As products linked to the Italian identity go, the Fiat 500 is right up there with fashion and food. So when Carlos Tavares, the chief executive of Stellantis — which now owns the Fiat brand — issued a warning over the future of the car’s production in Italy, there was a backlash in the country.Tavares raised doubts over the Fiat factory in Turin, home to the company’s founding Agnelli family, and a plant near Naples if Giorgia Meloni’s government refused to further subsidise electric vehicles. “If you don’t give subsidies to purchase EVs, you are putting at risk the Italian plants,” he told Bloomberg.
要說有什麼產品能代表義大利身份,飛雅特500 (Fiat 500)可以說與時尚和美食並駕齊驅。因此,當現在擁有飛雅特品牌的Stellantis的執行長卡洛斯•塔瓦雷斯(Carlos Tavares)對飛雅特汽車在義大利的生產前景發出警告時,該國出現了強烈反彈。