Jaguar XF: Unlike the UK, JLR makes the right move

The general Europe-wide ‘what-the-hell-were-they-thinking’ reaction to the British electorate’s decision to leave the EU is being mirrored by those motor manufacturers who’ve committed billions in investment in the UK.

Those puzzled carmakers are also undoubted nonplussed by the concomitant and expected ‘glory to independence’ cant from those who lied through their teeth to secure the victory, without any regard for those whose money is responsible for so many UK jobs, or indeed the fate of the workers themselves.

A remarkably strong UK motor industry, which last year posted a turnover of £76.1bn and boasted employment of 814,000 jobs, of which 169,000 are employed directly in the manufacture of cars, is now in dread of having no access to the EU’s single market.