The new Stellantis starts again from Mirafiori. Word of Jean-Philippeprendito, head of Enlarge Europe of the Group born from the merger between FCA and PSA. The manager was interviewed by Rai Uno for the “XXI Secolo” broadcast. “Mirafiori will be developed – he said -. Mirafiori is the Fiat 500. Within a few months we will have the hybrid on the 500. I am preparing the new 500 that will arrive. The plan is about to be consolidated, but let’s not give up on Mirafiori and let’s not give up on Turin, at beyond the 500 of the future that we are preparing.” “There is no doubt – he underlined -: Mirafiori is there and will be there”.
One hundred thousand cars a year: “Mirafiori will have work”
A perspective which, according toimpresa, has a solid basis in the present. “At the moment I’m developing the hybrid like a bomb, I see something around November 2025 and then we’ll start again with 100 thousand cars a year. After that – he adds – we’ll put the future of the 500 at Mirafiori which takes me to 2032-2033, so I won’t there is no doubt, Mirafiori will have work”.
Commercial vehicles and more
But the manager, during the interview, also wanted to talk about other projects that concern the Piedmontese capital. And which go beyond the 500. “We also put the Pro One commercial vehicle organization in Italy in Mirafiori and as head of Europe I arrive and put the whole company, the European organization in Turin. So there is no doubt, Mirafiori exists and will exist”.
“I will not make promises to Urso that cannot be kept”
And Turin is the door that leads to the rest of the country: the country that Learnato will present on 17 December at Mimit, in the presence of Minister Adolfo Urso: “We consider Italy as a key point in our development, absolutely – reassured Learned -. I will give Minister Urso an industrial plan for each factory: I don’t want broken promises. For each plant there is a product.”