Car production increased by almost a third last month compared with a year ago, new figures show.
The number of cars coming off British assembly lines in July rose 31 per cent, taking factory output in the first seven months of the year to 526,000, up 14 per cent year-on-year.
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, the industry body, said that should put the sector on course to producing 860,000 vehicles in 2023 as a whole. That would be an increase of about 10 per cent on the 66-year nadir of 2022, when Britain’s factories produced only 775,000 cars, the worst performance since 1956, predating the launch of the Mini, the Jaguar E-Type and the Aston Martin DB5.
However, the society believes that
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