FabSwingers.com forum: Discovery production to be moved to Slovakia...

By *bi_Astray OP TV/TS
over a year ago

Plymouth

Jaguar Land Rover are to move production of the Discovery to Slovakia, an EU member state with lower wages than the UK... brexit related? Jobs will be lost.Is this the way that most of the car industry will end up?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Well it can't develop any more faults as a result!!

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By *ebjonnsonMan
over a year ago

Maldon

"Jaguar Land Rover are to move production of the Discovery to Slovakia, an EU member state with lower wages than the UK... brexit related? Jobs will be lost.Is this the way that most of the car industry will end up? "

Money related in the same way that Audi build the TT in Hungary. Probably getting an incentive from the Slovakian govt . Hyundai have a factory there and a KIA one close by but over the border in the Czech Republic as they got an incentive from both countries.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's being moved so the Solihull factory can build the new Range Rover.

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By *bi_Astray OP TV/TS
over a year ago

Plymouth

"It's being moved so the Solihull factory can build the new Range Rover."

The Range Rover is already built there though, and the company has said there will be job losses. Not much of a consolation there...

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By *lem-H-FandangoMan
over a year ago

salisbury

So an Indian owned company is taking cars that are world famously British to the armpit of Europe to be assembled by lowly paid workers. Good luck.

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By *ormerWelshcouple2020Man
over a year ago

Stourbridge

I’ve been to the site. 25%of Slovakia’s GDP is based on building cars. Peugeot, Skoda and others are there already. One of the issues they will have however is that they don’t have enough workers living near the factory. It’s originally farmland and they can’t get enough workers for the existing factories.

It’s a bloody big plant.

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By *ulfilthmentMan
over a year ago

Just around the corner

Brexit related in the sense that the forthcoming schism is unlikely to improve JLR’s profit margins here.

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By *tingly ByronMan
over a year ago

In a town Fab forgot

Meanwhile somewhere in Japan someone's moaning about all those Hondas being built in Swindon....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Meanwhile somewhere in Japan someone's moaning about all those Hondas being built in Swindon...."

Don't bring common sense into this argument please. It's not welcome here

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Meanwhile somewhere in Japan someone's moaning about all those Hondas being built in Swindon....

Don't bring common sense into this argument please. It's not welcome here "

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By *iger.10Man
over a year ago

Llantrisant

Purely down to economics - nothing to do with Brexit. Same as, once, South Wales had lots of factories, because it was cheap labour. This us no longer the case compared to other countries. It's all about production/manufacturing costs. Same as people rush to Premark but ignore the garments journey....

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By *tingly ByronMan
over a year ago

In a town Fab forgot

"Meanwhile somewhere in Japan someone's moaning about all those Hondas being built in Swindon....

Don't bring common sense into this argument please. It's not welcome here "

Sorry.

I should have known better....

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By *bi_Astray OP TV/TS
over a year ago

Plymouth

"Meanwhile somewhere in Japan someone's moaning about all those Hondas being built in Swindon...."

Yes, all to avoid those pesky EU import tariffs and restrictions... What happens when those restrictions and tariffs are applied to the vehicles built in this soon to be non EU nation?

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By *tingly ByronMan
over a year ago

In a town Fab forgot

Mini. German. Made in Oxford.

Honda. Japanese. Made in swindon.

Toyota. Japanese. Made in Derbyshire.

Nissan. Japanese. Made in Sunderland.

Rolls Royce. German. Made in West Sussex.

Aston Martin. Kuwait/Italian. Made in Warwickshire.

Bentley. German. Made in Crewe.

Land Rover and Jaguar. Indian. Made in Halewood and Solihull.

Vauxhall. American. Made in Cheshire.

Bastards, coming over here to make their cars, giving UK residents jobs.

Fuckers.....

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By *tingly ByronMan
over a year ago

In a town Fab forgot

"Meanwhile somewhere in Japan someone's moaning about all those Hondas being built in Swindon....

Yes, all to avoid those pesky EU import tariffs and restrictions... What happens when those restrictions and tariffs are applied to the vehicles built in this soon to be non EU nation? "

Manufacturing has always moved around to suit employee wages and national tax breaks.

Bugger all to do with Brexit. Simple business economics.

It's always been the same, everyone does it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Mini. German. Made in Oxford.

Honda. Japanese. Made in swindon.

Toyota. Japanese. Made in Derbyshire.

Nissan. Japanese. Made in Sunderland.

Rolls Royce. German. Made in West Sussex.

Aston Martin. Kuwait/Italian. Made in Warwickshire.

Bentley. German. Made in Crewe.

Land Rover and Jaguar. Indian. Made in Halewood and Solihull.

Vauxhall. American. Made in Cheshire.

Bastards, coming over here to make their cars, giving UK residents jobs.

Fuckers.....

Hate those foreigners !

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By *exyspecs and supermanCouple
over a year ago

A house, a very big house in the country

Does this mean there'll be no more on our roads? Thank god some of the worst drivers....mums clogging up the small villages on the bloody school runs

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By *ormerWelshcouple2020Man
over a year ago

Stourbridge

We make far more cars in the UK than we did during the heyday of Longbridge and Dagenham.

I’ve been in most of the car factories in the UK, in fact I was in Jaguar at Castle Bromwich earlier this year, (they made spitfires and Lancaster bombers there in the war) and had a presentation from Land Rovers head of design , very interesting it was too.

Wales had factories due to huge government subsidies which we had to stop when the EU made it illegal, however it’s not stopped many of the other countries doing it , that’s why many moved out.

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By *htcMan
over a year ago

Cheap labour. I get told by many people from the EU. What big companies pay in there home country. in the EU they can pay 3-5 hours for that one hour at UK rate. Cheap more profits.

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By *iss.ddWoman
over a year ago

Leeds + Newcastle

Jobs won't be lost, they are retooling the factory to produce the electric Land Rover

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By *ormerWelshcouple2020Man
over a year ago

Stourbridge

Saw the new electric Land Rover this morning on the motorway. Wasn’t camouflaged just had a sign saying prototype vehicle. Looks the same just has a plug point and a decal of a three pin plug.

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