FCA India Automobiles Private Limited (FCAIPL), formerly known as Fiat Group Automobiles India Private Limited, is the Indian subsidiary of

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, formed in 1997. The company was established for the production of cars and engines under the brand

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, and

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. It is the ninth largest Indian

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by sales in India.

History

Fiat brand in India was earlier represented through a joint venture company called Fiat India Automobiles Pvt Ltd., FIAPL (Name changed to Fiat India Automobiles Ltd., FIAL later) founded in the year 1997 with

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and

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as the two partners coming together to produce cars for both brands in a plant set up through joint investments at

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, in

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district of

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. The board of directors for this company comprises five nominees each from Fiat and Tata. Another key interest area for the Tata-Fiat JV is the production of the 1.3 Multijet engine and corresponding powertrains common to a number of both the Tata & Fiat brand cars in India like Fiat Palio, Fiat Grande Punto, Fiat Linea, Fiat Aventura, Fiat Urban Cross, Tata Vista and Tata Manza. Even today the Tata Fiat JV plant operates under the FIAL name, as an independent entity and it produces Fiat & Tata brand cars for FCAIPL (Fiat India NSC) & Tata Motors respectively. The company presently employs about 2600 employees. It also undertakes contract manufacturing of engines for Maruti Suzuki India Ltd & Premier Automobiles. Premier Automobiles uses this engine for their compact SUV Premier Rio and the Suzuki cars that used Fiat 1.3 Multijet engines in Indian market include – Ritz, Swift, Swift DZire, SX4 & Ciaz, S-Cross, Vitara Brezza, Baleno. Prior to this, Fiat used to sell the

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, 124 and Uno in India, manufactured under licence by

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. In 2015 FCA officially launches the

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brand in India absent since 2013. The relaunch is managed directly by the FCA India division through the opening of three dealerships in the Indian territory and the launch of the

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and Quattroporte sedans imported directly in from

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(

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). The initial plan envisages sales of 100 units per year with the progressive expansion of the sales network. From 2016 the import of the

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SUV and the

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coupè starts. In February 2016, the entry of the

brand in the Indian market was announced. Mike Manley, then director of the Jeep brand and the

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region of the FCA Group, announced that the first models to be imported from the

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are the

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, the

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and the sports version Grand Cherokee SRT, opening the first show rooms in the main Indian cities and addressing models to a target of luxury customers. In addition, the expansion of the Jeep brand involved the investment of 280 million US dollars for the production of the new model

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with right-hand drive in the Pune plant from mid-2017. The Indian plant will produce all the Compass with right hand drive to be exported globally to Australia, New Zealand, UK, Japan, Brunei and South Africa. The 1 June 2017 the first locally produced Jeep Compass officially rolled off the assembly line at the company's Ranjangaon plant. In 2017, Fiat signed a contract for the production and supply to Tata Motors starting from the end of 2018 of the 2.0 liter ''Multijet II'' turbo diesel engines. The 2.0-liter ''Multijet II'' engine in the same year went into production at the Indian Ranjangaon plant to be adopted by the Jeep Compass also produced locally. The supply to Tata Motors concerns about 70,000 per year to be fitted to the

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SUV that went into production at the end of 2018. In November 2018 the production of the Fiat Punto models (including the Abarth version), Avventura and Linea ended due to low sales; consequently the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles group withdraws the Fiat brand from the Indian market, focusing on the development of the

brand that produces the right-hand-drive

exported globally and imports the Grand Cherokee and Wrangler models from the US.

Manufacturing facilities

Fiat has a manufacturing plant at

, which has an installed capacity to produce 355,000 cars and engines, besides aggregates and components. The company plans to double the production capacity for both car units and engines in the next few years. The car plant manufactures both Fiat and Tata cars, the latest additions in 2014 are the

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facelift, Fiat Punto Evo,

Tata Zest Tata Zest is a Subcompact sedan produced by Tata Motors. The car was revealed at Indian Auto Expo 2014 along with its hatchback version, the Tata Bolt. The car was launched in Indian markets on 12 August 2014. The Zest is part of Tata's ''F ...

and Fiat Avventura. Engine manufacturing at

plant was the 1.2 litre Fire petrol, the 1.4 litre Fire naturally aspired and T-Jet turbocharged version and the small 1.3 litre Multijet diesel. In April 2020 the Fiat India Ranjangaon plant has rolled out the 5,00,000th car. In 2017 FCA planned to start production of the right hand drive version of the new

launched on 31 July 2017 starting at 15 Lakhs.

Models

Current models

Jeep

Maserati

Discontinued models

Fiat

Abarth

Jeep

Maserati

Sales performance

''FIAT'' sold 24000 vehicles in 2009 and registered an increase of 241% compared to the previous year sales which stood at 6,897 vehicles. It planned to sell 130,000 cars annually in India by 2014.

References

External links

* (Fiat) * (Jeep) {{Automotive industry in India Car manufacturers of India Manufacturing companies based in Pune Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1997 Indian companies established in 1997 Fiat Stellantis Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Indian subsidiaries of foreign companies 1997 establishments in Maharashtra

History

Manufacturing facilities

Models

Current models

Jeep

Maserati

Discontinued models

Fiat

Abarth

Jeep

Maserati

Sales performance

See also

References

External links