Worrying times ahead - me thinks

Came accross this article -

Quote:

Ford has cut back to a four-day week until Christmas at its Transit van plant in Southampton, as has Land Rover at its plant in Solihull

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/busi...864257.ece

Also local LR dealer making sales staff redundant

been on a 4 day week for a while, they have also sent a few to the Jag plant to help with the new XF

Personally i think it would be better to slow production lines down keep on 5 day week and build the cars better Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

VW's factory at Crewe recently went onto a 3 day week due to lack of sales of the Phaeton Continental and Continental GT How can carbon have a footprint, it has no feet?
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There's been a piece on sky news
It could be worse if Tata decides to transfer the Range Rover production as a whole, overseas. If sales in this country are low, but demand in India and China is high, it would be logical to move manufacture to India.

That would indeed be a savage blow - so many jobs in this country would be lost, and the prestige of losing the production of the world's finest 4 x 4 would be very damaging.

These are turbulent times in the global Financial markets. We could yet see similar mind-boggling changes in the car producing world.

Lets hope not

The USA is now the place to move your engineering company to............... due to the Dollar being so low, it's cheaper to manufacture in the USA now than in China or India! How can carbon have a footprint, it has no feet?
Now driving - RRE Coupe Dynamic Lux Auto with Plus pack, Fuji White, Ebony, SD4 with tow pack
Gone - 2010MY FFRR TDv8 Stornoway and Ivory, Privacy - the pace of a TDv8 RRS, the incomparable grace of a Range Rover
Gone but will be missed- RRS Tdv8 HSE Stornoway Grey with Ebony Leather
Gone (only a little missed) RRS Tdv6 2.7SE Giverny Green/Aspen
Defender 90 County HT in Epsom Green