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COMMENT: To boost automotive exports, import more automotive engineers

BY RICHARD SURRIDGE: As the UK continues to outperform most other automotive markets across Europe, the country is being forced to look overseas to plug the automotive engineering skills gap

Automotive production in the UK soared to more than 1.5 million vehicles in 2014, with 80% of those cars exported, and Nissan’s automotive factory in Sunderland is now producing more cars each year than the whole of Italy.

More recently, March 2015 saw £1bn (US$1.5bn) of foreign money invested in the UK automotive manufacturing sector, with new investments announced for

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