Stellantis wants to become the world leader of utility vehicles
- The Stellantis group, which is already the European leader of the light utility vehicles market (vans with an empty weight of between 1.5 tones and 3.5 tones) ahead of the Ford and Renault groups, announced that it also wanted to become the world leader in this category.
- Today, the world leader of the light utility vehicles market is the Ford group, which benefits from this leading position thanks mainly to its large F Series pick-up which is sold at nearly 700 000 units per year (until 3,5 tones). The Stellantis group is second and the Toyota group third, also thanks mainly to their respective Ram pick-up and Toyota Hilux pick-up.
- In 2023, Ford will sell just over 1,7 million light utility vehicles (including nearly 700 000 F Series), while Stellantis is just behind will 1.7 million units (including nearly 700 000 Ram pick-ups) and Toyota 1.4 million (including nearly 0.7 million Hilux pick-ups).
- Note that in 2021, the Stellantis group had already managed to be the world's leading carmaker of light utility vehicles, but the Ford group has overtaken it again in 2022. It is therefore the objective for Stellantis to regain this first place in the world .
- A few number of LUVs separate Stellantis from Ford in 2023 and it will not be difficult for the Euro-American group to catch up with Ford, given that we should count on a possible decline of Ford. Let us recall here the current composition of the Stellantis LUV range excluding pick-ups: Citroën Berlingo, Citroën Jumpy, Citroën Jumper, Fiat Doblo, Fiat Scudo, Fiat Ducato, Opel Combo, Opel Vivaro, Opel Movano, Peugeot Partner, Peugeot Expert, Peugeot Boxer, models based on only three bodies of different segments (N1-1, N1-2, N1-3).