Jaguar Land Rover plans to cut 1,000 manufacturing contractor jobs amid falling demand amid anti-diesel sentiment and the pressures of Brexit, it has been claimed.
Pressure on the Government to ensure a “frictionless” trade deal with the European Union post-Brexit has increased as new figures released today reveal a worrying decline in British car manufacturing output.
UK car manufacturing a "stable" outlook with a year-on-year decline of just 0.05% after record exports drove the sector during January, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.
UK car manufacturing showed an increasing reliance on overseas exports as the SMMT announced that production levels had fallen for the first time for eight years during 2017.
PSA Group has said that it intends to “rebuild the industrial performance” of Vauxhall’s UK factories in conjunction with the Unite union following a meeting between the two organisations.
Job losses at Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port car manufacturing facility are set to reach 650 since the manufacturer’s takeover by the PSA Group after a new wave of cuts was announced this week.
UK new car production increased in October despite the continued decline an domestic demand, according to figures released by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).
September’s 9% decrease in UK new car registrations has been reflected by a 4.1% reduction in vehicle production in the nation’s manufacturing facilities, the SMMT has reported.
Domestic demand and exports dipped in August as UK car manufacturing experienced a 5.4% fall in production volumes, according to the SMMT.
A 13.7% decline in the number of cars being manufactured in the UK in June has caused the SMMT to revise its target of producing two million cars a year by H2 of 2020.
UK car manufacturing output rose by a quarter in May, according to new figures published today by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.
UK car manufacturing got off to a strong start in 2016 with output in January up 8% compared with the same month last year, according to the SMMT.
Britain’s car makers delivered a strong performance in November as manufacturing output rose 9.3%, according to SMMT figures.
Nissan’s premium sister brand Infiniti has begun production this week of the Q30 executive hatchback at the Japanese group’s assembly plant in Sunderland.
BMW Group UK has taken on 43 new apprentices at its UK Mini and BMW production sites in Oxford, Swindon and Hams Hall near Birmingham.
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has signed a letter of intent to build a new factory to expand its volume of European production with a new plant in Slovakia.
