[BITList] Unsold cars around the world

[John Feltham]

Recession in pictures





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.








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Bad typists of the word, untie.




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