Sad to say this is confirmed - just wait to hear details now.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-48533790 Andrew

It was only a matter of time........they closed Warley head office recently and it won’t be long before the last Ford facility (Dunton R&E Centre) goes the same way, oh guess what Belgium, Germany, Spain and Turkey are doing fine  Regards

David

Lovely i6 has now gone, but not me......

Please let me know if anything in my post offends you, as I may wish to offend you again......

I hate to say it but what with this and the steel industry all this crap about brexit no money for the police or hospitals GP surgeries closing at an alarming rate this country is pretty much screwed.

But at least we have “taken back control”, whatever tangible benefit that might actually give us

Maybe if we had left when we should have instead of all these delaying tactics by so called democratic political parties all this might have been sorted but we'll never know.

On the subject of Ford btw , closure has been long awaited according to a relative of mine it's been like a axe hanging over them well before BrExit but hey why not use new excuses when they've worn the old ones out.



 If it wasn't so bad it'd be funny.

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Freelander 2 HSE auto 2014 ( Florrie ) ..... Try again.
Freelander 2 GS 2012...... Gone.

^^ Well said JulesK  MY13 HSE Lux.......faultless since new.

There is a possibility the plant may be taken over by Ineos (Projekt Grenadier). But don't hold your breath - all their development work has gone to Germany so far. In a way it makes sense for Ineos to use a UK plant as they are UK based, but on the other hand they hope to sell around the world, and most countries will have a better trade deal with the EU than with the UK if B****t goes ahead. Plus they will be using BMW engines, so assembly somewhere in E Europe has to be the favourite. Ex AA Series III LWB Safari - Gone
300TDi Disco (bought new - terrible car) sent back after 18 months
Freelander 1 Estate - leased, given back at end of lease
200TDi Disco (bought from a mate with 100,000 on the clock) - Gone
Disco 2 TD5 - sold and exported to France
FR2 TD4 GS - Gone
FR2 SD4 HSE - Now changed for a DS
New model ex-demo Evoque S 180 in white
Unable to order a new DS, so gave up. Now have a Volvo S90 Recharge.

We built quite a few cars down under. On the whole they were well built. Just one problem, we were building the wrong cars so could never sell enough to make it worthwhile.

Then the Australian dollar got completely over valued for too long so that also stuffed things up and closed some of the manufacturers.

Over the decades one manufacturer after another shut up shop.

Everyone bought SUVs when we were making sedans, now for the last few years everyone is buying dualcabs. You can't keep up!

Too smaller market changing tastes too quickly! Procrastination, mankind's greatest labour saving device!

Acoustic insulation ARB TPMS 3xARB air compressors After cooler Air tank On-board OCD pressure air/water cleaning Additional 50L fuel Carpet in doors ABE 2x1kg Waeco 28L modified fridge Battery 4x26ah Solar 120w Victron MPPT 100/20 DC-DC 18amps 175amp jumper plug Awning 6x255/60R18

Be very interesting to see who this bunch in Cardiff Bay throw a grant at next!!!!

Useless utterly useless as everyone saw this week £114m to tell us we cannot have a road.



 If it wasn't so bad it'd be funny.

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Freelander 2 HSE auto 2014 ( Florrie ) ..... Try again.
Freelander 2 GS 2012...... Gone.

SouthamFL2 wrote:

^^ Well said JulesK

Well Thank you, kind Sir  If it wasn't so bad it'd be funny.

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Freelander 2 HSE auto 2014 ( Florrie ) ..... Try again.
Freelander 2 GS 2012...... Gone.

JulesK wrote:

Maybe if we had left when we should have instead of all these delaying tactics by so called democratic political parties all this might have been sorted but we'll never know.

Think I will just leave it there as we were discussing a single plant not the whole automotive industry  If it wasn't so bad it'd be funny.

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Freelander 2 HSE auto 2014 ( Florrie ) ..... Try again.
Freelander 2 GS 2012...... Gone.

There will be plenty of jobs picking spuds for the Ford boys when we send all the Poles back after we leave the euro zone, they voted to leave in there masses in the Welsh valleys

A sad end to a once world class engineering facility.

Unfortunately the car world is going through quite a revolution, both in engineering and 'growing' markets.

We are well on our way to living in a smaller market, where we will have little influence. FL2 XS SD4 Auto 2010 2012-2017 (21k - 91k miles) (MY2011)
FL2 Metropolis SD4 Auto 2014 2017- (16k - 76k+ miles) (MY2015)

Ford wanted to close Bridgend years (and I mean many years) ago, they also had a (tentative) plan to move engineering development at Dunton to Germany and design at Dunton to the Mazda design centre in Japan, this was 10 years ago at least, don’t ask how I know just believe me......I got out almost 7 years ago now on an early retirement scheme, dodged the bullet there for sure!

It has always been easier to close plants and make redundancies in Britain than Germany due to regulations put in place by the German Government and the Unions (workers council) hence the cuts never touched them, and they and their Workers Council basked in that knowledge since day one.

This has nothing to do with B****t......more to do with Bull5h1t  Regards

David

Lovely i6 has now gone, but not me......

Please let me know if anything in my post offends you, as I may wish to offend you again......