Toyota, Honda, Nissan stopped production in 2009
- February 13th, 2009
- Posted in Business . Cars
- By Talal Masood
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With the start of year 2009 all the car manufacturing companies are going from bad to worst. Since November 2008 all the car manufacturing companies have stopped the production of car in year 2009. Recenly Honda, Nissan, Toyota, Ford, Jaguar, Peugeot, and others have cut down jobs in varies plants around the world. An estimated cut-off of jobs by these companies are over 125,000. One of my friend Ali Rehman send me an email with the following data which I would like to share with you people.
now you know why car companies are losing money or close to it…………
Nissan has announced plans to cut its Sunderland workforce by 1,200. Thousands of unsold cars are stored around the factory’s test track
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.
Earlier this week Jaguar Land Rover said 450 British jobs would go.
The open car storage areas in Corby , Northamptonshire, are reaching full capacity.
Imported cars stored at Sheerness open storage area awaiting delivery to dealers.
Newly imported cars fill the 150-acre site at the Toyota distribution centre in Long Beach , California.
The build-up of imported cars at the port of Newark , New Jersey.
Stocks of Ford trucks in Detroit , Michigan.
New cars jam the dockside in the port of Valencia in Spain.
Peugeot cars await shipment to Italian dealers at the port of Civitavecchia.
Unsold cars at Avonmouth Docks near Bristol.
With many manufacturers on extended Christmas shutdown, the number of cars rolling off production lines in December fell 47.5% to just 53,823.
Thousands of new cars are stored on the runway at the disused Upper Heyford airbase near Bicester, Oxfordshire, on December 18, 2008.
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.
i love new cars specially those prototype ones that have some out of this world feature-~,