Toyota to build Suzuki car in UK
Natalie MacDonald
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Natalie MacDonald
Senior News Editor, Special Projects Lead - APAC @ LinkedIn | Currently on parental leave
Toyota will produce a new hybrid electric vehicle for Suzuki at its Burnaston plant in Derbyshire in a boon for the UK car industry. Expected to go into production next year, the hybrid will use engines from Toyota’s North Wales facility, with electric components imported from Japan — becoming the first car the Japanese carmaker will have produced in Britain. Last month, Honda announced as many as 7,000 jobs could be lost as a result of the closure of its Swindon plant.
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I'm sceptical about this, hasn't Japan just negotiated free trade into the EU - it's already been said we were a good partner because it was cheaper to import from the UK to EU than Japan to EU, that's not the case anymore, struggling to make sense of this myself. Seems like a token gesture in the face of other large manufacturing sites being closed down.