Growing stocks of unsold cars around the world
Carmakers around the world are cutting production as inventories build up to unprecedented levels. Storage areas and docksides are now packed with vast expanses of unsold cars as demand slumps
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Nissan has announced plans to cut its Sunderland workforce by 1,200. Thousands of unsold cars are stored around the factory's test track
Photograph: Nigel Roddis/Reuters
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Honda is halting production at its Swindon plant in April and May, extending the two-month closure announced before Christmas to four months. Honda and Japanese rival Toyota are both cutting production in Japan and elsewhere. Pictured, Hondas await export at a pier in Tokyo
Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA
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Land Rover Freelander cars await distribution outside the Halewood operations site in Liverpool
Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty
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Earlier this week Jaguar Land Rover said 450 British jobs would go
Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty
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The open car storage areas in Corby, Northamptonshire, are reaching full capacity
Photograph: David Goddard/Getty
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Imported cars stored at Sheerness open storage area awaiting delivery to dealers
Photograph: David Goddard/Getty
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Newly imported cars fill the 150-acre site at the Toyota distribution centre in Long Beach, California
Photograph: David McNew/Getty
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The build-up of imported cars at the port of Newark, New Jersey
Photograph: Mark Lennihan/AP
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Stocks of Ford trucks in Detroit, Michigan
Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty
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New cars jam the dockside in the port of Valencia in Spain
Photograph: Mike Hewitt/Getty
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Peugeot cars await shipment to Italian dealers at the port of Civitavecchia
Photograph: Giampiero Sposito/Reuters
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Lord Mandelson unlocked £2.3bn in loan guarantees for the ailing car industry, including £1.3bn in loans from the European Investment Bank.
Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty
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With many manufacturers on extended Christmas shutdown, the number of cars rolling off production lines in December fell 47.5% to just 53,823
Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty
