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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.

Infiniti M35h a ‘Great Drive’. Really?

Infiniti M35h Hybrid - targeting the Lexus GS 450h Infiniti, in case you don’t know, is to Nissan what Lexus is to Toyota. The posh badge for a Japanese mass manufacturer. Unlike Lexus, Infinitis are only sold outside Japan.

Jaguar XFR Review – Top Gear Video

Top Gear did a review of the Jaguar XFR this week Update: We’ve now had the chance to do a Jaguar XKR Review for ourselves, and it was worth the wait. Lots of info and lots of pictures. And a lot of fun  – smokin’ tyres an’ all!