Some 54,962 cars rolled off production lines compared to just 5,314 in May 2020. Outputs, however, were still far below pre-pandemic levels, due to lack of supply of semiconductors.
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UK factories turned out 54,962 cars in May, well up on the same month in pandemic-ravaged 2020, but way down on previous Mays
24 Jun 2021
The shaky state of the UK’s car manufacturing industry has been highlighted by the latest production figures, which show just under 55,000 new cars were built here last month.
Manufacturing was up vastly on the same month last year, when Covid closed almost everything and just 5,314 cars were built, but it is still less than half what it was in May 2019, when 116,035 when new cars were made here according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. Over a five-year average, production was down 36.3 per cent for January to May 2021.