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The UK’s new car production in 2009 was down 30.9 per cent year on year.

At the start of 2009, many UK plants were temporarily shut down amid falling sales caused by the global credit crisis. But sales have since recovered, mainly boosted by the government-backed scrappage incentive scheme, and December’s production saw the biggest year-on-year gain since May 1976.

The SMMT’s chief executive, Paul Everitt, expects 2010 to be challenging, but is confident it will be a better year th...Read the full article

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But sales have since recovered, mainly boosted by the government-backed scrappage incentive scheme

I thought most scrappage cars were built in Korea. And i didnt think many Land Rovers and Jags were. I dount too many of the UK built Hondas and Toyotas were either.

 

 A lot of these statistical reports seem to lament the fact that car production is not as high as it was before the recession. Surely the last thing we want is to return to the days of massive over-production of new cars, and ridiculous levels of debt driven car sales.