Car manufacturing in Britain and the rest of the world is reeling from a series of shocks: Brexit, Covid-19, the semiconductor shortage and now the war in Ukraine.
During a recent Autocar Business webinar with Stephen Norman (former boss of Vauxhall), David Bailey (business economics professor at Birmingham Business School) and Mark Brickhill (CEO of parts maker Klarius), it became clear that just-in-time manufacturing remains the only real option for a business model for building cars but changes are definitely needed.
