Stellantis, new model for Mirafiori. Belloni: “We are working on it”. Filosa: “Help is needed”

PARIS – There will be a second model produced in Mirafiori. There are still no precise indications regarding the times and methods, although it could arrive before 2030. The new number one of Fiat, Lancia and Abarth, Arnauld Belloni, is open to the hypothesis of another car at the body shops of the historic Turin factory. "It's too early, but I don't want to lie - he replies during a meeting with international journalists at the Paris Motor Show - there will be a second model in addition to the current one. We are working on it very seriously". Times? “We can expect this within the 2030 plan.”

A way to respond to the requests of unions and institutions that ask for attention regarding various Stellantis factories in Italy. One is Cassino, where production in the first nine months was reduced to less than 9 thousand units, and the other is Mirafiori where the 500, even in the hybrid version, betrayed expectations and forecasts. The year will end below 100 thousand cars produced, it will not go above 60 thousand. And the Mirafiori employees have been forced into periods of layoffs for months due to the market trend and Teksid's engine supply problems.

Belloni, French, but the Italian family of Italian origins ("My grandparents emigrated to France from Italy"), on his debut as the new CEO of the Italian brand, shows himself to be attached to Italianness and Turin. "I go to Turin every week and we spend a lot of time with all the staff. We have two cars in mind. I know Fiat, I worked there for 11 years in Marchionne's time." On the new projects, not necessarily linked to Turin, he says that "we are working on a very small, very small, very competitive car, with the same philosophy as a 2CV, but not retro, much more modern. It will be a sexy car". And he has no doubts about Made in Italy production: "I want to build cars in Italy and I want to build cars in Turin. Fiat is Fiat thanks to Turin and Fiat is Fiat thanks to Italy".