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psarhjinian @ Mar 26th 2008 3:34PM
It's not so much the cost of manufacturing in the UK, it's that the engineering culture needed for automobile mass-production just doesn't exist there.
Coach- and supercars, sure, but anything more than a a few tens of cars per month does not do well there. Ford did well, but it had a lot of endemic QA problems that it inherited from Jag and Rover. Tata is likely going to try to build these products from a ground-up plant that doesn't have the legacy management trouble of the current UK ones.