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Interesting. I can see the importance of access to the FTA but I still think car plants in this country are fucked. I grew up in the Midlands, my Dad worked in the automotive industry, it's been happening for years and the drop in demand for diesels and ultra low emission requirements are another two nails in the coffin. JLR is genuinely struggling, they warned a long time ago that Brexit would be bad for their business but dieselgate (when their range is mostly diesel), falling Chinese demand and the high cost of doing business in the UK seems to have done the damage, not Brexit.
Honda have said that they want to invest in a region that is a big marketplace for them: they sell more vehicles in the US, Japan and China so that means outside of Europe, not just outside of the UK. They've also announced they're going to stop making the Civic in Turkey, which presumably has nothing to do with Brexit.