Just days after Fiat and Mazda announced a joint venture to develop their most famous sports cars, the Italian automaker is reportedly considering a plan to build Mazda vehicles at Fiat and Chrysler assembly plants worldwide in an effort to reduce production costs.
Fiat is used to this sort of partnership, having already built the small Fiat 500 in a joint venture with Ford's Ka; the Fiat Punto with General Motors' Opel Corsa; and the Fiat Sedici with a Suzuki mini-SUV, sharing the investment costs of around 1 billion euros ($1.26 billion) needed to develop each new car.
On Wednesday, Fiat announced that its new Alfa Romeo Spider will be built on the same architecture as the Mazda MX-5.
"We will continue to look at other bilateral arrangements," Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne told reporters at a Chrysler plant in Belvedere, Illinois.
Source: Reuters
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Fiat is used to this sort of partnership, having already built the small Fiat 500 in a joint venture with Ford's Ka; the Fiat Punto with General Motors' Opel Corsa; and the Fiat Sedici with a Suzuki mini-SUV, sharing the investment costs of around 1 billion euros ($1.26 billion) needed to develop each new car.
On Wednesday, Fiat announced that its new Alfa Romeo Spider will be built on the same architecture as the Mazda MX-5.
"We will continue to look at other bilateral arrangements," Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne told reporters at a Chrysler plant in Belvedere, Illinois.
Source: Reuters