Inovev forecasts 150,000 units per year of the new Fiat Grande Panda
- The Stellantis Group unveiled the new Fiat Panda, renamed Grande Panda because of its increased dimensions (from 3.65 m to 3.99 m), thus abandoning the A-segment in favor of the B-segment like the Citroën C3, based on the same Smart Car platform (also used by the recent Citroën C3 Aircross and Opel Frontera). This platform was developed for the Stellantis group's low-cost models, to compete with the Renault group's Dacia models.
- The new Fiat Grande Panda (which will marketed alongside the current Panda) will be produced in Serbia at the Kragujevac site (a former Zastava site taken over by Fiat in 2012), and not in Italy like the current Panda.
- The new model is visually more different from the recent Citroën C3 than might have been expected. In fact, it takes up some of the aesthetic themes of the first Fiat Panda, launched in 1980. Slightly shorter than the Citroën C3 (3.99 m vs. 4.01 m), it uses the same engines, a 100 hp (73.5 kW) 48V mild-hybrid petrol unit and a 113 hp (83 kW) electric motor with 44 kWh battery. The range of the battery electric version will be similar to that of the Citroën C3 and Citroën C3 Aircrosswith the same motor and LFP battery, i.e. 320 km according to the WLTP cycle.
- Inovev forecasts 150,000 units a year of the new Fiat Grande Panda, including 40% electric versions, by 2030.