Brampton Plant May be Sold

• The Unifor trade union says Stellantis admitted it is considering closing and selling its Canadian Brampton site.
• The Ontario plant previously built Dodge Chargers but hasn’t produced a new vehicle since 2023.
• Brampton’s silent assembly plant could soon get a For Sale sign. Trade union Unifor says Stellantis is considering shutting and selling the Ontario factory, once home to Dodge muscle cars and full-size Chrysler products, after a promised revival became a never-ending waiting game.

It seems like yesterday that the Brampton workers were so excited to build the new 2008 Challenger SRT.



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Windsor was also the "Up-Fit" Center where the Challenger graphics were installed.

 

Stellantis has idled the Brampton plant, but as of August 2026 it has not formally declared it permanently closed; it is now considering a possible sale of the facility. (Reuters)
The product story breaks down this way:

• Brampton used to build the Dodge Charger, Challenger and Chrysler 300. That production ended in December 2023. The new-generation Dodge Charger is now built in Windsor, so in that sense the major surviving Dodge product did move from Brampton to Windsor. (Car and Driver)
• The Challenger and Chrysler 300 did not move to Windsor as continuing nameplates; those Brampton programs ended.
• Brampton was then supposed to be retooled for the next-generation Jeep Compass. That plan was subsequently pulled, and Stellantis shifted the future Compass program to Illinois, not Windsor. (Reuters)
• Windsor has clearly gained importance: it builds the Chrysler Pacifica/minivan family and Dodge Charger, and Stellantis returned the plant to a third shift in 2026. (Unifor)
• But from an employment standpoint, it wasn't "most of Brampton." Reports indicated about 240 Brampton employees were transferred to Windsor, versus roughly 2,200–3,000 Brampton workers affected by the idling. (The Pointer)

Windsor inherited the Charger program and became Stellantis’s major Canadian assembly hub, but Brampton’s planned replacement volume largely went to the U.S., not Windsor.

 

In 2024, Stellantis expanded its factory in Saltillo, Coahuila. Chrysler and Ram Brand CEO Christine Feuell said that the Mexico plant expansion was a “relief valve” for a Stellantis truck factory in the United States that is expected to reach capacity in the future.