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What is Stellantis? Your guide to its brands, cars and vans

Written by: Keith WR Jones Last updated: 2nd April 2026

In many of our news stories and reviews you will notice mention of a manufacturer called Stellantis – yet no car or van you see on the road has that name anywhere on its badging. So what exactly is Stellantis?

Manufacturing cars and vans is a complicated and costly business. To make large-scale volume production profitable, car makers historically joined forces to share development costs for a greater chance of financial success. Those partnerships later link-up with multiple others, creating giant car-building companies – Stellantis is one such firm.

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Formed in 2021, Stellantis is the world’s fourth-largest vehicle manufacturing group in terms of sales. The top spot is occupied by the Toyota Motor Corporation, with Volkswagen Group in second and Hyundai Motor Group third.

Headquartered in the Netherlands, Stellantis was the result of a merger of two already sizeable manufacturing groups – PSA Groupe of France and the Italian-American combine of FCA. Chances are that both of those sets of initials will be equally unfamiliar.

PSA was a contraction of Peugeot Société Anonyme, those last two words representing a type of French limited company.

FCA on the other hand was the abbreviated name for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, a group that was created in 2012 when Fiat purchased a 58.5% stake of the Chrysler Group.

For the most part, Stellantis has achieved economies of scale by sharing unseen components across its different car brands, such as engines, electric drive systems and vehicle platforms.

This allows each marque to maintain and develop its own image through styling, the driving experience and marketing, regardless of the fact that they’re often built in factories alongside other closely related models, sold under different labels.

With the vans side of the business, where light commercial vehicles consumers are less influenced by appearance and image, save for some relatively inexpensive detailing particular to each brand, the models are effectively identical. There’s additional complication here due to the vans also being sold with Toyota badges courtesy of a commercial arrangement with that company.

Stellantis car brands sold in the UK

Not all of the 15-strong array of Stellantis brands are offered on the British market, although they share an assortment of hardware and technologies that are common to those built and sold in other parts of the world.

Stellantis car marques sold in the UK comprise:

Abarth: high performance small car specialists

Abarth 600e static front three-quarter

Much of Abarth’s history centres around producing high performance versions of various dinky Fiat cars, so it’s no surprise that this legacy continues today. Abarth’s 2026 line-up is exclusively electrically powered, although industry rumours persist that its next model will be a hot take on the petrol-engined Fiat Grande Panda.

Alfa Romeo: upmarket performance models

Alfa Romeo Junior Elettrica static front three-quarter

While Alfa Romeo’s motorsport glory years are predominantly viewed in black and white imagery, its racy reputation continues to be fostered. That's despite its range consisting of three SUVs but no sports coupes or convertibles. Varying levels of hybridisation and electric-only power are available across today’s line-up.

Citroen: champions of comfort

Citroen e-C3 Aircross dynamic front three-quarter

Once the most innovative of car brands, responsible for a raft of technologies which many car buyers found scary, including hydropneumatic suspension, eventually proved financially ruinous for Citroen. After Peugeot’s 1974 takeover, its models have generally relied on superficial quirkiness, enhanced comfort and good value, with widespread electrification also available today.

DS: a French take on luxury

DS No8 E-Tense static front three-quarter

Derived from the reborn Citroen sub-brand, DS was split away to form a standalone marque a decade ago, but so far none of its range has truly struck a chord with British buyers. Could that change with a bold new styling direction as DS attempts to replicate the allure of French luxury goods in the automotive sphere?

Fiat: characterful small cars

Fiat Grande Panda static front three-quarter

Fiat is undergoing a period of transition as it’s finally waved goodbye to the long-serving combustion-engined old 500 range launched back in 2008. The good news is that its latest models come in both hybridised petrol and battery-powered forms.

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Jeep: in-built go-anywhere agility 

Relaunched into the UK market back in 1993, there was a real buzz about Jeep’s go-anywhere range that gradually ebbed away over the intervening years. The advent of partial- and full-electrification seems to be winning the brand new fans, particularly with its smallest model, although Jeep also has bold plans at the opposite end of the price spectrum.

Leapmotor: extraordinary electrified value

Leapmotor C10 static front three-quarter

Stellantis doesn’t wholly own Chinese newbies Leapmotor, but it has an equity stake in both the manufacturer and the joint-venture to market and manufacture its models outside of its domestic market. Leapmotor’s cars are either all-electric or range-extenders with an on-board generator, with its initial models set to be joined by at least one additional range in each of the next three years.

Maserati: evocative sports car specialists

Maserati GranTurismo static front three-quarter

From its position as a dominant force in top-flight motor racing to one with a reputation for producing rapid but fragile road cars, today’s Maseratis have substance and engineering integrity worthy of the marque. Electric drive systems are now available, but its sonorous V8 isn't dead yet.

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Peugeot: a cut above mainstream alternatives

A long-standing brand of upmarket mainstream solidity and dependability, today’s Peugeot models are also daringly styled in a way that’s gloriously at odds with its previously conservative nature. Appropriately for today’s customers, mild and plug-in hybrids, as well as fully electric drive systems, are available across the line-up.

Vauxhall: a century of popularity

Vauxhall Grandland Electric dynamic front three-quarter

For decades, the British Vauxhall brand was intrinsic to General Motors’ presence in this part of the world, but when the American group jettisoned its European operations, PSA — with which joint-ventures had already been established — took over and quickly revitalised its product range, both in terms of styling and electrification of the drive options.

Stellantis van brands sold in the UK

Despite the careful curation of brand identities with Stellantis’s car portfolio, its light commercial models are an altogether different proposition as the bodywork, engines and electric drive systems and most of the interior fixtures and fittings are largely identical.

Where differences primarily occur among the line-up of Citroen, Fiat Professional, Peugeot and Vauxhall vans is with their frontal styling, displaying variations in grille, headlight and bumper designs as well as interior trims, naming and pricing strategies.

Stellantis also has a commercial arrangement with Toyota which doesn’t engineer its smaller Japanese-made light vans for sale in Europe. Its versions are also identical save for the aforementioned differentiators.

Stellantis small vans: K9 derivatives

Citroen e-Berlingo van static front three-quarter

Whether you’re looking for a fully electric or combustion-engined small commercial vehicle in panel van or  crew-cab guise, there’s a Stellantis model for you:

Stellantis medium vans: K0 derivatives

Vauxhall Vivaro Electric van static front three-quarter

Using the same recipe as with its small vans but with increased quantities of ingredients, diesel and electric versions of the Stellantis medium vans will also be joined by hydrogen-powered versions in the near future:

Stellantis large vans: 250 Series derivatives

Peugeot E-Boxer static front three-quarter

They may be old enough to soon start being of special interest to archeologists but the large Stellantis vans recently benefited from another overhaul with fresh styling and improved interiors to complement their diesel and electric drive choices:

Stellantis car and van brands not sold in the UK

Of the car and van marques Stellantis owns which are absent from UK price lists, only one is a potential candidate to return to these shores in the near future – but whether it will is far from certain:

Chrysler: minivan-centric model range

Chrysler Pacifica static front three-quarter

Although Chrysler-badged cars have been sold in the UK on and off for the best part of a century, the models price-listed back in 2015 will likely be the last of them. Primarily catering for the North American markets, Chrysler’s current range consists entirely of Voyager and Pacifica MPVs.

Dodge: muscle car image has its work cut out

Dodge Charger static front three-quarter

Although Dodge – and its Dodge Brothers predecessor – had a worthwhile UK customer base until WW2, subsequent efforts to revive that enthusiasm flagged. Today’s Dodge models are sold primarily in North America where it sells the Charger muscle car and a pair of SUVs, the smaller of which is a re-nosed Alfa Romeo Tonale.

Lancia: Italian sophistication for the few

Lancia Ypsilon static front three-quarter

After years in the doldrums, Lancia – the luxury-focused division of the old Fiat empire – is being shown some love again. The fruits of this affection has so far seen the launch of the Lancia Ypsilon, a small hatchback that shares much with the Peugeot 208 and Vauxhall Corsa, with the forthcoming Lancia Gamma sharing its platform with the DS No8. Could these plush models relaunch Lancia in the UK after a three-decade-long absence?

Opel: more than just Vauxhalls outside the UK?

Opel Rocks Electric static front three quarter with driver's door open

Although Opel-branded cars were sold in the UK before WW2 and again from the late-1960s through to the early-1980s, because it was also part of General Motors, its design and engineering centres eventually subsumed Vauxhall’s to the point the two marques’ cars were identical in all but name.

This resulted in the German brand disappearing from British price lists in 1988 – while the Vauxhall label continued in the UK, every other market the cars are sold in stuck solely with Opel branding.

Today’s Opel range remains identical to Vauxhall’s with two exceptions – our Vivaro Life van-based MPV is sold elsewhere as the Opel Zafira, while at the opposite end of the scale, a rebadged Citroen Ami is available as the Opel Rocks Electric.

Ram: big haulers that aren't all as yee-ha as they appear

Ram 2500 Heavy Duty static front three-quarter

Very much focusing on the North American market and once a model range sold by Dodge before it was separated off, commercial vehicle brand Ram’s core model lines are a range of butch pickup trucks, a mite or so smaller than Rutland. There are a couple of outliers in their midst, though – Americanised versions of both the Stellantis K0 and 250 Series ageing panel vans are sold as the Ram ProMaster City and the Ram ProMaster respectively.