Marchionne made the confirmation during a conference call with analysts on January 26, car news (subscription required) reports.
The pass, which was deliberate all alongside, is to help unfold the fee of developing the platform and motors based totally on it, whose invoice already totals greater than $2.7 billion.
“The investment in Alfa Romeo and clearly the technical investment within the architecture become something that turned into designed to advantage extra than Alfa,” Marchionne said. “i am happy that we've eventually found clarity of idea within the extension of those architectures nicely beyond Alfa.”