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Old 5th June 2019, 21:22   #1
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8Ford to close the engine plant at Bridgend in South Wales. Won’t be long now until car production in the Uk, well manufacturing of any kind for that matter, is a thing of the past. When will it end? Honda closing,Vauxhall cutting jobs, JLR, shedding thousands of jobs, Nissan ceasing production of the new Quashquai in the UK. Shipbuilding gone, steel making virtually gone, mining gone,car production? ......going..
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Ford to close the engine plant at Bridgend in South Wales. Won’t be long now until car production in the Uk, well manufacturing of any kind for that matter, is a thing of the past. When will it end? Honda closing,Vauxhall cutting jobs, JLR, shedding thousands of jobs, Nissan ceasing production of the new Quashquai in the UK. Shipbuilding gone, steel making virtually gone, mining gone,car production? ......going..
Most of these will be transferred to EU countries where they have been offered cash incentives to move to ,All part of the Master Plan
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Old 5th June 2019, 21:59   #3
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Ford to close the engine plant at Bridgend in South Wales. Won’t be long now until car production in the Uk, well manufacturing of any kind for that matter, is a thing of the past. When will it end? Honda closing,Vauxhall cutting jobs, JLR, shedding thousands of jobs, Nissan ceasing production of the new Quashquai in the UK. Shipbuilding gone, steel making virtually gone, mining gone,car production? ......going..
Is this inside information? (about the Ford plant closure) As I understood it, the meeting(s) to discuss what was going on hadnt happened yet, never mind any announcement of plans. Granted, whilst it doesnt look good (especially with US Ford execs currently in Wales), it is by no means a done deal.

The X-Trail was expected to be scaled back anyway, especially since the change in customer tastes warranted such a move. As I understood it, Nissan did not foresee job losses with redeployment being achievable? I am not sure about the cessation of the Infiniti manufacturing and potential loss of 250 jobs in Sunderland though, when they pull the brand out from Sunderland 'to concentrate on their growth markets'. If I recall they sold less than 6000 Infiniti cars in Europe! When they have plants in their popular markets it makes no sense to build ad export.

As far as ship building goes, perhaps adapting to change? LINK And again it doesnt have the workforce it once had, but it is still maintaining an order book.

As far as Peugeot cutting jobs, that was always going to happen when GM sold up. But you could find that Renault (read as Nissan) could start building their vans here to take over from the Vauxhall vans (platform shared remember from a Trafic).
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The penny finally dropped how good the 75 was with the M47R unit..
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Is this inside information? (about the Ford plant closure) As I understood it, the meeting(s) to discuss what was going on hadnt happened yet, never mind any announcement of plans. Granted, whilst it doesnt look good (especially with US Ford execs currently in Wales), it is by no means a done deal.

The X-Trail was expected to be scaled back anyway, especially since the change in customer tastes warranted such a move. As I understood it, Nissan did not foresee job losses with redeployment being achievable? I am not sure about the cessation of the Infiniti manufacturing and potential loss of 250 jobs in Sunderland though, when they pull the brand out from Sunderland 'to concentrate on their growth markets'. If I recall they sold less than 6000 Infiniti cars in Europe! When they have plants in their popular markets it makes no sense to build ad export.

As far as ship building goes, perhaps adapting to change? LINK And again it doesnt have the workforce it once had, but it is still maintaining an order book.

As far as Peugeot cutting jobs, that was always going to happen when GM sold up. But you could find that Renault (read as Nissan) could start building their vans here to take over from the Vauxhall vans (platform shared remember from a Trafic).
It was just a clip I saw on the news last night, maybe I read too much into it, but from the report it was looking like the plant would close.
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Well, the PSA engines used in Jaguars have been equally good. A 3.0L PSA V6 is actually as good as the Mercedes OM642.

The reason I find this surprising is that BMW and JLR are direct competitors whereas a tie up between PSA and JLR would have been a case of the two companies complementing each other's market position.

Does this cooperation mean that we may see a BMW V8 replacing the Ford manufactured unit in JLR cars?
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I read today that Toyota & Subaru have joined forces also to share e-mobility technology to produce BEV's and share the costs.

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8Ford to close the engine plant at Bridgend in South Wales. Won’t be long now until car production in the Uk, well manufacturing of any kind for that matter, is a thing of the past. When will it end? Honda closing,Vauxhall cutting jobs, JLR, shedding thousands of jobs, Nissan ceasing production of the new Quashquai in the UK. Shipbuilding gone, steel making virtually gone, mining gone,car production? ......going..
As per news today, I was right.
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Well, the PSA engines used in Jaguars have been equally good. A 3.0L PSA V6 is actually as good as the Mercedes OM642.

The reason I find this surprising is that BMW and JLR are direct competitors whereas a tie up between PSA and JLR would have been a case of the two companies complementing each other's market position.

Does this cooperation mean that we may see a BMW V8 replacing the Ford manufactured unit in JLR cars?
The BMW 448S2 V8 petrol unit has already been put into Range Rovers.
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