Stellantis will unveil the totally different fashions to be constructed at its meeting plant in Windsor, Ont., “within the coming months,” a senior govt stated Jan. 17.
“We’re getting pretty near with the ability to reveal which fashions are coming,” Mark Stewart, COO of Stellantis’ North American operations, advised Automotive Information Canada. “We’re going to be tremendous excited to host our union management to see the totally different fashions as we roll that out. And within the coming months, we’ll reveal what these are.”
An announcement will probably be made by the third quarter of 2023, stated Stewart, who was amongst firm officers accompanying Prime Minister Justin Trudeau throughout a tour of the minivan plant.
“Absolutely the objective is for the Windsor plant to get again on to a three-shift operation [as it had been] for a lot of, a few years.”
Windsor Meeting Plant, which employs about 4,000 hourly staff, is at present a two-shift operation. It builds the Chrysler Pacifica, the Grand Caravan particularly for the Canadian market and the Voyager for fleet gross sales.
However, in response to U.S.-based forecasting agency AutoForecast Options (AFS), the plant will quickly assemble the subsequent technology of the Dodge Charger and Challenger. They’re to be electrified variations of the muscle vehicles. Manufacturing of the present technology will cease at Ontario’s Brampton Meeting Plant (BAP) on the finish of 2024. In the meantime an electrified product from Jeep will take over their floorspace on the BAP.