US – Investing $280m in the company’s manufacturing facility in Ranjangaon, India, will support the production of a new Jeep vehicle and is expected to begin production in the second quarter of 2017. “Today marks an important step as we continue to expand the availability of Jeep products around the world,” said Sergio Marchionne, CEO, FCA.
Ranjangaon will be the fourth plant outside of the US for volume production of Jeep vehicles. Jeep branded vehicles are also currently built in Italy and Brazil, and will begin production in China in the fourth quarter of 2015.