and discretion are the priority, enclosed is usually the right answer.

An open aluminium tilt-bed is lighter, quicker to load and gives the crew full sight of the car throughout. It is a sound choice for robust modern vehicles, EVs and cars heading to a track weekend where a stone chip is not the end of the world. The honest trade-off is exposure: on a long Italian run the car meets whatever the weather and the road throw at it. We will talk through which makes sense for your car and your route rather than defaulting to the dearer option.

Whichever you choose, the car is secured the same way — soft straps over the tyres and wheels, never ratcheted across the bodywork or suspension — so nothing bears load through the panels or the paint.

Where in Italy we go: Milan, Modena, Como, Florence, Rome

Italy is where a great many of the world's finest cars are made, shown and driven, and the destinations we serve reflect that. Milan anchors the north for auctions, design and fashion events, and as a gateway to the lakes. Modena and Maranello are the heartland — factory collections and deliveries, marque specialists, and cars going out for recommissioning or a rally. Lake Como draws the concours crowd each spring, not least for the Concorso d'Eleganza at Villa d'Este, where arriving quietly and immaculately matters as much as the car itself.

Further south, Florence and Tuscany host classic rallies, private estates and events across the hills, while Rome and the surrounding region round out the routes we cover. Whether the car is a modern supercar bound for a driving event, a classic being taken to a concours, or a prestige saloon joining a collection, the movement is planned around the address and the date that matter to you — kerbside collection and delivery, not the nearest depot.

Across the Channel and over the Alps

The route to Italy begins with the Channel. We cross by the short Dover–Calais ferry or via the Eurotunnel shuttle, with the car and crew travelling together, and then run south and east through France before the Alps stand between the vehicle and northern Italy. Depending on the destination and conditions, that means one of the great road tunnels — the Mont Blanc or the Fréjus — or a pass when the weather allows.

The Alpine leg is the part of car transport to Italy that rewards experience. Winter brings snow, chains and closures; summer brings heat and heavy tourist traffic; and a laden trailer behaves differently on a long descent than an empty one. Planning the crossing, the timing and the rest stops around all of that is ordinary work for us, and one of the reasons a single dedicated crew is worth having on this route rather than a driver swapping a shared load at a border.

Paperwork: the post-Brexit realities

Post-Brexit, moving a car between Great Britain and Italy is a customs movement, and the paperwork is real rather than a formality. Cross-border road transport travels under a CMR consignment note — the international document that records the sender, the carrier, the vehicle and its condition at handover, and which follows the car across each frontier. It is the backbone of an honest international move and sits alongside the car's own registration and ownership documents.

Whether your movement is a temporary trip — a car going out to an event or a track weekend and returning to the UK — or a permanent export changes what is required, from temporary admission arrangements to full export and import formalities. The specifics depend on the car, the reason for travel and the current rules, so the crew confirms exactly what is needed for your particular movement before collection. [CUSTOMS AND CARNET REQUIREMENTS TO CONFIRM PER MOVEMENT]. What we will not do is wave the paperwork away as unimportant; getting it right is part of the service.

Care, proof of condition and discretion

At collection, before the car moves, the crew records a signed photographic condition report — a dated set of images and notes describing the car exactly as it stands. The same is done at delivery in Italy, so that you and the receiving party have a clear, shared record of the car's condition at each end of the journey. On an international move, that quiet piece of documentation removes a great deal of ambiguity.

Throughout, the car is handled as little as possible and secured only by soft straps over the tyres. Discretion is a standing part of the service: an enclosed trailer keeps the car out of sight, and we do not discuss clients, cars or addresses. Goods-in-transit and liability cover for a car of this value is a fair question to ask, and we will set it out plainly — [INSURANCE COVER TO CONFIRM] — rather than quote a figure we cannot stand behind here.

Planning your move and getting an estimate

Italy runs to a calendar. Spring brings the Lake Como concours season and the Modena and Maranello events; the design and auction weeks fill Milan; and summer fills the roads and the Alpine tunnels. The earlier a movement is booked around those dates, the more calmly it can be planned, though we will always try to help with shorter notice where the schedule allows. [LEAD TIME TO CONFIRM].

Pricing depends on the exact addresses, the trailer you choose, the season and the timing, so rather than publish a figure that could mislead, we invite you to get an indicative estimate using the on-site calculator. It gives a realistic sense of cost in a moment; a fixed written quotation is then confirmed by the crew before collection, once the details of your car and route are settled. If Italy is one leg of a wider trip, our European car transport and car transport to Switzerland pages cover the neighbouring routes.