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Professional services company KPMG is forecasting an increase in jobs in the automotive sector. John Leech, KPMG’s UK head of automotive said it was seeing rising levels of interest from companies who wanted to invest in the sector...

UK car production rose 3.1% in 2013 to 1,509,762 units, a six-year high. Cars produced for the domestic market rose 21.8% during the year while those for export fell 1%. SMMT chief executive...

UK car production fell 3.6% to 137,624 units in November but year to date is ahead 4.5%, to 1.4m vehicles, according to figures from the SMMT. It has been a strong year for manufacturing with full year output set to pass 1.5 million units for the first time in six years.

Figures released by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) today show a strong increase in car production in September. Car manufacturing rose by 7.5 per cent for the month and is up 4.8 per cent over the first nine months of 2011. Vehicle output also rose in September, up 6.2 per cent but was down 2.7 per cent year to date...

Car production fell 4.9 in May but overall in the year to date is ahead 4.6 per cent, according to figures released by the SMMT. CV production was down 5 per cent in May and 5.5 per cent in the first five months of the year.

Vehicle production in the EU rose by 15 per cent in the first nine months of 2010 compared to the same period in 2009. Passenger car production increased by 13 per cent over the priod, softening 5 per cent in the third quarter, according to the European Union Economic Report published by carmaker trade body Acea.

Honda has announced that car production at its Swindon plant will stop for 35 days in April and May because of the collapse in global demand.

Honda is the latest carmaker to announce production cuts after axing volumes at its Swindon plant.