By Aditi Fiat Chrysler said
on Tuesday it will invest $250 million to grow its presence in India with the
launch of four new sport-utility vehicles (SUVs) under its Jeep brand over the
next two years
By Aditi Shah
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Fiat
Chrysler Automobiles NV (FCA) said on Tuesday it will invest $250 million
to grow its presence in India with the launch of four new sport-utility
vehicles (SUVs) under its Jeep brand over the next two years.
The investment will be made
to locally manufacture a mid-size, three-row SUV,
assemble the Jeep Wrangler and Jeep Cherokee vehicles in the country and launch
a new version of its Jeep Compass SUV, FCA said in a statement.
FCA currently has less than
a 1% share of India's passenger vehicle market. Adding new vehicles to its
portfolio is expected to help the automaker increase local sourcing of
components, achieve better economies of scale, reduce costs and boost sales.
"Our new investment of
$250 million will give us a competitive edge in multiple segments," Partha
Datta, managing director for FCA India said in the statement, adding that it is
determined to increase locally-made components in its vehicles.
The investment comes at a
time when automakers globally have been battered by the pandemic, and
automakers in India have been further stung with the domestic market slowing
down even ahead of this in 2019.
Japan's Honda Motor Co has
been forced to shutter one of its two plants in the country, and General Motors
last month stopped producing cars in India for export after ceasing domestic
sales in 2017.
India has also seen the
entry of new automakers over the last couple of years including South Korea's
Kia Motors and China's SAIC Motor Corp.
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