UK Car Production Slumps To Lowest Level Since 1956 | Carscoops carscoops
is in bad shape. New figures reveal that vehicle production in the country has dropped to the lowest level since 1956.
A total of 775,014 cars were built in the UK during 2022, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders . That number was down 10 percent from the 859,575 vehicles produced in 2021, which was already a shockingly bad year for the industry. The 2022 figure is also down over 40 percent versus the total for 2019, the last year unaffected by COVID and semiconductor shortages. Britain’s car plants made 1.3 million cars that year, andhas been struggling to recover since, though it hopes to hit the 1 million-unit mark again in 2025.
Both COVID and, to a greater extent, the chip crisis were certainly limiting factors during 2022, but the SMMT also lays blame with Stellantis’s decision to axe Vauxhall Astra production April 2022 in favor of producing electric vans at the same site. That move came less than a year after Honda chose to close its factory in Swindon, which also contributed massively to last year’s slump.
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