Nissan to cut 12,500 jobs World wide

[grober]

Union sources are hopeful that Nissan's Sunderland car plant will escape the effects of the job cuts, 4,800 of which had been previously announced.
Nissan to cut 12,500 jobs worldwide

 

[Darrell]

Round our way in north west London, our local council have just given permission for a 29 storey resi block by Colindale Station. The developers have purchased the station car park and that is to be the site.
There will be no parking facilities for the owners of the flats nor facilities for commuters. This is happening all over London and it means that people now are not buying cars anymore. It’s happening in London and will happen in other cities.

This obviously will have a knock-on effect on the car industry.

 

[wivenhoe]

Round our way in north west London, our local council have just given permission for a 29 storey resi block by Colindale Station. The developers have purchased the station car park and that is to be the site.
There will be no parking facilities for the owners of the flats nor facilities for commuters. This is happening all over London and it means that people now are not buying cars anymore. It’s happening in London and will happen in other cities.

This obviously will have a knock-on effect on the car industry.

The developer of our site previously built a large estate just down the road. The planners insisted that only 1 parking space should be allowed at each house - the development is predominately 4 & 5 beds with some 3 beds. It is chaos and the Ambulance Service and Fire Brigade have put up signs saying any cars obstructing them will be towed away - they go up monthly during the night to drive an engine and ambulance through the estate and either disturb the owners of all cars obstructing them or tow them out of the estate.
When our estate went for planning the developer got the backing of the Ambulance & Fire Services and each house has at least 2 but mostly 3 parking spaces at the house - no problems. In London you could consider going car-less but not in North Essex !

 

[Darrell]

The developer of our site previously built a large estate just down the road. The planners insisted that only 1 parking space should be allowed at each house - the development is predominately 4 & 5 beds with some 3 beds. It is chaos and the Ambulance Service and Fire Brigade have put up signs saying any cars obstructing them will be towed away - they go up monthly during the night to drive an engine and ambulance through the estate and either disturb the owners of all cars obstructing them or tow them out of the estate.
When our estate went for planning the developer got the backing of the Ambulance & Fire Services and each house has at least 2 but mostly 3 parking spaces at the house - no problems. In London you could consider going car-less but not in North Essex !

It’s the same where we live now. All 3 & 4 bed houses with only 1 parking space per house. The result is people digging up their front gardens and putting in driveways. First of all they look ugly and secondly the rainwater has nowhere to go.

We have 2 cars, the Jaaag sits in our one, tiny allocated space and the Porsche lives at my sisters in Surrey.

People are now downsizing to one vehicle now and because of UBER etc it makes it easier, the TFL app even tells me when the bus is due. Not so long ago if you lived in central London you didn’t need a car, we are in the suburbs and you can now pretty much get away without a car. The result is all those well off people NOT buying cars and then the factories close. It’s the tip of the iceberg.

 

[markjay]

Where I live, there are Victorian block of flats, and the street parking is no where near enough.

We have a few ~eighties-built Council towers as well, and they all have private off-street car park.

Which is an eye sore for home owners who can't find parking while their neighbours in social housing get a parking space from the Council.

But this is irrational... would the home-owners have preferred that the Council not provided parking for their towers? If that was the case, then finding street parking would have been far more difficult that it already is... in fact, residents should be grateful that the Council provided the towers with their own parking.

 

[wivenhoe]

Going back on topic for a minute - the manufacturers always have to blame something outside their control - Brexit, downturn in China, Trump tariffs etc. Whilst these things undoubtably have an impact the root causes for most of them is that :-

• they caused a loss of confidence in buying new cars due to them criminally conning their buyers - the major reason VW lied about the emissions was because they were trying to convert ‘gasoline Yanks’ to the diesels they had invested in, knowing they were breaking US limits. The German manufacturers are being prosecuted for acting as a cartel over Adblue etc. - “The European Commission has informed BMW, Daimler and VW (Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche) of its preliminary view that they have breached EU antitrust rules from 2006 to 2014 by colluding to restrict competition on the development of technology to clean the emissions of petrol and diesel passenger cars.”
• They ignored the way the world was changing in terms of people becoming more aware of pollution and so still flooded the market with cars buyers don’t want.

Apologies for the rant but the people who pay for incompetence are the ones being made redundant through no fault of their own.