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Jun
25th

Fiat achieves first by selling more 500s outside Italy than in home market

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BALOCCO, Italy -- The universal appeal of the Fiat 500 has helped the 110-year company achieve a first: The automaker currently sells more units of the retro-styled minicar outside its home market than inside. Full story...
Jun
25th

Fiat achieves first, sells more 500s outside Italy than inside

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BALOCCO, Italy -- The universal appeal of the Fiat 500 has helped the 110-year company achieve a first: The automaker currently sells more units of the retro-styled minicar outside its home market than inside. Full story...
Jun
25th

Fiat first: Automaker sells more 500s outside Italy than inside

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BALOCCO, Italy -- The universal appeal of the Fiat 500 has helped the 110-year company achieve a first: The automaker currently sells more units of the retro-styled minicar outside its home market than inside. Full story...
Jun
25th

ANALYSIS: Where now for Fiat?

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Fiat lost out in the battle for Opel - and that has a knock-on effect for the group, making it harder to make for much-needed cuts in Italian capacity. Sergio Marchionne still wants a third partner - but who will it be? Mark Bursa investigates Full story...
Jun
24th

ITALY: Fiat closing farm equipment plant

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Fiat SpA is to shut its CNH Global farm equipment plant at Imola, Italy, in two years, a company spokesman said on Wednesday. Full story...
Jun
24th

ITALY: Fiat plans temporary layoffs

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Fiat SpA is to instigate temporary lay-offs at its Termini Imerese plant in Sicily, a media report said. Full story...
Jun
23rd

Fiat plans temporarily layoffs at Sicily plant

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Fiat S.p.A. plans to temporarily lay off workers at its Termini Imerese plant, near Palermo, Sicily, from July 22 to Aug. 2, a source close to the company said on Tuesday. Full story...
Jun
22nd

Fiat 500C: much more than a “window to the sky”

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Unveiled to the world for the first time at the 2009 Geneva Motor Show, the new Fiat 500C pays homage to the original 1957 Fiat 500 and its fabric roof, but also offers innovative solutions in terms of mechanical design, engines and comfort. All this in line with the most authentic Fiat tradition of giving people access to segment firsts in content and technology. Full story...
Jun
19th

Chrysler shakes up engineering staff under Fiat

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Under new leadership from Fiat, Chrysler Group LLC has named seven executives to key positions in a shakeup of the engineering department. Full story...
Jun
19th

Fiat seeks support for plan to save jobs in Italy

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Fiat S.p.A. called on Italy's government and unions to back its efforts to maintain jobs while cutting output in the country. The automaker also secured a commitment from Rome on Thursday for investment near two plants that could face cuts. Full story...
Jun
18th

ITALY: Fiat to stop Lancia production in Sicily

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Fiat will stop making the Lancia Ypsilon at its Termini Imerese plant in Sicily from 2011, CEO Sergio Marchionne told Italian government and union officials today. Full story...
Jun
18th

ITALY: Fiat meets with unions and government

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Fiat will maintain its workforce at current levels provided that was financially sustainable, chief executive Sergio Marchionne said on Thursday at a meeting between the automaker, Italian government and unions. Full story...
Jun
18th

Fiat seeks gov’t, union support for its plan to save jobs in Italy

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Fiat S.p.A. called on Italy's government and unions to back its efforts to maintain jobs while cutting output in the country. The automaker also secured a commitment from Rome on Thursday for investment near two plants that could face cuts. Full story...
Jun
18th

Fiat seeks support for its plan to save jobs in Italy

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Fiat S.p.A. called on Italy's government and unions to back its efforts to maintain jobs while cutting output in the country. The automaker also secured a commitment from Rome on Thursday for investment near two plants that could face cuts. Full story...
Jun
18th

Fiat’s Sicily factory to end car production in 2011

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Fiat Group Automobiles announced Thursday that it would stop car production in its Termini Imerese plant, near Palermo, Sicily, in 2011. Full story...
Jun
18th

Fiat CEO Marchionne outlines output cuts for Italy plants

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Fiat plans to stop car production at one Italian plant and change to a new platform at another, its CEO told government and unions at a meeting on the impact of its deal to steer Chrysler back to health. Sergio Marchionne, who now also heads the U.S. Full story...
Jun
17th

Bosch hopes for boost from Fiat-Chrysler deal

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The Fiat-Chrysler deal and new fuel economy rules could boost sales for the world's largest auto supplier, the company's chairman said today. Full story...
Jun
17th

INDIA: Fiat launches Grande Punto

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Fiat has launched its Grande Punto model on the Indian market and is eyeing much higher market share. Full story...
Jun
17th

Chrysler Group LLC Announces Production Start at Seven North American Assembly Plants

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Auburn Hills, Mich. - One week after finalizing its global strategic alliance with Fiat Group, Chrysler Group LLC announced today that it will resume volume production of vehicles with the start up of seven of its North American assembly plants the week of June 29, 2009. Full story...
Jun
16th

ITALY: EIB lends Fiat EUR400m

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The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Fiat Group have signed a loan agreement for EUR400m in a deal approved by bank directors in March. Full story...
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