Over the last year Britain produced 1.71 million cars, nearly 50 per cent more than in 2010 Nigel Roddis/ReutersThe foot came off the accelerator in UK car production last month with the number of motors coming off British assembly lines up by just 0.9 per cent. Car plants led by Nissan in Sunderland, Jaguar Land Rover in the Midlands and on Merseyside, Mini in Oxford and Vauxhall in Ellesmere Port produced just short of 160,000 cars in September, 1,500 more than in the same month last year. That represents a sharp downturn on production earlier in the year. In the first nine months of 2016, output is up 10.5 per cent at 1.29 million. Within that more than…

Source: The Times October 27, 2016 05:51 UTC