plying ethanol to vehicles with Flex-fuel engines produced in Goiana, Brazil. From this date onward, vehicles equipped with T270 Flex and Turbo 270 Flex engines will receive ethanol as fuel directly from the factory. The first models to benefit will be the Jeep Renegade Flex T270 and Flex T270 4x4, Compass Flex T270, and Commander Flex T270, as well as the Fiat Toro Turbo T270 Flex. It is expected that by 2025, this same strategy will be replicat...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/10/09

chback versions. On June 18, Kia Motors announced that it is launching its Kia Motors North America Headquarters and Kia Motors Europe Headquarters, effective July 2, in line with the Global Operations Division restructuring launched in October 2017. The Kia Motors North America Headquarters will encompass Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia and Kia Motors Mexico (manufacturing), along with three sales units comprised of Kia Motors America, Kia Moto...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/10/02

Fiat India Automobiles Private Limited (FIAPL), Ranjangaon Plant Fiat Linea, Punto, Avventura ( -2015); Tata Indica Vista (2008-2017), Zest (2014-2019), Nexon (2017-), Nexon EV (2021-), SUV Curvv (2024-), EV SUV Curvv (2024-); Jeep Compass (2017-), Wrangler (2021-), Meridian SUV (2022-), Grand Cherokee (2022-); 1.3L gasoline engines, 1.2L/1.4L diesel engines, Revotorq –1.5L diesel engines, 2.0L diesel engines; Transmissions Joint venture plant...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/09/26

ush: Has a V8 Hemi with 540 horsepower, (4) Jeep Wrangler JK-8: Uses a Mopar-designed kit to transform a Jeep Wrangler into a pickup, (5) Jeep Cherokee Overland: Actually a Jeep Liberty but exported under the Cherokee brand name, this version is equipped with a special off-road suspension, (6) Jeep Compass Canyon: A Compass with an off-road suspension, (7) Mopar Ram Runner: A off-road racing version of the Ram pickup. Chrysler released the 2012 "...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/09/25

irst half, down by 9.58% year on year. Passenger car sales was down 11.97% to 305,100 units. Chrysler will negotiate a joint venture project of the Jeep brand with Guangzhou Automobile Group. If the talks go well, a joint venture will be established in 2014. The joint venture will first produce the Compass, followed by the Patriot and a small SUV based on Fiat cars. At the 9th China (Guangzhou) International Automobile Exhibition that started on ...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/09/25

previously scheduled down week to account for a semiconductor shortage at the plant that builds the Ford Escape and Lincoln Corsair. FCA is curtailing production through the end of January to deal with the microchip shortage by delaying the restart of its Toluca, Mexico plant, which builds the Jeep Compass, and idling the plant in Brampton, Ontario, which builds the Chrysler 300, Dodge Charger and Dodge Challenger. Toyota will be cutting producti...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/09/25

Dodge's new electric Charger Daytona, will be down for two weeks starting April 7, Stellantis’ plant in Brampton, Ontario, has already been shut down for retooling. In Mexico, the Toluca Assembly Plant will pause production for the month of April starting on April 7. The facility builds the Jeep Compass and Wagoneer S. Stellantis’ Saltillo plant that produces Ram heavy-duty pickups will continue operating. U.S. plants facing temporary layoff...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/09/24

Dodge's new electric Charger Daytona, will be down for two weeks starting April 7, Stellantis’ plant in Brampton, Ontario, has already been shut down for retooling. In Mexico, the Toluca Assembly Plant will pause production for the month of April starting on April 7. The facility builds the Jeep Compass and Wagoneer S. Stellantis’ Saltillo plant that produces Ram heavy-duty pickups will continue operating. U.S. plants facing temporary layoff...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/09/24

ond quarter of 2021 at its Warren Truck assembly plant; the fifth-generation Grand Cherokee beginning production in the third quarter of 2021 at the new Detroit plant and adjacent Jefferson North Assembly facility; and FCA’s plant in Toluca, Mexico preparing for a mid-cycle freshening of the Jeep Compass crossover. On October 30, the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy approved an air-use permit for FCA’s new Mack Aven...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/09/24

previously scheduled down week to account for a semiconductor shortage at the plant that builds the Ford Escape and Lincoln Corsair. FCA is curtailing production through the end of January to deal with the microchip shortage by delaying the restart of its Toluca, Mexico plant, which builds the Jeep Compass, and idling the plant in Brampton, Ontario, which builds the Chrysler 300, Dodge Charger and Dodge Challenger. Toyota will be cutting producti...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/09/24

the Aion S and SUV Aion LX. As to joint venture brands, GAC Honda presented its entire product portfolio, including the mid-class SUV BREEZE and the brand’s first pure-electric SUV VE-1. GAC Toyota premiered its first mid-sized SUV Wildlander at this year’s show. GAC FCA displayed its new Jeep Compass Night Eagle and the Jeep all-terrain family. GAC Mitsubishi showed the 2020 ASX. GAC Acura displayed the CDX, CDX SPORT HYBRID, NSX and RDX A-...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/09/23

the Aion S and SUV Aion LX. As to joint venture brands, GAC Honda presented its entire product portfolio, including the mid-class SUV BREEZE and the brand’s first pure-electric SUV VE-1. GAC Toyota premiered its first mid-sized SUV Wildlander at this year’s show. GAC FCA displayed its new Jeep Compass Night Eagle and the Jeep all-terrain family. GAC Mitsubishi showed the 2020 ASX. GAC Acura displayed the CDX, CDX SPORT HYBRID, NSX and RDX A-...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/09/23

cars a year. About 1,000 new employees will be hired for this expansion. Honda displayed the high performance "Civic Si" concept based on the 2012 "Civic" at SEMA Show in Las Vegas. The concept is offered in seven types of coupes and sedans, which include a Honda Factory Performance (HFP) package, "Compass360 Racing HPD 2012 Civic Si Coupe Racecar and Honda Performance Development, Inc. (HPD). Honda announced that it will unveil three Acura vehic...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/09/22

in financial assistance to projects across Ontario and Quebec: Ford has dropped plans for three-row EV SUVs at its Oakville Assembly Plant, where it will now build full-size Super Duty pickups, Stellantis paused retooling of its Brampton Assembly Plant, where it is to build the next-generation Jeep Compass, VW’s PowerCo has done little other than level land at its CAD 7 billion EV battery plant in St. Thomas, Ontario, and Nothvolt, which had pl...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/09/22

ntis announces staggered summer shutdowns for North American plants FCA launches 2020 Jeep Wrangler EcoDiesel model in North America Fiat Chrysler restarts 8 North American plants on May 18, others to follow FCA cancels summer shutdowns at North American plants Jeep Wrangler 4xe joins Renegade, Compass 4xe models in global EV lineup FCA Mexico reaches 5 million Pentastar V6 engines Jeep prepares electrified 2021 Wrangler 4xe launch in U.S. ...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/09/20

ond quarter of 2021 at its Warren Truck assembly plant; the fifth-generation Grand Cherokee beginning production in the third quarter of 2021 at the new Detroit plant and adjacent Jefferson North Assembly facility; and FCA’s plant in Toluca, Mexico preparing for a mid-cycle freshening of the Jeep Compass crossover. On October 30, the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy approved an air-use permit for FCA’s new Mack Aven...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/09/20

the Aion S and SUV Aion LX. As to joint venture brands, GAC Honda presented its entire product portfolio, including the mid-class SUV BREEZE and the brand’s first pure-electric SUV VE-1. GAC Toyota premiered its first mid-sized SUV Wildlander at this year’s show. GAC FCA displayed its new Jeep Compass Night Eagle and the Jeep all-terrain family. GAC Mitsubishi showed the 2020 ASX. GAC Acura displayed the CDX, CDX SPORT HYBRID, NSX and RDX A-...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/09/19

e FCA Group announce the signing of a EUR 6.3 billion credit line, over three years, with Intesa Sanpaolo, the largest Italian bank. Among the initiatives envisaged in this plan, FCA Italy has recently started the production lines of the new electric Fiat 500 in Turin and the Jeep Renegade and Jeep Compass plug-in hybrids in Melfi, in addition to completing the technical development and the short start of the production of the new "super sports" ...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/09/18

Dodge's new electric Charger Daytona, will be down for two weeks starting April 7, Stellantis’ plant in Brampton, Ontario, has already been shut down for retooling. In Mexico, the Toluca Assembly Plant will pause production for the month of April starting on April 7. The facility builds the Jeep Compass and Wagoneer S. Stellantis’ Saltillo plant that produces Ram heavy-duty pickups will continue operating. U.S. plants facing temporary layoff...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/09/18

6 that FCA plans to move production of its Ram pickups from the Warren Truck plant to the Sterling Heights plant beginning in 2018. Warren Truck will eventually build the Jeep Wagoneer and the Jeep Grand Wagoneer. Later this year, the company will build a new Jeep SUV, replacing the Belvidere-built Compass and Patriot, in Toluca, Mexico and its new plant in Pernambuco, Brazil. Available in the U.S. shortly after the launch of the new-generation 2...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/09/16