Someone in the German business news brought up a piece from 10 days ago....that the German car industry is the one mostly affected by this no-deal situation. They were talking of the idea that German car plants would go to a month-long of a summer-shutdown or running just one-single shift for several months this summer, if no-deal is the outcome.
Overall, if no deal is the outcome, I’d predict a recession by late summer for most of the EU.
err.. which "British" cars? The Best selling car brands in 2017 were
The top 40 best-selling car marques in Britain in 2017 according to new passenger vehicle registration data released by the SMMT were:
Car Marque | 2017 | 2016 | % Change | % Market share | |
Total UK Market | 2,540,617 | 2,692,786 | -5.65 | 100 | |
1 | Ford | 287,396 | 318,316 | -9.71 | 11.31 |
2 | Volkswagen | 208,462 | 207,028 | 0.69 | 8.21 |
3 | Vauxhall | 195,137 | 250,955 | -22.24 | 7.68 |
4 | Mercedes-Benz | 180,970 | 169,828 | 6.56 | 7.12 |
5 | BMW | 175,101 | 182,593 | -4.1 | 6.89 |
6 | Audi | 174,982 | 177,304 | -1.31 | 6.89 |
7 | Nissan | 151,156 | 152,525 | -0.9 | 5.95 |
8 | Toyota | 101,985 | 96,746 | 5.42 | 4.01 |
9 | Hyundai | 93,403 | 92,419 | 1.06 | 3.68 |
10 | Kia | 93,222 | 89,364 | 4.32 | 3.67 |
11 | Land Rover | 82,653 | 79,534 | 3.92 | 3.25 |
12 | Peugeot | 82,226 | 98,529 | -16.55 | 3.24 |
13 | Skoda | 79,758 | 80,372 | -0.76 | 3.14 |
14 | Renault | 69,110 | 85,102 | -18.79 | 2.72 |
15 | MINI | 68,166 | 68,984 | -1.19 | 2.68 |
16 | SEAT | 56,130 | 47,456 | 18.28 | 2.21 |
17 | Honda | 53,901 | 59,106 | -8.81 | 2.12 |
18 | Citroen | 51,455 | 62,991 | -18.31 | 2.03 |
19 | Volvo | 46,139 | 46,696 | -1.19 | 1.82 |
20 | Fiat | 44,475 | 60,581 | -26.59 | 1.75 |
21 | Suzuki | 40,343 | 38,167 | 5.7 | 1.59 |
22 | Mazda | 39,092 | 46,609 | -16.13 | 1.54 |
23 | Jaguar | 35,544 | 34,822 | 2.07 | 1.4 |
24 | Dacia | 25,149 | 26,499 | -5.09 | 0.99 |
25 | Mitsubishi | 16,092 | 18,237 | -11.76 | 0.63 |
26 | Porsche | 14,051 | 13,097 | 7.28 | 0.55 |
27 | Lexus | 12,670 | 13,915 | -8.95 | 0.5 |
28 | smart | 10,323 | 12,020 | -14.12 | 0.41 |
29 | DS | 9,082 | 15,898 | -42.87 | 0.36 |
30 | Jeep | 6,380 | 14,090 | -54.72 | 0.25 |
31 | Alfa Romeo | 4,997 | 4,881 | 2.38 | 0.2 |
32 | Abarth | 4,441 | 3,966 | 11.98 | 0.17 |
33 | MG | 4,441 | 4,192 | 5.94 | 0.17 |
34 | Ssangyong | 3,590 | 4,444 | -19.22 | 0.14 |
35 | Infiniti | 3,515 | 2,891 | 21.58 | 0.14 |
36 | Subaru | 2,679 | 3,612 | -25.83 | 0.11 |
37 | Bentley | 1,753 | 1,948 | -10.01 | 0.07 |
38 | Maserati | 1,701 | 1,435 | 18.54 | 0.07 |
39 | Aston Martin | 1,471 | 906 | 62.36 | 0.06 |
40 | McLaren | 567 | 18 | 3050 | 0.02 |
Other Imports | 5,860 | 3,542 | 65.44 | 0.23 | |
Other British | 700 | 825 | -15.15 | 0.03 | |
Source: SMMT |
The first "british" brand is #3 Vauxhall and that's owned by Opel, a Franco-German company. Then you have #11 Land Rover that is owned by an indian company, then #15 Mini that is owned by BMW
There aren't any "British car companies" of size at all.
Vauxhall are assembled in Luton from parts made in France, Italy etc.
Ditto for Rover and even more so for Mini (which uses the BMW platform). Japanese and Korean cars may become cheaper, yes -