- The Chinese joint venture Fiat-Chrysler withChinesecarmaker GAC (Guangzhou Automotive Corporation) is in the process of making an investment of nearly 600 million euros in Canton (Guangzhou)to build a plant with a production capacity of 160 000 vehicles per year.
- Fiat wouldproduce off-road as well as cars withlowconsumption (small cars and electric cars), categories of high sale potential by manufacturers in China.
- The Italian group has already a production site in China, Changsha (Hunan province of China), where are manufacturedViaggio sedans (segment C). Fiat produced 13,505 units in the plant in 2012 (against 0 in 2011) and 25,507 in the first eightmonths of 2013, which corresponds to a rate of 40,000 throughout the year.
- Let us recallthat in this plant in Changsha, Fiat plans to produce Jeep cars. It couldbe the recent Cherokee unveiledthissummer, or a smaller Jeep derivedfrom the 500 X which are to beunveiled in 2014.
- According to ourlatest information, future Jeep modelswillbeassembled in the factory in Changsha and wouldsharetheirplatformwith the Fiat Viaggio, whichmightsuggestthatthiswouldbe the recent Cherokee.
- For now, Chrysler Group cars are not produced in China.