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The automotive industry in the UK is increasing growth of 7 July 2013 and in the first 7 months of this year, nearly 900,000 British-made cars out of the car production line to Great -Bretagne peaked in 1972, when nearly 2 million cars were made here, so we can still have some way to go to reach that high, but things are looking good for the auto industry in the United Kingdom most great players can now belong to foreign companies, but they now are sinking millions of pounds the value of investments in their manufacturing plants in the UK, and the creation of thousands of jobs in this country quite quickly British car manufacturing could be at the level that was in the early 70s so exactly which models are made here, which are companies that put inv estment behind car manufacturing in the UK, we've compiled a list of the top brands of British cars made to help ensure that the next car you buy is made in Britain.
Aston Martin Cygnet make the DB9, Rapide, Vantage and Vanquish in Gaydon in Warwickshire Originally founded by Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford the company has been through various ownerships over the last hundred years and is now owned by the town Kuwait and the Italian investment firms.
Bentley car company is now owned by Volkswagen AG in Germany, but continues to make its cars at the Bentley factory in Crewe The luxury car brand known for its saloons recently announced that it will launch an SUV in 2016 If the press initial must believe he planned to manufacture in eastern Europe, but they confirmed that it will result in Crewe, Bentley will invest 800 at its plant in the UK, creating 1,000 new jobs.
Honda cars made in its Swindon plant since 1992 between the original plant, and a second which opened in 2001, they have the ability to make cars in Britain 350,00 a year, although actual production figures for 2012 were about 165000 their Civic and jazz models are all British-made, and they have a good website dedicated to their manufacture in the UK.
Jaguar makes the XF, XK and XJ models in their factory in Castle Bromwich Jaguar Land Rover has created 350 new jobs to manufacture the new F-Type and provides that exports more than 75 of these all-aluminum Its construction employs manufacturing technologies adapted from the aerospace industry, which is the British innovation for you.
Land Rover, Jaguar is owned by Tata Motors Ltd India Luxury car group recently experienced a strong increase in demand for its vehicles, posting a 14 sales jump in 2013 to date, and nearly 9,000 jobs were created by their British car manufacturing over the past two years Defender, Defender CV Discovery Evoque, Freelander and Range Rover models are made in Halewood and Solihull If you want to see how are made of guzzling gas their SUV, you can go on a tour of the factory.
Mini Unfortunately, the iconic British car without British property more, being instead a BMW part, however, the Mini models, Clubman and Convertible are all made in Britain to their Oxford, Swindon and Hams Hall plant He was just over 200,000 Minis in Britain in 2012, making it the second car of the most popular British-made My favorite model is the retro look Clubman chocolate brown.
Morgan The only entirely British-owned and British car company made the list only a few hundred cars are made each year at its plant in Malvern, Worcester, where the waiting list for a Morgan can be up to 2 years they Morgan did April 4, shown above, since 1936 and holds the world record for the longest continuous production car model.
Nissan has made over half a million cars in the UK in 2012, including the Juke, Qashqui and all-electric Leaf plant them in Washington, near Sunderland, has made its first car in 1986, and is the large car factory in Britain, employing over 6000 employees Qashqui Nissan was the best selling car of British manufacturing in the UK in 2012, with more than 300,000 have been sold.
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars is a BMW subsidiary since 1999 and makes the Phantom models and the ghost at Goodwood in West Sussex 3,500 cars were made in 2011, up from 31 the previous year Not unsurprisingly, many of they have been exported to Asia and the Middle East, but they still sold a few just in the UK as Rolls-Royce Motor Cars employs more than 1,300 people at its headquarters in Goodwood and in 2012 it employed over 100 youth on industrial investments; he also runs training with graduate successfully and programs.
Toyota factory in Burnaston, Derbyshire and another at Deeside in North Wales Japanese owned company employs more than 3,800 people across its two sites in the UK, and exports about 85 vehicles, it even sends some both Japan and the Auris Avensis are made in Britain.
Vauxhall Astras made 90,000 in Ellesmere Port Cheshire last year by General Motors, Vauxhall Astra was seen in several different forms since 1979, and continues to be one of the best selling models in the UK its latest version, which is due to go into production soon, will see Vauxhall Motors owner General 125m invest in Ellesmere Port plant and create about 700 new jobs.
If you want one of the factories allow you to work by car most of the above mentioned manufacturers to take a tour of their factory Just check their websites for details.
Top 5 best British car manufacturing 2012 sales with the number in parentheses.
Nissan Qashqai 310837 Mini Mini Nissan Juke 207530 154759 112331 Land Rover Evoque 90187 Vauxhall Astra.
Top 5 Bestselling British-made car brands in 2012 the number of cars manufactured in the UK parentheses.
Nissan Land Rover 510572 305467 207530 MINI Toyota Honda 165630 109429.
Must the second issue of gas guzzlers they also make the same more per gallon than the average family hatch ago 20-30 years.
In addition, although the Astra seems to languish with only 90K units per year, compared to the surprising and impressive figure of 310,000 Qashqais facts; as an alternative perspective that if you look at the list of 20 best-selling cars of 2013, the Astra is in 4th place.
Thus, the Astra is the best selling British car for the British.
Qashqai is not far behind in 6th place, Juke 11, Mini 16 times the Peugeot and Insignia were also reportedly on the list, but a genius decided to close two factories that built them.
Another of a Vauxhall is now the oldest British car manufacturer still making products in Britain, 110 years Daimler Oldest but dormant Brand.
Nice to see an article that proves not all high-quality, high price, low volume products to Britain, but always of high quality and high volume too Thank you.
Nice to read about UK manufactured cars I bought British Hondas for the last 13 years and now have the latest Honda Civic which is great, I had both BMW and Mercedes cars as vehicles of company, but kept my Hondas for the weekend not as impressive, reliable and definitely overrated quite interesting the British built Japanese cars are usually found above the reliability tables.
Some good additional facts here James Maybe I should do a better sale of British-made car ever year section.
MG is very well known British brand is now owned by China's SAIC group investing in the Midlands to restore GM Europe manufacturing base here, hopefully with the same success as Nissan, Toyota and Honda's new MG3 supermini is being launched today the style, design and development of engineering were carried from their technical center in the UK and is part of the assembly here and if it sells well, it could be a history of similar success in Swindon, derby and Washington really worth an honorable mention and a watch.
With reference to the article on the British built cars Morgan cars are made in Malvern Worcestershire Worcester not as mentioned.
The history of car manufacturing becomes more complex as the years advance Initially in the beginning a British vehicle used be designed and fully assembled body in white made, painted and assembled engine and gearbox even with all main rooms provided by the same company ie crankshaft, engine block, the trasmission box, gears, steering etc. Dress items for meetings have been outsourced to suppliers who were specialists of the same law namely alternators, Bosch and Denso , to name a few This was the process adopted by most major Rover name, Ford, Vauxall, Landroverer and Jaguar However, there have been gradual changes depending on the philosopy manufactures powerbase and cost Example Rolls new plant in Goodwood, so the vehicle is assembled here in the UK but the engine is made BMW Germany, sub-transmission line dence, BMW does not boxes of his contract speeds as is the norm in the range Thus, the definition of a UK car Morgan subjective, so the body is designed and assembled entirely in Worcestershire in Malvern, but where power of the engine and gearbox from the Rover used to be April 2 cylinder and V8, but now it could be Toyota Manufactures have become very economical with there comments, for obvious reasons, because it becomes a bit embarrasing for admit the truth even at the labor required to run machines and engines and gearboxes assmble could be significantly greater than assemble the car.
It is also easy to forget the less glamorous vehicles such as tractors, vans, trucks, taxis, special vehicles, military vehicles, JCBS, mobile cranes, etc.
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