UK Car Production By Make: 1997-2012

Few mature car making countries have had such change as has the British car industry. Let's look at the reasons, one by one:

Poor management: The running of MGR by both BMW and the Phoenix Four left much to be desired, the company therefore going under and ending up in China.

Plant closures: Ford desided to make the UK the engine making hub for Ford Europe, finishing car making in the UK. Peugeot opened plants in Central Europe and then decided to end many years of car making at Coventry.

New arrivals: Out of the MGR debacle came the MINI, a success beyond expectation.

The future: Nissan (pic above), MINI and LR are near or at capacity. Honda, Toyota, GM and Jaguar could increase, but the Euro zone crisis will mean that will be limited at best. Any growth in these difficult times will be quite an achievement, so I cannot see too much improvement from where it is now.

Enough of the talk, here are the hard facts. Only main brands are included and production figures are rounded for ease of viewing:

Yr	Total	Nissan	Toyota	GM Vx	L Rover	Honda
97	1,711,900	271,700	104,600	284,500	106,900	108,100
98	1,760,700	288,800	172,300	277,300	149,300	112,100
99	1,799,000	271,200	178,700	339,000	154,300	114,500
00	1,641,400	327,700	171,300	290,100	160,000	74,600
01	1,492,400	296,500	154,800	193,700	139,000	112,500
02	1,629,700	297,300	211,700	138,500	155,400	177,000
03	1,657,600	331,900	210,600	133,600	147,500	184,700
04	1,647,200	319,700	244,800	146,900	149,800	193,500
05	1,596,400	315,300	264,300	189,400	175,900	187,000
06	1,442,100	301,200	282,200	143,700	175,700	184,400
07	1,534,600	353,700	277,800	115,500	232,500	237,800
08	1,448,100	386,600	213,300	102,500	185,900	230,900
09	999,400	338,200	127,400	76,700	114,600	75,600
10	1,274,300	423,300	137,100	102,700	183,000	139,300
11	1,343,800	480,500	128,100	138,000	237,200	97,500
Tot	22,978,600	5,003,600	2,879,000	2,672,100	2,467,000	2,229,500
Avg	1,531,900	333,600	191,900	178,100	164,500	148,600

Yr	MINI	MG R	Peugeot	Jaguar	Ford	Other
97	-	394,600	85,000	43,600	302,100	10,800
98	-	328,600	71,400	50,000	298,500	12,400
99	-	225,800	162,600	86,300	255,100	11,500
00	-	174,900	186,100	88,800	155,100	12,800
01	41,500	163,100	186,100	122,500	72,700	10,000
02	159,800	147,000	197,700	122,900	12,900	9,500
03	174,200	132,800	207,200	126,100	-	9,000
04	189,100	106,100	173,100	105,500	-	18,700
05	200,200	29,100	126,500	84,000	-	24,700
06	184,700	-	75,400	69,900	-	24,900
07	237,700	-	-	54,000	-	25,600
08	234,500	-	-	72,700	-	21,700
09	213,600	-	-	41,800	-	11,500
10	216,300	-	-	56,400	-	16,200
11	191,500	-	-	49,900	-	21,100
Tot	2,043,100	1,702,000	1,471,100	1,174,400	1,096,400	240,400
Avg	198,400	205,100	152,400	78,300	215,000	16,000