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    UNSOLD CARS AROUND THE WORLD

    http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/84313837/getty-images-news

     

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    Nissan has announced plans to cut its Sunderland workforce by 1,200. Thousands of unsold cars are stored around the factory's test track


     

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    Honda is halting production at its Swindon plant in April and May, extending the two-month closure announced before Christmas to four months. Honda and Japanese rival Toyota are both cutting production in Japan and elsewhere. Pictured, Hondas await export at a pier in Tokyo


     

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    Earlier this week Jaguar Land Rover said 450 British jobs would go


     

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    The open car storage areas in Corby , Northamptonshire, are reaching full capacity


     

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    Imported cars stored at Sheerness open storage area awaiting delivery to dealers


     

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    Newly imported cars fill the 150-acre site at the Toyota distribution centre in Long Beach , California


     

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    The build-up of imported cars at the port of Newark , New Jersey


     

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    Stocks of Ford trucks in Detroit , Michigan


     

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    New cars jam the dockside in the port of Valencia in Spain


     

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    Peugeot cars await shipment to Italian dealers at the port of Civitavecchia


     

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    Unsold cars at Avonmouth Docks near Bristol


     

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    With many manufacturers on extended Christmas shutdown, the number of cars rolling off production lines in December fell 47.5% to just 53,823


     

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    Thousands of new cars are stored on the runway at the disused Upper Heyford airbase near Bicester, Oxfordshire, on December 18, 2008.


     

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    Sales of new cars in the UK have slumped to a 12-year-low and production of cars at Honda in Swindon has been halted for a unprecedented four-month period because of the collapse in global sales and represents the longest continuous halt in production at any UK car plant. The announcement comes on a day when the EU's Industry Commissioner Guenter Verheugen warned the outlook for the European car industry was 'brutal' and predicted not all European manufacturers would survive the crisis.

     

     

     

     

    • 27 February 2009
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