The UK car industry is, of course, doomed. First we lost our native manufacturers and then, post Brexit, overseas manufacturers like Honda started to close down their UK factories, too. Finally came the farce of BritishVolt: the Tyneside factory which was going to transform the UK car industry by pumping out batteries, but collapsed before a spade could be put into the ground (what there is to buy, which is little more than a plot of land, has since been bought by an Australian company).
Light commercial vehicles are on the ascendant as online shopping expands the market for deliveries
The above narrative has become so engrained that it comes as a shock when a set of figures emerges to contradict it. But today the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) reports that car manufacturing was up 6.0 per cent in the first three months of the year compared with the same period in 2022.
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