{"id":120464,"date":"2017-11-01T09:25:40","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T13:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=120464"},"modified":"2017-11-01T09:27:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T13:27:14","slug":"fca-begins-exporting-jeeps-from-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2017\/11\/fca-begins-exporting-jeeps-from-india\/","title":{"rendered":"FCA Begins Exporting Jeeps from India"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fiat Chrysler is now exporting Jeep Compass sport-utes to Australia and Japan from India.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fiat Chrysler Automobile N.V.’s venture in India is now exporting\u00a0Jeep Compass\u00a0utes\u00a0to Japan and\u00a0Australia where car making ended for good last month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sergio Marchionne\u00a0said recently that the transformation of Jeep to\u00a0a truly global brand\u00a0is continuing to pick up momentum. Jeep sales in South America, where FCA opened a plant last year, and in Europe where Jeeps are now built on the continent for the first time, have continued to expand, Marchionne noted during a conference call last month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Global Auto News!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jeep sales in China are also growing.\u00a0Marchionne also said the Jeep plant in India is also off to a promising start.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The shipment of 600 right-hand drive units of the vehicle was dispatched to the two countries from\u00a0Mumbai,\u00a0FCA\u00a0India said in a release.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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(Australia’s last car rolls off Holden production line. For the story, <\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The\u00a0Compass\u00a0was launched in July at\u00a0FCA’s\u00a0Ranjangaon\u00a0plant near Pune.<\/p>\n

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FCA CEO Sergio Marchionne said Jeep needs to be a global brand for Fiat Chrysler to be successful.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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“We had planned to start shipping the India-made Jeep Compass in the fourth quarter of this calendar year and we are on track. Soon it will be seen on the roads in Australia and Japan, our first two right-hand drive export destinations,” Fiat India Automobiles\u00a0Pvt\u00a0Ltd (FIAPL) Chief Executive Officer Gurpratap Boparai said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The\u00a0Ranjangaon-produced SUV with more than 65% local content will go to more international markets through the ongoing quarter of 2017, the company said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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(<\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for more about Toyota ending production in Australia.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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FCA India has invested\u00a0$280 million in the plant to support local production of Jeep.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Auto plants in Australia have shutting down in recent years, with Ford, Toyota and now Holden, a General Motors subsidiary, closing their manufacturing operations during roughly the last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Critics blame the industry\u2019s demise on the refusal in 2013 by the government of Malcom Turnbull to rescue of the country\u2019s automakers as they were battered by a high Australian dollar, high production costs and a shrinking domestic market.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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(To see more about other automakers setting up in India, <\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Union officials\u00a0representing\u00a0automakers\u00a0in Australia have estimated about 30,000 people lost their jobs as a result of the recent closures. In the area north of Adelaide, which has at times had South Australia\u2019s highest unemployment rate and where General Motors’ Holden subsidiary was the largest employer, nearly 1,000 people were left looking for work when GM shut what was Australia last assembly plant last month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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