Fiat just came out of a rather unsuccessful joint venture with Nanjing Automotive, and are currently out looking for another JV partner in China, who can supply a manufacturing bases for the Italian marques motors.
Chery and Fiat already have a JV to make the Alfa Romeo range in China, and rumor has it that Chery might just already be at maximum production capacity. Chery is practically irritable to Fiat. Exam the facts, Chery creates stylish motors, they have lots of experience of creating small cars that are cheap, and have decent quality, Chery are branching out into the world, and Fiat are already an international brand with a track record (albeit recent) of making solid cars.
Fiat and Chery together in China could well be an unstoppable force, Chery can supply the man power, and Fiat the brains. Perhaps they could even cooperate on creating a better looking Chery QQ6, but first things first, lets let Fiat create the proper range of Fiats in China instead of these developing world models.
The existing Chery/Fiat JV is for the Alfa Romeo cars, and is expected to begin production in 2009, aiming to create around 175,000 cars per year, for both domestic Chinese consumption and export sales. Chery and Fiat also have another agreement on engines, Chery earlier this year agreed to supply Fiat with 100,000 ATECO engines per year.
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