Vehicle production in the UK fell to its lowest level in 73 years in 2025, a turbulent 12 months that included a tariff battle and the biggest cyber attack the industry has ever experienced.
Last year, 764,715 vehicles rolled off production lines in the UK, which was 150,000 fewer than in 2024 and even below the number of cars made during the Covid pandemic years of 2020 (920,000) and 2021 (859,000). Of that total, 717,371 were cars, down 60,000 year on year.
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UK energy policy almost guarantees one of the highest energy/electricity/oil/gas price combinations in the world, making all UK indistries uncompetitive. If I was thinking of manufacturing anything, it would not be in the UK.
Then there's the tax situation that makes one in four employees better off on social security than working for a living. This country is led by donkeys that are running it into the ground.
Sky high energy costs and expensive employee costs are crippling UK manufacturing.
Thank you Reeves and Milliband...
Perhaps I'm overlooking something obvious, but could another reason not be that JLR have stopped building cars altogether? Even if their forey into luxury EV's is a sales success (who'd bet on it?), would future Jaguar sales contribute anything to UK car production figures?
As hated as it was, cars like the X-type were attracting Mondeo-man, but now they're going after a tiny market, arguably a market that doesn't exist. Does anyone believe Jaguar will ever produce as many cars as they once did?