Malcolm Wheatley reports on the automotive industry’s stunning achievements over the past 40 years, but says very significant risks lie down the road.
In 2001, The Economist remembered Ford’s Halewood plant on Merseyside in the 1970s as ‘the worst car factory in the world’. “The Ford Escorts it churned out were dodgy, its workers were bolshie, and the place was a battleground of class warfare,” was how it summed up the plant. Turn the clock forward to today,…
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