The future Fiat Panda (2024) will be produced in Serbia (Kragujevac)
- The Serbian plant at Kragujevac initially belonged to the sole Yugoslav producer, Zastava. In 1954, Zastava signed an agreement with the Italian carmaker Fiat to produce Fiat vehicles under license. These vehicles gradually develop the automotive market in Yugoslavia, just as they did in Italy a few years earlier. The end of Yugoslavia began with the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and Russia in the early 1990s. The Kragujevac factory was bombed by NATO during the war in Yugoslavia at the end of the 90s, but was rebuilt in the early years of the 2000s. In 2010, the plant was bought by Fiat to produce the 500L (a 500 estate version) there between 2012 and 2022.
- While the plant ceased operations in 2022 and its future (within the new Stellantis group created in 2021 from the merger of PSA and Fiat-Chrysler) seemed uncertain, it will be in charge of producing the future Fiat Panda, scheduled for 2024. This new model, based on the CMP platform shared with the Peugeot 208, Opel Corsa and DS 3 and which will also be adopted by the future Citroën C3 and Lancia Ypsilon, will be available in both combustion and electric versions, like the models mentioned above.
- This future Panda will be 4 m long compared to 3.69 m for the current Panda and will therefore upgrade from the A to the B segment, leaving the Fiat 500 free in the A-segment and coming back in the B segment market, left empty by the old, non renewed Fiat Punto. It seems that the current Fiat Panda, which will continue to be produced in Pomigliano (southern Italy), will continue its career as an entry-level model. As with the Fiat 500, there will therefore be two Fiat Pandas.