Mazda, Fiat to jointly produce sports car

[Polyal]

Originally Posted by Nikked

Seems odd, that Fiat would need to out source a sports car build, when they own ferrari.

Yeah it is weird, perhaps Fiat get the MX5 chassis and Mazda get some diesels? Although I thought the CX5 now has TDi, and the 6 has for a while too, unless they are just newer tech, EU seems to do TDi better.

Sorry for the late edit.

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Getting Ferrari or Maserati to develop a cheap RWD sportscar? Well out of there 'expertise'

[RASER]

Originally Posted by Nikked

Seems odd, that Fiat would need to out source a sports car build, when they own ferrari.

The days of Ferrari in Maranello painting FIAT tractor cabins are over!, besides Ferrari is running at full manufacture capacity [thanks to China], the only avenue would be the Maserati plant [But they have big plans, so no]

Mazda would already have all the correct special machinery in Japan to make the convert. why double up?

In any case it frees up the Italian factories to make more mainstream high volume cars

Besides Italian Unions are making it very difficult to do business in Italy, FIAT have often said they would soon leave Italy for other easier and more friendly countries, unions and workers

[MethodX]

Originally Posted by RASER

The days of Ferrari in Maranello painting FIAT tractor cabins are over!, besides Ferrari is running at full manufacture capacity [thanks to China], the only avenue would be the Maserati plant [But they have big plans, so no]

Mazda would already have all the correct special machinery in Japan to make the convert. why double up?

In any case it frees up the Italian factories to make more mainstream high volume cars

Besides Italian Unions are making it very difficult to do business in Italy, FIAT have often said they would soon leave Italy for other easier and more friendly countries, unions and workers

Didnt Marchione already close to Southern factories (where they used to sabotage the cars and never turn up for work) and move production to Serbia and Poland?