Fiat rolls out 5,00,000th engine

Fiat has announced that it has rolled out its 250,000th car and 500,000th engine from its Ranjangaon plant in Pune today. 

FIAL, a 50:50 joint venture between Fiat Group Automobiles SpA and Tata Motors, supplies petrol and diesel engines to Maruti Suzuki, Tata Motors and Premier. 

The company’s facility at Ranjangaon has a production capacity of 200,000 cars and 300,000 engines per annum besides 300,000 parts and accessories. 

FIAL currently manufactures the Linea, Grande Punto and the Tata Manza, Indica Vista and Indica V2. The facility also manufactures Fiat’s hugely successful 1.3-litre Multijet diesel engine and 1.2 and 1.4-litre Fire petrol engine. The investment in the plant exceeds Rs 4,000 crore.