Stellantis vehicle production in Italy in free fall
On the other side of the Alps, the Italian-French-American automotive group is experiencing a serious production crisis and is posting the "worst results in its history." The government's inaction is also to blame, accuses the opposition media outlet "Il Fatto Quotidiano."
The promise was made less than two years ago, but a geological era seems to have passed since then. In early 2024, Carlos Tavares, then CEO of Stellantis , assured the Italian Minister of Industry, Adolfo Urso, that the automotive group, which includes Fiat and PSA, could produce one million vehicles in the peninsula by 2030. Theoretically, there is still time to achieve this goal, but in light of the latest figures, it increasingly looks like “an impossible dream,” Il Fatto Quotidiano concludes , or even “a chimera.” And for good reason.
In total, 265,490 vehicles left the Italian Stellantis factories in 2024, a decline of 31.5% compared to the previous year. “This is the worst result in its history,” sums up the left-wing media lapidarily, which is not without consequences for the job market.
According to the daily, in fact, “ nearly half of the group’s workforce is affected by social measures [such as partial unemployment, for example]”, which pushes Il Fatto Quotidiano to unleash another sentence with apocalyptic tones:
“The Italian automotive sector is dying.”
Whose fault is it? For this media hostile to the government there is no doubt: “Giorgia Meloni wanted to add to the title of the Ministry of Enterprise 'and Made in Italy', but faced with the difficulties of our industry, she prefers to bury her head in the sand.”
"The latest report from the Fim-Cisl union shows that Italian factories produced 151,430 cars between January and September 2025, a 36.3% decrease compared to the same period in 2024," the Roman newspaper reports. As for vehicles for professionals, things are hardly better, with production falling by "only" 23.9% (114,060 units manufactured).
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