Britain’s car industry gets a Mini boost but faces major problems
BMW announces a welcome investment. But the road ahead looks bumpy
BRITAIN’S car industry has been running at high revs. Over 1.7m vehicles rolled off production lines last year, the most since 1999. If growth continued at recent rates, the all-time record of 1.9m, set in 1972, would be broken within a couple of years. On July 25th BMW, which owns the Mini brand, announced that it would build an all-electric model of the compact car in Oxford from 2019, rather than making it in the Netherlands, as it had threatened in the wake of the Brexit referendum.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Mini boost, major problems”
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