Last year it was MG/Rover going bust (though a Chinese company has said they might restart limited production using Chinese made parts), then Peugot closed its UK factory, and now Vauxhall is slashing 1000 jobs. The UK car industry hasn't gotten a break in 30 years.
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Yet more loses for Britain's car industry.
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You fascists are ignoring the REAL issue here. The liberalconservative biased media which is clearly back by Big Oil and their Gas Guzzling counterparts (the car industry) are keeping the focus solely on them.
Nobody is focusing on the hell that the Horse and Buggy industry has had to go through in the past decade.
Ok, sorry I just really wanted to pretend I was an angsty teenager again. But yeah how does the UK have room fora car industry, aren't approximately as large as Oregon?
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Originally posted by Brachy-Pride
I dont know any british car."The French caused the war [Persian Gulf war, 1991]" - Ned
"you people who bash Bush have no appreciation for one of the great presidents in our history." - Ned
"I wish I had gay sex in the boy scouts" - Dissident
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Amusingly, one reason being banded about is that the UK is suffering from it being too easy to sack workers. So the French and Germans get to keep their workers making their cars because they can't be sacked.One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.
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How are you supposed to grow in fat times and cut back in lean times if you can't sack workers? Don't those silly continentals realize that preventing the sacking of workers just limits the HIRING of workers, thus decreasing employment<Reverend> IRC is just multiplayer notepad.
I like your SNOOPY POSTER! - While you Wait quote.
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Originally posted by bipolarbear
Nobody is focusing on the hell that the Horse and Buggy industry has had to go through in the past decade.
You know, at one time there must've been dozens of companies making buggy whips. And I'll bet the last company around was the one that made the best goddamn buggy whip you ever saw. Now how would you have liked to have been a stockholder in that company? You invested in a business and this business is dead. Lets have the intelligence, lets have the DECENCY to sign the death certificate, collect the insurance, and invest in something with a future.
-- Lawrence Garfield (DD), Other People's Money
"I have as much authority as the pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it." — George Carlin
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Originally posted by Kontiki
You've never heard of Jaguar, Aston Martin, Rolls Royce, Bentley or Range Rover? Granted, none of those are British owned any more, but they're all traditionally British brands.
Astras aren't bad, it's just that the Ford Focus and some of the Japanese alternatives are rather better.
The one about it being cheaper to close factories in Britain has been around for a couple of decades. The decision is usually more about the cost of manufacturing in a particular country and whether the unions will agree a new deal or not.
The basic problem is that the car manufacturers in Europe have been making more cars than they can sell for several years.Never give an AI an even break.
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