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8Ford to close the engine plant at Bridgend in South Wales. Won’t be long now until car production in the Uk, well manufacturing of any kind for that matter, is a thing of the past. When will it end? Honda closing,Vauxhall cutting jobs, JLR, shedding thousands of jobs, Nissan ceasing production of the new Quashquai in the UK. Shipbuilding gone, steel making virtually gone, mining gone,car production? ......going..
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The X-Trail was expected to be scaled back anyway, especially since the change in customer tastes warranted such a move. As I understood it, Nissan did not foresee job losses with redeployment being achievable? I am not sure about the cessation of the Infiniti manufacturing and potential loss of 250 jobs in Sunderland though, when they pull the brand out from Sunderland 'to concentrate on their growth markets'. If I recall they sold less than 6000 Infiniti cars in Europe! When they have plants in their popular markets it makes no sense to build ad export. As far as ship building goes, perhaps adapting to change? LINK And again it doesnt have the workforce it once had, but it is still maintaining an order book. As far as Peugeot cutting jobs, that was always going to happen when GM sold up. But you could find that Renault (read as Nissan) could start building their vans here to take over from the Vauxhall vans (platform shared remember from a Trafic).
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I read today that Toyota & Subaru have joined forces also to share e-mobility technology to produce BEV's and share the costs.
https://insideevs.com/news/353244/to...-bev-platform/
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