Should Italy drive a Fiat or a Ferrari?

Fiat New 500 Mirafiori — Fiat New 500 EV production in Mirafiori. (ALESSANDRO ALTAVILLA/WIKIMEDIA)

February 09, 2024 10:23 AM

TURIN -- The past several weeks have been truly eventful for the automotive sector in Italy, with an escalating war of words between the first right-wing government since 1948 and the country’s only volume automaker, Stellantis.

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