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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

BBC report - California's car crisis

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Biggest Car Crisis Happend in 2008



Look at the unsold cars around the world.

This Time is real bad..........

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Nissan has announced plans to cut its Sunderland

workforce by 1,200.

Thousands of unsold cars are stored around the

factory's test track

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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

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The open car storage areas in Corby ,

Northamptonshire, are reaching
full capacity



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Imported cars stored at Sheerness open storage

area awaiting delivery to
dealers



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Newly imported cars fill the 150-acre site at the Toyota distribution
centre in Long Beach , California


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The build-up of imported cars at the port of Newark

, New Jersey

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Stocks of Ford trucks in Detroit , Michigan

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New cars jam the dockside in the port of Valencia in Spain



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Peugeot cars await shipment to Italian dealers at the port of
Civitavecchia



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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

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Thousands of new cars are stored on the runway at the

disused Upper Heyford airbase near Bicester,

Oxfordshire, on December 18, 2008.


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Sales of new cars in the UK have slumped to a 12-year-low and

productionof cars at Honda in Swindon has been halted for

a unprecedented four-month period because of the collapse

in global sales and representsthe 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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