UK car manufacturing showed an increasing reliance on overseas exports as the SMMT announced that production levels had fallen for the first time for eight years during 2017.
Strike action over wages which has already seen Hyundai Motor lose out on the production of 114,000 now looks set to continue into the latter part of this week, reports suggest.
Over one million cars have been built so far in 2016, with July marking the 12th consecutive month of growth for the sector, according to the SMMT.
The UK workforce has admitted that Friday is the least productive working day of the week, says Nissan.
