Car manufacturing returns to London (BBC)

[Radar]

Essentially a warmed over Porsche:

Cars are once again being manufactured in London, although you probably will never see any of the vehicles on the capital’s roads.

Luxury sports cars are now being built at the Park Royal Industrial site in west London before being shipped to wealthy customers in China.

Eterniti head engineer Alastair MacQueen and sales manager Andrew Brown talk about why London’s car manufacturing heritage and image abroad are so important.

Follow this link to see a video report:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-20275737

[Champs]

It’s a shame it’s in London, after all the plant closures up north

[imperialdata]

True but with the company only employing 50 people it’s not going to solve any big employment issues there. They say they manufacture in London because of the prestige image that goes with it.  Moving to Blackpool may drop the luxury image, although you could argue that TVR had its factory there and they did OK (for a while at least).

Damn ugly car though the Infiniti in the video, is it using a Cayenne chassis?  Their Emerg-E looks better:

https://www.infiniti.com/gb/models/future_models/emerg_e.view.gallery.html#

[Gordy]

The more automotive jobs in this country the better in my (not so) humble opinion! The vehicle is not my cup of tea, but if it’s bringing in the money from abroard then it’s a step in the right direction.

[imperialdata]

Oh, absolutely, bring on any manufacturing of any type (apart from missiles and anything with transuranic radioactive chemicals involved ).

You’ve probably read that Coventry-based manufacturer Manganese Bronze (who make the London taxi cabs) is appointing the administrators this week. It would make sense for Infiniti to bang a few luxury versions of these out since they are based in London already.

[Radar]

Oh, absolutely, bring on any manufacturing of any type (apart from missiles and anything with transuranic radioactive chemicals involved ).

You’ve probably read that Coventry-based manufacturer Manganese Bronze (who make the London taxi cabs) is appointing the administrators this week. It would make sense for Infiniti to bang a few luxury versions of these out since they are based in London already.

There is a missle factory on the outskirts of Kidderminster…it caught fire last week…eeek!!

https://www.kidderminstershuttle.co.uk/archive/2012/11/21/001_news_latest_worcester/10060920.So_what_was_the_cause_of_rocket_factory_blaze_/

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