The Motor Industry

The Motor Industry is a highly flexible, dynamic and global enterprise.

People will always need mobility, businesses too must have timely access to markets, and we all seek more choice, freedom and a better quality of life. It is automobiles that help to enable and deliver these connections. Through their manufacture and use automobiles generate substantial wealth, investment and jobs.

From research and manufacturing, through refuelling and maintenance in use, to recycling at the end of a vehicle's life, the automotive enterprise and its extended supply chain generate a diverse array of wealth and jobs. The core manufacturing, distribution and servicing business in the UK directly generate a turnover value of £200 billion, supports 200,000 manufacturing jobs and 580,000 more jobs in sales, servicing, refuelling, maintenance activities and other service related activities. In 2006 there were 1.65 million cars and commercial vehicles (CVs) produced in the UK. In the same year there were 2.73 million vehicles newly registered.

The automotive sector in the UK, as globally, is constantly changing and adapting to challenging commercial, regulatory and technological trends. The importance of sustainable development and increasingly of climate change and the need to reduce CO2 emissions, at a time when the industry is already under significant cost pressures, will continue to ensure the sector evolves and adapts.