Fiat phasing out its EV in Australia, but Italian brand won’t pull out of the market

Stellantis Australia has almost sold out its stock of the Fiat 500e electric micro car and its spicy Abarth sibling in Australia, but it says this isn’t the end of the Italian brands in our market.

Technically, Fiat and Fiat Professional are classified by parent company Stellantis as separate brands in Australia, with Abarth being the third member of this triad.

With the 500e being phased out, that will leave no models for the Fiat and Abarth brands here, while Fiat Professional recently added a second model with the revived Scudo nameplate.

Looking for your next car? We'll help you research and compare so you choose with confidence.

“Fiat 500e and Abarth 500e stock in Australia has now largely been sold through and, at this stage, we are not planning additional orders while we evaluate future product opportunities for the local market,” said a Stellantis Australia spokesperson.

“We continue to support our Fiat and Abarth customers and dealer network and look forward to sharing more information about Fiat's and Abarth’s future plans in Australia at the appropriate time.”

Stellantis Australia, which also imports and distributes vehicles from the Alfa Romeo, Jeep and Leapmotor brands, didn’t confirm what models to expect from the Fiat and Abarth brands in the future, or how long this hiatus will last.

It didn't specify the reason for the discontinuation of the 500e, of which it delivered 117 examples in 2024, rising to 176 in 2025. To the end of June, it has recorded 144 sales of the wider 500 range this year, which includes leftover stock of the axed petrol-powered Fiat 500 and Abarth 695.

“As part of Stellantis Australia's ongoing portfolio and product planning process, the availability of specific models can vary over time as we assess market demand and future product opportunities,” the company added.

“We remain focused on ensuring the vehicles we bring to Australia meet customers’ expectations. Following Stellantis' recent confirmation of Fiat as one of its core global brands, we are excited by the opportunities the brand presents for the future.”

A look at the Fiat Australia website’s stock locator tool reveals just four new Fiat 500e vehicles in stock nationwide, along with nine Abarth 500e vehicles. All of these are actually 2023 and 2024 vehicles, and it’s unclear whether Fiat has imported any 500e hatchbacks since its initial importation of 2023 and 2024 models.

While that points to the electric micro car as being a slow seller, Fiat also still has a number of examples of its defunct petrol-powered Fiat 500 in stock.

It lists 31 examples of the old combustion-powered 500 and a single petrol Abarth 695 on its stock locator tool, despite confirming all the way back in August 2024 that it would cease importing petrol-powered 500 derivatives.

It’s unclear which models Stellantis Australia could tap for the local Fiat and Abarth lineups.

As the spokesperson pointed out, Fiat is being positioned as one of Stellantis' four core global brands, but there are no models being developed for the Italian brand in China – as with sister brands Jeep and Peugeot – which it could theoretically import and sell here at competitive prices.

With Fiat's wider Brazilian lineup only built in left-hand drive, that would leave Stellantis Australia to continue to lean on its European models.

In the UK, another right-hand drive market, it currently offers the 500e and the Topolino quadricycle, the latter of which is a non-starter for Australia. There are also people mover versions of the Ducato, Scudo and Doblo vans.

The Fiat 600 small SUV was revealed all the way back in 2023 as a replacement for the 500X axed here in 2021, and is offered with petrol and electric powertrains plus a hot Abarth 600e performance variant.

More recently, Fiat revealed the Grande Panda light car in 2024 with mild-hybrid and electric power.

However, Stellantis Australia has never confirmed any member of the 600 or Grande Panda lineup for our market. It also has yet to lock in the Grizzly revealed this year as a new, larger – albeit still under 4.5m-long – SUV that will serve as the brand’s flagship SUV in Europe.

While Fiat and Abarth are lumped together in VFACTS monthly industry sales reports in Australia, Fiat Professional has been split out since 2013.

Apart from 2020 and 2022, Fiat Professional has sold more than 1000 vehicles each year since 2013, peaking at 1541 units in 2025 – all of them being Ducato vans. Fiat's passenger-vehicle division, in contrast, has proved a much less steady seller across this period.

Its biggest sales year on record in Australia was 2014, just a year after its commercial vehicles started being recorded separately, when it delivered 5758 vehicles.

The bulk of these were 500 micro cars (2995), though its second-best seller that year was the Freemont, a rebadged Dodge Journey that notched up 1560 sales. The rest were examples of the Punto and Panda, which were axed just a year later.

Sales of Fiat cars declined every year after 2014, apart from a slight bump in 2021, reaching a low of 357 units in 2022. In 2023, sales rallied somewhat to 755 units, but have subsequently declined each year.

There are currently 14 dealerships nationwide through which you can buy Fiat Professional vehicles, but Fiat’s passenger-car sales network has been reduced to just five locations.

MORE: Explore the Fiat 500e showroom
MORE: Explore the Abarth 500e showroom