Subiect: Fiat 500 SUV si Jeep copilul lua lumina verde

Complet re-construirea de Melfi facilitate (care va vedea 500 roboţi de sudare noi, un nou magazin de vopsea, nou panou ştampilarea facilităţi şi noua zonă de asamblare) va permite în cele din urmă până la 1600 vehicule trebuie construită pe un model de trei-shift. Fiat spune că noi linii de producţie va fi suficient de flexibil pentru a construi patru modele, astfel încât un alt model bazat pe 500L pare a fi programul pentru 2016.

800m investment at Fiat's Melfi plant will see new models arrive in early 2014. The new Fiat 500X SUV and a new baby Jeep SUV will start production in early 2014 as part of a 810m investment at the Melfi factory, the company announced today.
The move marks the first big boost in Fiats plan to move away from building mass-market cars in Western Europe and towards upmarket models with higher profit margins.
The first model off the line will be the new Jeep. Only available with all-wheel drive, it will be sold worldwide, with Melfi the only production source. After the 500X, a third model will be added in 2015 to replace the ageing Punto, though it will not be a conventional supermini and is intended to command a more premium price. All three models are based on Fiats new Small Wide platform, which currently underpins the 500L MPV.
The complete re-building of the Melfi facility (which will see 500 new welding robots, a new paint shop, new panel stamping facilities and new assembly area) will eventually allow up to 1600 vehicles to be built on a three-shift pattern. Fiat says that the new production lines will be flexible enough to build four models, so another 500L-based model looks to be on schedule for 2016.
Fiat says that it will introduce 19 made-in-Italy models by 2106. Aside from the four compact models at Melfi, there will also be nine new Alfa Romeos and six Maseratis. Fiats budget models - the Panda and smaller 500 models - will eventually be made outside Western Europe where build costs are lower. The 500L is already made in Serbia, at what was the Zastava plant.