The 2 new fashions will likely be constructed on the identical Good Automobile platform because the Grande Panda to facilitate vital price advantages over opponents. Each hybrid and electrical variations are anticipated to be provided.

The SUV will likely be a direct rival for the Dacia Bigster and has the perfect potential for achievement in Europe.

The Manufacturing Fastback is an oblique successor to the Tipo as an elevated Volkswagen golf -sized hatchback and is anticipated by Fiat to do nicely within the international markets – however Europe will nonetheless be a magnet for the automobile, given the massive elevate in visible Attraction over the Tipo.

François stated that no Fiat will likely be longer than 4.5 m as a ‘self-limiting’ rule imposed by the model to stop it from overlapping with different Stellantis-Marques, particularly Citroën. “If we go into the C phase, we may have a totally completely different perspective that’s proper: not higher, not worse, however our Italian smile and with our colours,” he stated.

Inside Stellantis, François stated that even at a worldwide govt degree is requested “whether or not we want all these manufacturers, and all these fashions for all these manufacturers”. However “We want issues to enrich one another and we now have to finish the puzzle and occupy each area”.

He stated that the deliberate transfer from Fiat to the underside of the C-segment is supplementary, however would get larger and make a automobile as massive because the Citroën C5 Aircross, which might give Stellantis ‘good synergies’ with shared architectures, However ‘poor a poor complement’ as a result of the vehicles would compete.

Punto within the wings

François stated one of many first issues he did when he took over as CEO of Fiat in 2011 was to cancel a deliberate successor to the Punto. “It was good, however not tremendous iconic,” he stated, including that it had simply an opportunity of success in Europe, not in Fiat’s different world markets corresponding to South America and Africa.

As an alternative, he wished a ‘automobile that could possibly be worldwide’ and ‘massive volumes’, and it was utility autos and never superminis that had international attraction. Therefore the creation of the Grande Panda, a type of elevated hatchback/shrunken SUV that has been in François’s head since he canceled the Punto. But it surely took the arrival of François Leboine of Renault/Dacia in 2021 to understand the design.