FIAT Pandina will remain in production until 2030

Pandina can stay.

Not 2026 or 2028, but until 2030 even. Carlos Tavares was the first person in Italy to personally announce this week that the current FIAT Panda will remain in production for 6 more years. The idea, well thought out by Marchionne’s FCA in 2012, which was linked to the modernization of the Pomigliano d’Arco factory, will be on the market for 18 years until he retires. Now understand why the Panda, which has recently been renamed Pandina because the new Panda will be presented soon, has not yet had a major cosmetic overhaul. That is yet to come. The Pandina will receive several updates until 2030 and will play the role of an affordable alternative as an MHEV. It is not a forced idea, because the Panda still sells very well and continues to break records in the Italian home market.

Leaving Italy is ‘fake news’.

Tavares promises to invest millions in the Neapolitan factory where the Alfa Romeo Tonale and Dodge Hornet are also produced. The general strategic plan has 15 examples. Expansion of 500 production in Mirafiori we already wrote about it yesterday. There are also brand new varieties such as Cassino and Melfi. Italy will even be the first home of STLA’s big stage. Tavares arrived at the presentation in Milano to say that the great flow of bad news in Italy from politics and the media can actually be called ‘fake news’. Geographical and industrial changes mean that less predictable strategic choices can now be made, such as maintaining existing structures or introducing a different type of production. On the one hand, Tavares understands that, but he does not understand the idea that production in Italy will be gradually dismantled. He warns that if the Italian government decides to allow the Chinese producer to set foot on the ground, other strategic choices may be made with the loss of jobs.