When highly effective financial headwinds blow in, nationwide governments start to fret concerning the dedication of main industrial operations to their nation. And in Italy, the brand new right-wing, populist authorities of Georgia Meloni is, not surprisingly, frightened about Fiat. Now a part of the worldwide behemoth that’s Stellantis, Fiat is now not solely Italian.
The 600, and its outgoing predecessor the five hundred, are made in Poland, together with a Jeep and an Alfa Romeo sibling for the 600, the primary quantity Alfa Romeo to be made outdoors Italy. In the meantime, the deliberate restoration within the Lancia model will contain manufacturing in Spain and France, as properly in Italy, after a interval of the model being restricted to only one mannequin, the Ypsilon, made in Poland. And, having been made in Turkey for a few years, the small Doblo van is now made in Spain, on a Stellantis platform. The subsequent Panda, an all-electric mannequin, will seemingly be made in Serbia, though the inner combustion engine (ICE) model will stay for just a few years but in Italy. The ICE Panda is made in Pomigliano d’Arco in southern Italy alongside the Alfa Romeo Tonale and its sibling the Dodge Hornet which is exported in the primary again to the US. Fiat’s Italian operations have already got a global dimension.
