More cuts at UK Nissan plant

NISSAN is to stop producing its luxury Infiniti cars in Sunderland in a fresh blow to workers at Britain’s biggest vehicle factory.

The Japanese firm said it would no longer make the Infiniti Q30 and QX30 there after this summer as part of global cutbacks.

The Infiniti range will be taken off sale in Western Europe, and the Q30 and QX30 models will not be made at all. Around 250 employees work on the cars in Sunderland – the only place in the world where they are produced. It is expected that they will be redeployed to different vehicle lines. The Sunderland plant employs around 7,000 workers.

A Nissan spokesman said the move was ‘nothing to do with Brexit whatsoever’.

It comes weeks after the firm abandoned plans to make its new X-Trail SUV in Sunderland amid uncertainty surrounding Brexit. It will now be built in Nissan’s home country.