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Originally Posted by mss
The UK workforce was relatively small and focused on design.
This move was inevitable - what reason would there be to retain a UK technical centre once all the design knowhow has been consumed by the parent comp-any?
IMO design location will always follow production unless there are overriding political or commercial imperatives stopping it.
This does raise the question of why anybody in the UK would buy an expensive new EV from a company given that it could easily stop supporting it if UK presence no longer made financial sense.
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Which then begs the question "Whose cars are we going to buy?", being as every mass manufacturer seems to be reducing their UK commitments and investment significantly, and investing elsewhere.