| Nissan has announced plans to cut its Sunderland workforce by 1,200. Thousands of unsold cars are stored around the factory's test track. |
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| 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. |
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| Earlier this week, Jaguar Land Rover said 450 British jobs would go. |
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| The open car storage areas in Corby , Northamptonshire, are reaching full capacity. |
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| Imported cars stored at Sheerness open storage are awaiting delivery to dealers. |
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| Imported cars fill the 150-acre site at the Toyota distribution centre in Long Beach, California. |
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| The build-up of imported cars at the port of Newark, New Jersey. |
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| Stocks of Ford trucks in Detroit, Michigan. |
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| New cars jam the dockside at the port of Valencia in Spain. |
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| Peugeot cars await shipment to Italian dealers at the port of Civitavecchia. |
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| Unsold cars at Avonmouth Docks near Bristol. |
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| With many manufacturers on extended Christmas shutdown, the number of cars rolling off production lines in December fell 47.5% to just 53,823. |
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| Thousands of new cars are stored on the runway at the disused Upper Heyford airbase near Bicester, Oxfordshire on December 18, 2008. |
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| 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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