UNSOLD CARS AROUND THE WORLD
- Feb. 28, 2009, 1:10 PM
Nissan has announced plans to cut its Sunderland workforce by
1,200. Thousands of unsold cars are stored around the factory's test track
Honda is halting production at its Swindon plant in April and
May, extending the two-month closure announced before Christmas to four months.
Honda and Japanese rival Toyota are both cutting production in Japan and
elsewhere. Pictured, Hondas await export at a pier in Tokyo
Earlier this week Jaguar Land Rover said 450 British jobs would
go
The open car storage areas in Corby , Northamptonshire, are
reaching full capacity
Imported cars stored at Sheerness open storage area awaiting
delivery to dealers
Newly imported cars fill the 150-acre site at the Toyota
distribution centre in Long Beach , California
The build-up of imported cars at the port of Newark , New Jersey
Stocks of Ford trucks in Detroit , Michigan
New cars jam the dockside in the port of Valencia in Spain
Peugeot cars await shipment to Italian dealers at the port of
Civitavecchia
Unsold cars at Avonmouth Docks near Bristol
With many manufacturers on extended Christmas shutdown, the
number of cars rolling off production lines in December fell 47.5% to just
53,823
Thousands of new cars are stored on the runway at the disused
Upper Heyford airbase near Bicester, Oxfordshire, on December 18, 2008.
Sales of new cars in the UK have slumped to a 12-year-low and
production of cars at Honda in Swindon has been halted for a unprecedented
four-month period because of the collapse in global sales and represents the
longest continuous halt in production at any UK car plant. The announcement
comes on a day when the EU's Industry Commissioner Guenter Verheugen warned the
outlook for the European car industry was 'brutal' and predicted not all
European manufacturers would survive the crisis.
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