UK is OK - thanks to the Japanese; Despite plant and company closures the country remains a European automaking powerhouse.

Automotive News Europe,  February, 2006  by Feast, Richard

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Byline: Richard Feast

The UK's auto industry has changed beyond recognition since Automotive News Europe made its debut.

In the last 10 years three Japanese newcomers became the country's top car producers as the big, traditional automakers that had dominated car manufacturing in the country since the dawn of motoring contracted or went out of business.

In 1996 Ford Motor, the Rover group and General Motors' Vauxhall brand were the dominant players in the UK's auto industry.

Now the Rover group, once the world's fourth-largest carmaker, is gone. Ford no longer makes ...

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