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No One Is Buying the New Fiat 500 (www.motor1.com)
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Things aren't looking great for Stellantis. Sales for the company's Dodge and Jeep brands in America are cratering, and its overseas brands aren't doing much better. Adding to the bad news, Stellantis announced today it will extend its suspension of production for the all-electric Fiat 500 until November 1 over low demand.

The company originally stopped production of the 500 on September 12, planning to idle the car's Mirafiori, Italy plant for four weeks. Now, that stoppage has been extended by another three weeks.

The decision, Reuters reports, comes alongside a statement given to trade unions claiming the electric car market in Europe is "in deep trouble."

(Fiat never seems to learn they keep creating these cars with such limited range.)

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the electric car market in Europe is “in deep trouble.”

Stellantis doesn't really have any attractive offerings IMO, among all their popular European brands Peugeot, Citroen, FIAT and Opel, they don't have a single model in the top 20 here!!
All these brands used to be very popular in Denmark, but EV has passed 50%, and everything Stelantis EV simply sucks, they have too little range and are too expensive. AFAIK every Stelantis of the 4 above brands are based on the same platform, and the same battery, and it's simply not good enough.

But it's not just Stelantis, even Toyota is out of top 10, their best seller is a petrol/benzin car at #12. The worlds biggest automaker only has 2 models in top 20, And none among EV top 10.

What's really out is hybrids, the top selling hybrid only sell half of the lowest on the top 20!

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Huh, ihadno idea Opel (and Vauxhaul) left GM in 2017 and became part of Stellantis in 2021. Weird

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Technically it was sold to PSA, which became part of Stellantis in 2021 when they merged with Fiat-Chrysler.