As products linked to the Italian identity go, the Fiat 500 is right up there with fashion and food. So when Carlos Tavares, the chief executive of Stellantis — which now owns the Fiat brand — issued a warning over the future of the car’s production in Italy, there was a backlash in the country.Tavares raised doubts over the Fiat factory in Turin, home to the company’s founding Agnelli family, and a plant near Naples if Giorgia Meloni’s government refused to further subsidise electric vehicles. “If you don’t give subsidies to purchase EVs, you are putting at risk the Italian plants,” he told Bloomberg.
要说有什么产品能代表意大利身份,菲亚特500 (Fiat 500)可以说与时尚和美食并驾齐驱。因此,当现在拥有菲亚特品牌的Stellantis的首席执行官卡洛斯•塔瓦雷斯(Carlos Tavares)对菲亚特汽车在意大利的生产前景发出警告时,该国出现了强烈反弹。