Fiat producirá el 500 en México

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Fiat producirá el 500 en México

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Después de analizar opciones para la introducción del 500 en Estados Unidos, Fiat aprovechará al máximo su alianza cn Chrysler y el 500 será producido en la fábrica de Toluca, donde hasta ahora se ha fabricado el Chrysler PT Cruiser que por cierto será desfasado en el transcurso de un año. Se estima un volumen de producción anual de unas 100.000 unidades (curiosamente la misma meta cuando VW anunció hace ya años que el New Beetle sería producido en Puebla) y los modelos empezarían a rodar de las líneas de montaje en el 2011.

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Fiat is targeting future annual production of the 500 model in Mexico at more than 100,000 units per year, with around a quarter of this being destined for Latin America. The news comes in requests Chrysler Group has made to regional suppliers in recent weeks. Bloomberg has reported volume projections to suppliers ranging from 104,000 to 120,000 units per year.

The targets are on the higher side of expectations and if achieved it would most likely see the 500 outselling BMW's niche Mini brand during its first year on sale in North America. Last year the Mini sold just over 60,000 units in North America.

The 500 is expected to be built at the Chrysler Group's factory at Toluca in Mexico, possibility replacing the production lines of the Chrysler brand's decade-old PT Cruiser model, with confirmation of this production location and further details of its roll-out plans coming when Fiat announces the highly-anticipated five-year business and product plan for Chrysler Group on November 4. It will go on sale in North America late next year or in early 2011.

The winner of the most prestigious award of all, that of Car of the Year 2008, the Fiat 500 has set all manner of records since its birth and its universal appeal is demonstrated by the fact that it is the first Fiat model to sell in greater numbers outside rather than inside Italy in more than a decade. It's global roll out now includes countries as far flung from the Tychy, Poland, factory where it is built, as Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Singapore, Japan and India.

The 500 has also gone on sale across a number of Latin America this year. It arrived in Fiat Brazil's showrooms earlier this month after a glamorous presentation in Rio de Janeiro, and by the end of the year the Latin American markets that will have succumbed to its diminutive charms will also include Argentina, Colombia, Barbados and Panama, Jamaica, Chile, Curaçao, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, the Dominican Republic, St Martin and Paraguay. However in many of these countries the 500 suffers from high import tariffs which mean that it's impact is restricted to being an ultra exclusive fashion accessory sold in tiny numbers. Building it in Mexico will allow the 500 to be sold more competitively priced and in much great numbers in Latin American countries where reciprocal trade agreements are in place, in particular Brazil has a burgeoning free trade agreement with Mexico, and this key market, where Fiat is the dominant player with a 25 percent share of all new vehicle sales, is expected to be the biggest recipient of the new Mexican production lines.


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En una noticia aparte los motores 1.4 Multi Air serán fabricados en la planta GEMA de Dundee, Michigan, que originalmente había sido un joint venture de Daimler-Chrysler con Hyundai y Mitsubishi, pero duró poco tiempo antes de que los asiáticos abandonaran su participación en agosto pasado.

Con esto además Fiat da un importante paso para aumentar su participación accionaria en Chrysler. Según el plan acordado con el gobierno de EEUU, que estipula que al ir Fiat cumpliendo metas de actualización de modelos y generación de mano de obra en la tierra del Tío Sam puede incrementar la tenencia de acciones.

de 20 a 25% con la fabricación de un nuevo motor de alta eficiencia en combustible en territorio EEUU.

de 25 a 30% con la producción de un vehículo con consumo de 40 millas por galón.

de 30 a 35% con la expansión de Chrysler a mercados internacionales. Hace un par de semanas con la exposición en detalle del plan estrategico para los próximos 5 años, Fiat anunció que para eso se concentrarán en Jeep que es la marca con mejor imagen y participación en mercados de ultramar, mientras que Dodge y Chrysler se enfocarán en el mercado doméstico.



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Fiat has confirmed that it will locate American production of its 1.4 litre petrol engine featuring MultiAir for use initially in the Fiat 500 model at Chrysler Group's GEMA factory in Dundee, Michigan, beating off a rival plan to build it at the Saltillo factory in Mexico. Locating the engine's production in Mexico would have positioned the supply closer to the Toluca plant that is set to build the Fiat 500 model from the end of next year, but it was in reality never much a contest as the state-of-the-art GEMA facility provided the best long-term option.

Holding a contest did allow Fiat to extract a US4.6 million tax credit from the State of Michigan towards the US179 million cost of the project. When it comes on stream in less than a year's time Fiat will be able to raise its stake in Chrysler from 20 to 25 percent as one of the incremental 5 percent increases in shareholding involves the Stateside production of a fuel-efficient engine. Fiat is on course to actually raise it stake to 30 percent within a year, by building a 40 mpg car in the U.S. ,with the final 5 percent (for expanding Chrysler overseas) coming fairly soon afterwards if plans to boost Jeep globally as outlined in the five-year plan at the beginning of the month work to plan.

The GEMA (Global Engine Manufacturing Alliance) factory in Dundee, Michigan, was opened in 2005 during Chrysler's previous ownership by German carmaker Daimler and was a three-way partnership that comprised of Chrysler, Hyundai Motor Company and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation. The partnership was formed to serve the needs of all three companies, with the goal of manufacturing an advanced family of fuel-efficient, cost-competitive, in-line four-cylinder gasoline engines at locations around the world. These were based on a Hyundai engine block design came in 1.8, 2.0- and 2.4-litre configurations In August of this year Chrysler bought out the stakes held by Hyundai and Mitsubishi to take full control of the Dundee plant. In reality the GEMA engine has generally received poor reviews and although its future is assured in the five-year plan's projections it is likely to receive significant revisions in the future from Fiat's engineers. The other two manufacturers will continue to build their own versions of the GEMA engine family at factories in South Korea and Japan respectively.

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Por cierto estas noticias y fotos salieron en http://www.italiaspeed.com/2009/cars/fi ... /2310.html y http://www.italiaspeed.com/2009/cars/in ... _gema.html
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