Record 2016 Britain Car Industry.

[csv8]

''Britain is brilliant. Seriously. Whatever you make of, y’know, things that have happened over the past year, it’s a nation that remains really good at making*cars.
This small and mostly very proud nation churned out 1.72 million vehicles in 2016, the highest number this century. It’s an enormous 8.5 per cent increase on 2015, which works out as nearly 1.5 million more vehicles leaving our magnificent UK*factories.
Leading the charge are Jaguar Land Rover and Nissan. JLR is now the biggest producer of cars in the country, with 544,401 vehicles leaving its four British manufacturing plants. Impressive, whatever you make of the two companies and the Infiniti Q30. Out of the big makes, Mini, Toyota, Honda and Vauxhall all have factories on UK*shores, and between them contributed another 650,000*cars.
That’s before you consider the plethora of deliriously fun and focused sports cars that Britain pops out. From Ariel to Zenos*, via Ginetta and Radical, there are so many small volume British cars that will blitz racetracks into submission. Don’t forget about the load luggers and commercial vehicles too – Britain’s manufacturing industry supplies white van men (and women), farmers and haulage companies across the*world."combining to claim top spot… Success can be put down to strong sales of the F-Pace, Evoque and Range Rover*Sport.*
Nissan sits just behind, JLR, and with just one factory. A total of 507,444 cars rolled out of its behemoth Sunderland plant, including the Qashqai, Juke..http://www.topgear.com/car-news/brit...s-car-industry......

[roddy1960]

Originally Posted by csv8

''Britain is brilliant. Seriously. Whatever you make of, y’know, things that have happened over the past year, it’s a nation that remains really good at making*cars.
This small and mostly very proud nation churned out 1.72 million vehicles in 2016, the highest number this century. It’s an enormous 8.5 per cent increase on 2015, which works out as nearly 1.5 million more vehicles leaving our magnificent UK*factories.
Leading the charge are Jaguar Land Rover and Nissan. JLR is now the biggest producer of cars in the country, with 544,401 vehicles leaving its four British manufacturing plants. Impressive, whatever you make of the two companies and the Infiniti Q30. Out of the big makes, Mini, Toyota, Honda and Vauxhall all have factories on UK*shores, and between them contributed another 650,000*cars.
That’s before you consider the plethora of deliriously fun and focused sports cars that Britain pops out. From Ariel to Zenos*, via Ginetta and Radical, there are so many small volume British cars that will blitz racetracks into submission. Don’t forget about the load luggers and commercial vehicles too – Britain’s manufacturing industry supplies white van men (and women), farmers and haulage companies across the*world."combining to claim top spot… Success can be put down to strong sales of the F-Pace, Evoque and Range Rover*Sport.*
Nissan sits just behind, JLR, and with just one factory. A total of 507,444 cars rolled out of its behemoth Sunderland plant, including the Qashqai, Juke..http://www.topgear.com/car-news/brit...s-car-industry......

G'day , I agree...and I found this too for the U.S.https://media.ford.com/content/fordm...016-sales.html This is for the first 6 months of 2016..just for one brand (Ford)..They sold nearly 1.4 million vehicles in six months!!!!!!...Add in all the other manufacturers and the mind boggles..Where do they put them all ? Cheers Rod..

[FPV+fteT3]

Lotus build @1500-2000 cars a year at Hethel all hand made others like TVR, Morgan, Noble etc build small numbers of sports cars then you have McLaren knocking out a few thousand. None mass produce but it all adds up to opportunities, engineering excellence and skill sets we are loosing over here.

[Polyal]

But we have never really had those type of companies, certainly none that have done well.

Britain went through what we are now a few years back, but they had some roots to build on.

[MethodX]

Shame.... big shame...
Hopefully with Brexit the owners will leave.

[XRtowcar]

Brexit will change their ability to export to Europe.
Changes will be interesting.

[Wretched]

Originally Posted by Polyal

But we have never really had those type of companies, certainly none that have done well.

Britain went through what we are now a few years back, but they had some roots to build on.

Not forgetting that change had to happen there. Germany and other countries in Europe were doing more with less.
Britain was forced, kicking and screaming into a different way of thinking for workers and manufacturing. I urge people to watch the documentary The Germans, Their Cars and Us.
There are better quality ones out there.

Fact of the matter is, Australia needs to change from the top to the bottom on how we do business if we're to survive.