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Honda cutting production in Swindon again – 500 jobs at risk

Honda is cutting another 500 jobs in Swindon It’s only a year since Honda announced 800 job cuts at Swindon (which eventually was 550) and now they’re about to cut a further 500 as weak demand – particularly in Europe – sees the Swindon plant producing just half the cars it could. The plan is to cut shifts from 3 to 2 a day, which will result in the loss of 340 permanent jobs and 160 temporary ones, and production will be centred on just one production line to increase efficiency and flexibility. The Swindon Plant – which builds the Civic, Civic Tourer, CR-V and Jazz (and the Civic Type-R from next year) – has been hard hit by the slump in European sales in the last five years and, despite still strong UK sales, production levels of 120,000 cars a year – just half of the Swindon capacity – are not enough to sustain the current staffing levels.

Mazda Kiyora concept (2008): first pictures

By Ben Pulman First Official Pictures 04 September 2008 10:26 The Mazda Kiyora is the latest Nagare ‘flow’ concept, and previews an all-new Mazda city car that could be in production as early as 2010 if public reaction is positive enough. The Kiyora will be revealed at the Paris motor show and continues Mazda’s latest vision of ‘Sustainable Zoom-Zoom’. Clean and pure, apparently.

RCA/Kia - Venus 2049

Automark Andrea Mocellin Dealing with illusion and metaphor to discover ‘the beauty behind the mask and live it', Mocellin's creation is a personal introspection about an immortal city like Venice, where tradition and mystery generates a unique mix between emotions and perceptions. The nucleus that lives inside the vertical sculpture is a dynamic fade in of glass that generates infinitive ways to investigate the object and discover it. Jinsung Kim This project is about experience of beauty through material, namely clay, one of nature's elements.