Last Modified: 20 Mar 2009
By: Channel 4 News
UK car makers have responded to the economic downturn by cutting jobs, reducing working hours and suspending production.
Here are the latest figures.
Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) vehicle production figures across the UK:
- The number of new cars produced in February in the UK crashed 59 per cent from February 2008 to just 59,777 cars
- Only 5,870 commercial vehicles were made in February, down 71.6 per cent on February 2008
- The number of vehicles exported also fell by 58.4 per cent to 51,067
- The number of new cars and commercial vehicles bought in the UK plummeted by 66.7 per cent to 14,580
Toyota
- Reducing working hours and cutting pay by 10 per cent from 1 April for one year
- Cut 200 temporary jobs and opened a voluntary redundancy scheme
- Cutting one in two shifts at the Burnaston plant in Derbyshire producing the Auris model
- Suspending production for two weeks in February, a week in March, and again for two weeks in April
BMW
- 850 jobs cut from the the Mini plant in Oxford
- The Christmas shutdown was extended by 10 days, and the factory closed for one week in February
- Around 300 agency staff lost their jobs and the plant a Cowley will also cut production from seven days a week to five
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