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It looks very much as though there will be a lot of infrastructure for the manufacturing of cars going begging here soon. That as well a large highly skilled modern workforce.
It could be an opportunity... |
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Bring back the Austin Allegro, Morris Maxi, Hillman Imp and the Rover P5.... i miss the sight of people like John Cleese battering the shit out of their British made cars with a tree branch  |
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"let.s start makings car.s again in Britain ."
Do you have the slightest concept of the amount of investment needed and the time required to design a modern vehicle? Just writing the safety critical software for brake control will cost millions and take a couple of years to validate. It's not a bloody garden shed industry any more.
If you've got a couple of billion to invest and can wait five years before your first sale, then go right ahead.
Yes little specialist high value performance car companies do exist, they hand make vehicles, employ three people and sell five cars a year at quarter a million pounds each. And what are the other 2997 people being made redundant at Honda going to do for jobs? |
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"It looks very much as though there will be a lot of infrastructure for the manufacturing of cars going begging here soon. That as well a large highly skilled modern workforce.
It could be an opportunity..."
You can't take a redundant Honda Civic manufacturing plant and just start churning out Montegos and Maestros  |
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And to be brutally honest ........Britain will be dead in the water before planning permission is granted . Pre and post Brexit alienation if anyone who disagrees is the saddest thing of this era , no informed discussions just abuse , the 7 labour MPs yesterday , are vilified , Boris pockets £millions from Garden Bridge ? Not a DickyBird , complain about Brexit .... you lost get over it ..... Robin Cook ,one of few Labour MPs with a shred of common sense and real human values forecast this Armageddon we are experiencing |
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"Bring back the Austin Allegro, Morris Maxi, Hillman Imp and the Rover P5.... i miss the sight of people like John Cleese battering the shit out of their British made cars with a tree branch "
don’t forget the Austin Princess........andcwe wonder why we all bought Datsuns and Cortinas |
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I'd love to see everyday mass production UK car brands but in my time of driving they were all shit unfortunately.
Now the only UK brand cars left are the niche market. |
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"Bring back the Austin Allegro, Morris Maxi, Hillman Imp and the Rover P5.... i miss the sight of people like John Cleese battering the shit out of their British made cars with a tree branch don’t forget the Austin Princess........andcwe wonder why we all bought Datsuns and Cortinas"
Oh ans the Marina....best advert for Mazda and Toyota ever in this country |
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By *ostafunMan
over a year ago
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"And to be brutally honest ........Britain will be dead in the water before planning permission is granted . Pre and post Brexit alienation if anyone who disagrees is the saddest thing of this era , no informed discussions just abuse , the 7 labour MPs yesterday , are vilified , Boris pockets £millions from Garden Bridge ? Not a DickyBird , complain about Brexit .... you lost get over it ..... Robin Cook ,one of few Labour MPs with a shred of common sense and real human values forecast this Armageddon we are experiencing "
Armageddon? bit dramatic .  |
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"And to be brutally honest ........Britain will be dead in the water before planning permission is granted . Pre and post Brexit alienation if anyone who disagrees is the saddest thing of this era , no informed discussions just abuse , the 7 labour MPs yesterday , are vilified , Boris pockets £millions from Garden Bridge ? Not a DickyBird , complain about Brexit .... you lost get over it ..... Robin Cook ,one of few Labour MPs with a shred of common sense and real human values forecast this Armageddon we are experiencing
Armageddon? bit dramatic . "
Yes, words like this don't help shake off the woes from the Remain campaign. It may be very damaging yes, Armageddon no. |
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The real concern should be that there has not been a British owned mass production car brand / plant for decades !
Overseas brands will always withdraw in tough times.
The city of London is awash with money but turned its back on car production back in the 70’s due to labour issues. Nice one Red Robbo! |
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By *oi_LucyCouple
over a year ago
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"The real concern should be that there has not been a British owned mass production car brand / plant for decades !
Overseas brands will always withdraw in tough times.
The city of London is awash with money but turned its back on car production back in the 70’s due to labour issues. Nice one Red Robbo!"
Yes, but this would be a massive undertaking to start now. What was the last 'new' mass produced car brand? I'd probably say Tesla is the closest. Look at the size of that operation and the headwinds they faced from the existing automotive sector in their business model. Think about the sheer amount of investment that takes to get running.
Who would we get to do that in the UK? All our own billionaires are fucking off overseas.
The closest I've seen to this is Kalashnikov's CV-1. Yes. The makers of the AK-47.... they unveiled an electric car last year styled on a Lada Riva bot brought into this century to compete with the Tesla.
And put this all in the wider global context that private car ownership is going to be a thing of the past in the future. We'd be better off concentrating on bypassing cars completely and going straight for some kind of autonomous pod or something.
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"It looks very much as though there will be a lot of infrastructure for the manufacturing of cars going begging here soon. That as well a large highly skilled modern workforce.
It could be an opportunity..."
Dyson will save us ... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Too expensive! So much cheap labour in Eastern Europe.
Warehouse workers in Macedonia- two euro per hour."
How is it feasible to build cars here then?
Scrap the ludicrous £100 billion hs2 bollocks then
Buy out the swindon plant and build our own cars!
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By *ostafunMan
over a year ago
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so car production has run its course in the uk,we are a fluid country that adapts otherwise we would still have cotton mills,steel mills coal mines etc.Because we didnt have any british car manufactures we were always going to be in a precarious position. |
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By *oo hotCouple
over a year ago
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"so car production has run its course in the uk,we are a fluid country that adapts otherwise we would still have cotton mills,steel mills coal mines etc.Because we didnt have any british car manufactures we were always going to be in a precarious position."
Think about what you have written. What do you mean by “we didn’t have any British car manufacturers”?
The world’s companies are in the main “owned” by multinational shareholders these days. The opposing logic to what you have said is that any company that is not 100% owned by resident shareholders is essentially carpetbagging the host nation.
I am not sure that is correct and in the case of automotive manufacturing - it was our access to the European Community that attracted the business in the first place. Remove that attraction and yes, the business model looks shaky irrespective of who owns the company concerned.
It is the duty and responsibility of a government to create the right kind of business environment to attract new investment. Clearly, for some unknown reason (lol) this government is creating an unfavourable environment. |
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"Bring back the Austin Allegro, Morris Maxi, Hillman Imp and the Rover P5.... i miss the sight of people like John Cleese battering the shit out of their British made cars with a tree branch don’t forget the Austin Princess........andcwe wonder why we all bought Datsuns and Cortinas"
Yes we all bought Datsuns and watched them disintegrate from all the rust!?? |
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By *oi_LucyCouple
over a year ago
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"so car production has run its course in the uk,we are a fluid country that adapts otherwise we would still have cotton mills,steel mills coal mines etc.Because we didnt have any british car manufactures we were always going to be in a precarious position."
Yes, we have adapted to the modern world in which we live. We have adapted to becoming a specialist in high tech engineering, knowledge work, and financial services.
But the hard line brexiteers think that the world is still 1950 and so don't care about that.
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"The real concern should be that there has not been a British owned mass production car brand / plant for decades !
Overseas brands will always withdraw in tough times.
The city of London is awash with money but turned its back on car production back in the 70’s due to labour issues. Nice one Red Robbo!"
And the fact that our products were abysmal |
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