FCAs Future Forecast

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles: The Next Five Years

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Ram Trucks CEO and President Reid Bigland got his turn among the executives elucidating the near-term futures for brands in the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles umbrella, laying out the plans for both Ram trucks and Fiat Professional. After Bigland said that the company "will continue to invest heavily in commercial vehicles" for the Italian arm, he didn't give many specifics as to where that investment would go. What we do know for now is that a new Fiat Doblo will come next year - that's the truck we've been catching spy shots of and that will be the basis for the Ram ProMaster City.

In 2016 will come the next-generation Fiorino, a small cargo van sold in markets outside the US as a Fiat, as the Citroën Nemo and Peugeot Bipper. The European and South American markets will also get a new midsize pickup that same year.

Bigland's goal for Ram Trucks and Ram commercial is just a touch more ambitious: "Build the best pickup trucks and commercial vehicles in the industry" and increase NAFTA-market sales from 463,000 in 2013 to 620,000 in 2018. The waypoints along that road include a refresh for the Ram 1500 in 2015 and then a brand new 1500 to come two years later in 2017. Bracketing that, a refresh for the Heavy Duty lineup happens in 2016, and two years later it will also get an all-new generation.

In the same timeframe the commercial models will get called in for a mix of updates. The ProMaster gets fitted for a diesel – a different oil-burning powerplant than the 3.0-liter in the Ram 1500 EcoDiesel – later this year. The ProMaster City also bows in Q4 of this year, and you can see a rendering of its face that we caught during the presentation. The Ram Chassis Cab is due for a minor update in 2016, major updates headed for both the Ram Commercial Light Duty line in 2017 and the Heavy Duty and Chassis Cab line in 2018.


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In the interest of simplifying and summarizing, here's the complete list of FCA's near future plans. Of course there's still the possibility that a few changes will be made. But as of what we know right now, here's what's coming, and what's going away.

Ram
2014: ProMaster diesel launches; ProMaster City launches
2015: Ram 1500 refreshed
2016: Ram HD refreshed; Ram chassis cab refreshed
2017: all-new Ram 1500 launches; Commercial light-duty truck refreshed
2018: all-new Ram HD launches; all-new Commercial heavy-duty truck launches; Ram chassis cab major update launches

Chrysler
2014: Refreshed 300/300C, debuting at Los Angeles Auto Show
2016: 100 C-segment sedan launches; Town & Country minivan launches, complete with PHEV version
2017: 200 sedan gets a mid-cycle refresh; all-new fullsize crossover launches, complete with PHEV version
2018: all-new 300/300C launches; all-new midsize crossover launches
Unconfirmed: 300 SRT8 will die

Dodge/SRT
SRT brand will be folded back into Dodge, meaning the Viper once again wears the Dodge logo
2014: refreshed Charger launches; refreshed Challenger and Challenger SRT launch; Avenger dies
2015: refreshed Charger SRT launches; Viper refreshed
2016: new Dart and Dart SRT arrive; new Journey arrives; Grand Caravan minivan dies with the arrival of new Chrysler Town & Country. Join our siblings at AOL Autos to reflect on the loss of the first mainstream minivan.
2017: new Journey SRT arrives; Durango refreshed
2018: new B-segment sedan and hatch arrive; new Challenger and Challenger SRT arrive; new Charger and Charger SRT arrive

Jeep
2014: Renegade launches
2015: Grand Cherokee refreshed
2016: 75th anniversary of Jeep; Compass and Patriot die; all-new C-segment SUV launches; Cherokee refreshed
2017: Renegade refreshed; all-new Wrangler launches; all-new Grand Cherokee launches
2018: all-new Grand Wagoneer launches

Fiat
2015: 500X launches; new "specialty" car launches

Maserati
2014: GranTurismo and GranCabrio die
2015: Levante SUV launches
2016: Alfieri Coupe launches
2017: Alfieri Cabrio launches
2018: GranTurismo launches

Alfa Romeo
2014: 4C and 4C Spider launch
2015: all-new midsize vehicle launches (not necessarily for US)
2016-2018: two all-new compacts launch; one all-new midsize vehicle launches; one all-new fullsize vehicle launches; two all-new utility vehicles launch; one new "specialty" vehicle launches (note: not all are necessarily for US)

Ferrari
2014-2018: one new vehicle launches each year

Indeed, there's a lot to talk about regarding the five-year plan for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. Be sure to give us your two cents, in Comments.

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*NOTE: no mention of a Jeep pickup... Very disappointing!

2017 model in late 2016

sounds about good timing for me to get another one