Stellantis, production in Italy drops again by 35% in Q1'25

The situation of Stellantis car production in Italy worsens. In the first three months of 2025, data collected by the periodic report edited by Fim-Cisl show a 35.5% drop in vehicles produced in a year, 2024, considered a black year, with production volumes that take Italy back to the 1950s. Specifically, in the first quarter of 2025, 109,900 units of cars and commercial vans were produced, compared to 170,415 in 2024.

Car production dropped by 42.5 per cent to 60,533, commercial vehicles contracted by 24.2 per cent, reversing the trend established last year with a 28.5 per cent rise. 'In all the car production plants we found a particularly negative situation,' explained Ferdinando Uliano, national secretary of the Fim Cisl, 'in contrast to the previous year where at least the Pomigliano d'Arco plant was a positive exception.

The situation in 2025 will remain difficult because, apart from the Fiat 500 hybrid in Mirafiori and the new DS in production in Melfi in the second half of the year, the new models will in any case go into production from 2026. 'We expect a further aggravation in terms of volumes and an increase in the use of shock absorbers, involving almost half of the employees,' adds Uliano.

The changes introduced to the industrial plan, Fim reasoned, 'could lead to an important growth in production in 2026 close to that seen in 2023'. In the last meetings with the unions, the Group confirmed the target of 1 million vehicles by 2030, but made it conditional on market response.

On the plate are the 2 billion in investments and the 6 billion in purchases from Italian suppliers, but the production figures are discouraging. It is certainly 'a change of approach', with an additional investment plan to the previous one, admits Uliano, but 'the collapse of volumes on the markets and the transition to electric and digital, to which are now added the duties on European cars, first threatened and then introduced by the US, represent a perfect storm that significantly affects the whole of Europe and its most important industrial fabric'.