Stellantis NV will pause vehicle production for several weeks at its Warren Truck Assembly Plant in a move the automaker said isn’t tied to other tariff-related factory cuts it announced Thursday.
“Due to an internal shortage of engines, Stellantis is allocating all available volume to support production of the Ram 1500 at the Sterling Heights Assembly Plant,” Stellantis said in a statement from spokeswoman Jodi Tinson. “As a result, the Warren Truck Assembly Plant will be down beginning April 14, 2025. The plant is expected to resume normal production in early May.”
The plant builds the Jeep Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer SUVs. Eric Graham, the president of United Auto Workers Local 140, which represents workers at the factory, said he expects production to pause for four weeks.
The same 3.0-liter Hurricane twin-turbo six-cylinder engine is used in both the Wagoneers and Ram 1500 pickups that are built at nearby Sterling Heights, and the automaker has been routing more of them to build the pickups lately, the union leader said. The engines are made at a plant in Saltillo, Mexico, but Graham noted the shortage issue began before President Donald Trump’s tariffs began taking effect.
Pausing production for several weeks will mean more than 1,000 workers will be temporarily laid off, he said. Several hundred workers at the plant will continue to work in a different area on repairing Ram 1500 pickups that come from Sterling Heights, he noted.
About 1,300 Warren Truck workers are already on indefinite layoff after production of the Ram 1500 Classic model ended last fall.
