It was a bold, massive, globally focused product strategy that Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa and his team outlined this week during Investor Day at the North American headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan, to keep alive the four US brands – Jeep, Ram, Chrysler, and Dodge – after years of shrinking into obscurity for the latter two. Counting the other brands in Europe, Stellantis will retain all 14 brands, although DS and Lancia will be folded in with Citroën and Fiat, which means it’s quite possible those brand names will go away. If so, that would mean 12 automotive brands within Stellantis – the same number of automotive and motorcycle brands within Volkswagen Group.
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The FaSTLAne 2030 plans are extremely ambitious, with plans to launch 20 new vehicles in North America alone, in the coming years, in addition to multiple new offerings overseas for Peugeot, Fiat, Opel, Alfa Romeo, Citroën, and Maserati. Analysts and journalists attending the daylong deep dive into all things Stellantis may have been expecting certain brands to be sunset, plants to be downsized, and jobs to be lost.
But while there will be some plant closures and jobs eliminated in Europe, there was no talk about cutting back in the US. Instead, new vehicles are coming to the US from Chrysler and Dodge (which will now be regional brands) and Jeep and Ram (which will be global brands).
Rampage Coming, But Built In US?
After a long day of presentations and sneak peaks, Filosa and his team answered questions from financial analysts, then he sat alone on the auditorium stage to answer media questions, willing to defend, justify, and take responsibility for the new path forward. With trucks being core to Ram, Filosa said he sees great growth prospects in the upcoming midsize Ram Dakota and compact Ram Rampage pickup truck, which will be homologated for the US from the successful Rampage that is sold in South America.
Both trucks were displayed side-by-side yesterday (no cameras, sorry) in a preview at the Stellantis Design Dome, and the Dakota appeared to be several inches taller than the Rampage, which appeared similar to the Hyundai Santa Cruz with a car-like presence. While Ram is targeting Dakota pricing below $40,000, the brand needs to get Rampage pricing lower, closer to $30,000, to be competitive.
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On at least two occasions during Investor Day, Filosa called out the Ford Maverick, which will be a chief competitor for the Rampage, for being assembled in Mexico. While that means tariff implications for the Maverick, its runaway sales in the US surely have not suffered.
During the Q&A, CarBuzz asked Filosa if he was making assurances that the Rampage will be assembled at a Stellantis plant in the US, but he would not commit. At this point, the company is only confirming that the Rampage will be built in North America. That means Canada and Mexico are possibilities.
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Answering our question about the struggling Alfa Romeo brand’s future in the US, Filosa said Alfa has a strong dealership network in the US, and that Alfa in Europe will get a new specialty model and a new C-segment SUV, at least one of them to be produced in Italy. Whether either new model will come to the US is unclear, but local dealers probably want them.
So, will the new product strategy keep both Dodge and Chrysler viable in the US market? Filosa said yes, because pushing Jeep and Ram more aggressively in overseas markets will ultimately help the two others at home. He’s expecting high sales volume for the new Chrysler Arrow and Arrow Cross (both with starting prices under $30,000, he said) and the sporty Dodge GLH SRT, all on the new STLA One platform.
“The multi-regional presence becomes an asset for all of them, and all the others are able to capture the rollout of the first implementation of technologies to do what they are very good at.”
–Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa
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There was more talk about the eight new SRT performance models (with internal-combustion power) than about new battery-electric vehicles, beyond the Jeep Recon launching later this year. The Recon, it was also revealed yesterday, will be offered with a combustion engine as well, within 18 months after the EV launches, Filosa said.
Asked whether Stellantis is leaning too far from battery-electric offerings to respond effectively if the market turns toward BEVs once again, perhaps in the face of high fuel prices, Filosa said the automaker has emphasized “freedom of choice” for powertains in response to customer demand.
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But he does see change coming on the horizon. “If you think three years, four years out – regulation will demand an acceleration of electrification,” Filosa said, noting that Stellantis’ extensive EV offerings in Europe will benefit as that market becomes “really mature,” setting the stage for similar growth to follow in the US. “It will be for North America a perfect laboratory to introduce” new technology faster, including new extended-range EVs (coming first in a Jeep SUV and Ram pickup).
Filosa said Stellantis knows what these pickup and SUV customers want: “Even higher power, even higher torque, even better towing capability.”
