Stellantis, a disaster with no way out: only 151,000 cars produced in the first nine months of 2025 in Italy.

Numbers that highlight how Stellantis , and in the wake of the former Fiat also the automotive sector with the historical suppliers of the group once based in Turin, is one step away from the abyss .

These are the figures published today by the Fim-Cisl in a report on the production of the automotive group born from the merger between FCA (Fiat-Chrysler) and PSA (the French Peugeot-Citroen): from January to September, in the first nine months of 2025, 151,430 passenger cars were produced in the group's Italian plants, 36.3% fewer than the same period in 2024 , and 114,060 commercial vehicles (-23.9%), the latter concentrated in the Atessa factory.

A total of 265,490 units, a 31.5% drop , the worst result in the history of the automotive group headed by John Elkann . But above all, it is a result that casts doubt on Stellantis management's vaunted goal of returning to producing at least one million vehicles in Italy by 2030 , a plan shared, or at least hoped for, by Business Minister Adolfo Urso .

The forecast for the current year is grim. The union reports that 2025 will close with an overall reduction in production volumes of approximately one-third, a much worse outcome than forecast at the beginning of the year. Forecasts for the end of the year remain extremely negative: just over 310,000 units overall, with passenger car sales falling below 200,000.

As the union led by Ferdinando Uliano emphasizes, there are no glimmers of hope on the horizon for at least a year: new products that could achieve good sales volumes in our country, particularly the 'new' Fiat 500 hybrid (launching in November 2025 at Mirafiori) and the Jeep Compass (in production from October). The result of this stalemate? Currently, nearly half of the group's workforce is on unemployment benefits.

On the other hand, while the disengagement of Stellantis and the Elkann family is evident, beyond the plans presented in recent months by the company and which are now on the table of the new CEO Antonio Filosa , the response from the Meloni government on what is happening in Turin is substantial silence.

The most serious is likely the government's laissez-faire stance, led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Minister Adolfo Urso, in the decision announced in December 2023 by Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, in the presence of the Prime Minister, to produce the Grande Panda at the Stellantis factory in Kragujevac . This car has been heavily promoted by Stellantis in its dealerships in recent months and is rapidly eating away at market share and market share from its internal rival, the "old" Panda, now renamed Pandina, whose sales have plummeted 29% compared to 2024 and which is produced at the Campania plant in Pomigliano d'Arco .

But the crisis at the Naples plant isn't the only one looming. Mirafiori has halted production of just 18,000 cars, all electric 500s, while in Modena , just 75 Maseratis were produced in the first nine months of the year. Rumors are swirling about a sale of the Cassino plant (closed for 84 working days in 2025), where only 14,000 Alfa Romeo Giulia, Stelvio, and Maserati Grecale models have rolled off the assembly line since January. The Melfi plant in Basilicata is only surviving thanks to the production of the Jeep Compass and Renegade, which alone account for 81% of production: 26,000 units, an 87% drop compared to the pre-Covid period. The company has remained completely silent on the now-mythological Termoli Gigafactory project, the battery factory that is supposed to revitalize the historic Molise plant. We are in an industrial desert, one step away from the death of the Italian auto industry.

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Carmine Di Niro