Stellantis stated on Friday it should assign manufacturing of its new “STLA Giant platform” to its meeting plant in Windsor, Ont., as an alternative of its Brampton, Ont., manufacturing facility, which is presently dwelling to the L-series platform.
Windsor Meeting Plant presently builds the automaker’s minivans; the Chrysler Pacifica, Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid, Chrysler Grand Caravan for the Canadian market and the Chrysler Voyager for fleets in the US.
Retooling of the Windsor plant is slated to start in 2023. The corporate says the positioning could have the “flexibility to regulate manufacturing volumes as wanted to fulfill altering market demand over the subsequent decade.”
The ageing Chrysler 300, Dodge Charger and Dodge Challenger are presently constructed on the L-series at Brampton Meeting Plant, simply southwest of Toronto. Meeting of the trio of automobiles will finish when retooling of that facility begins in 2024. A product announcement for Brampton shall be made at a later date.
In accordance with Stellantis, the STLA Giant platform will encompass unibody automobiles with an electrical vary of as much as 800 kilometres. The STLA-Body platform will encompass body-on-frame automobiles, similar to vans.
Chrysler stated the electrical Airflow crossover idea it debuted this 12 months will reside on the STLA Giant platform. U.S.-based auto evaluation agency AutoForecast Options predicts that the subsequent Dodge Challenger and Charger muscle automobiles shall be housed on the platform.