Stellantis Pulls Out of LA, SEMA

by Tim Healey

Published: October 20th, 2023

Stellantis will not be at next month's Los Angeles Auto Show. Nor will it be at the upcoming Specialty Equipment Market Association show in Las Vegas. This is due to the ongoing United Auto Workers' strike.

This is following the news earlier this week that Stellantis was going to pull out of CES in Las Vegas, also due to the strike. That show takes place in January.

The move is all about cutting costs and it means the automaker will not be doing any press conferences or having displays at either event. SEMA opens to the public on October 31 and the LA Auto Show opens to the public on November 17, following the media day on November 16.

Yours truly has been in the early stages of planning our LA show coverage -- we don't typically attend SEMA -- and it had appeared that Stellantis planned on making news at the media day.

We'll have to see if Ford or General Motors follow suit. At this juncture, it doesn't appear Ford had a presser planned (more so due to the product cycle than the strike), and I have not yet heard about GM's plans.

Stellantis not being in LA means that consumers won't see displays from Dodge, Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Ram, Chrysler, Jeep, and Mopar. That's a lot of floor space that just opened -- especially since Stellantis usually brings test tracks.

Here's the entire copy of the press release:

"As the costs of the ongoing UAW strike continue to mount, Stellantis has decided to cancel its planned display and all other presentations at SEMA (Las Vegas Oct. 31- Nov. 3, 2023) and the LA Auto Show (Nov. 16-26, 2023), as part of its contingency plan."

The show must go on, however, and we know Toyota will likely be there. As will Lucid. And presumably most other non-struck automakers.

[Image: Stellantis]

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Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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TheEndlessEnigma on Oct 21, 2023

Stellantis is starting to circle the drain. Seems their strategy has been to kill models that sell and gut brands to replace the model line up with...someone fill in the blank here. In the end here's what's happening, Stellnatis is trying to sell the North American market as if it were Europe.....which it is not. Once again, Chrysler is purchased by a European company who then proceeds to drive, what was , Chrysler into the ground. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

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- Jeff on Oct 21, 2023
  
  There will be Ram trucks and Jeeps because they sell and add a lot of profit to Stellantis. Chrysler and Dodge will probably not be around for much longer
  
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Lou_BC on Oct 21, 2023

"Pull out? Doesn't sound manly to me"

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- Jalop1991 on Oct 21, 2023
  
  I loves me some George Carlin.
  
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