If Fiat has just launched its new “large panda” with a 100% electric version, the Italian brand also prepares the succession of the current and most compact panda.
If, of course, it has experienced different developments, this third generation Fiat Panda began its career a long time ago, in 2012. Always essential in the range of the Italian brand, its end of production at the Pomigliano factory, near Naples, It has been repelled many times, by 2026, then by 2027 and now until 2030.
Stellantis would now prepare his succession, with a long generation generation in electricity, says the clean automotive site. It would arrive a year after the next Fiat 500 and could resume the style of the great Panda, a modernized version of the design of the first Giugiaro signed by Panda.
A future competitor for Twingo
Because since the disappearance of the Peugeot Ion and Citroën C-Zéro duo (on a mitsubishi i-Miev basis) in 2020, there are no longer small (very) small cars, less than 3.50 meters.
Among the smallest formats, we can cite the spring of Dacia (3.73 meters) or the LEAPMOTOR T03 (3.62 meters), since Renault Twingo stopped last year. Otherwise, it must resort to Quadricycles without a license, Citroën Ami/Fiat Topolino, or with a mobile and microlino duo license.
But the little Renault frog will return very soon, just taking the boiling of first generation Batracien, as we could see in the concept presented at the end of 2023.
The idea will be precisely to offer an even more compact format than the last R5, which will soon be launched in a version of less than 25,000 euros, excluding the bonus.
To further reduce costs, Renault has mentioned an accelerated design time in China under two years. The model will occur in Slovenia, with a lower labor cost than in France, where R5 occurs, but is eligible for the ecological bonus, reserved, except very rare exceptions, to cars made in Europe. Enough to announce a price of less than 20,000 euros, excluding Grant.
We should know more at the end of the year, with the presentation of the series model and an expected marketing by 2026.
The future Dacia Spring less than 18,000 euros
An ecological bonus that Dacia’s future spring should also enjoy again. This model produced in China was a great success from 2021. But the loss of this subsidy since last year fell its sales, despite Renault’s efforts to modernize it. However, it is still the cheapest electric car currently, since 16,900 euros, but with performance (autonomy and motor power) too limited to its competitors.
But a second generation of Dacia’s spring will be launched as a result of Twingo, Renault Luca Chief of Meo announced this week. It will resume the accelerated design formula in China and production in Slovenia, such as Twingo, but with a more ambitious price objective, under 18,000 euros.
Small cars of the city expected in Volkswagen and Kia
In this return of small electric cars, we are also waiting for the Volkswagen ID.1, which will be more compact than the next ID.2 planned for 2026 that aims to have less than 25,000 euros, such as the R5.
This electric pole will follow a model closer to a Volkswagen in 2027 and that the German brand announced under 20,000 euros.
Finally, on the side of Kia, we could see a Kia Ev1 arriving to succeed the little Picanto. Enough to complete its reorganized rank in Electric, after the EV3 SUV was launched last year and the future EV2 planned by 2026 to less than 30,000 euros in the form of a mini-SUV.
If the EV1 has not yet been confirmed, the Kia chief has just declared to the Autocar magazine that it would be difficult to offer such a model to 20,000 euros before the end of the decoices.
Source: BFM TV
