Jaguar Cars, the luxury UK automaker, is developing a new car, the X350. For the first time, the company is to use aluminium body panels for the body shell. Aluminium can be difficult to weld so self‐piercing rivets are used for metal joining. The rivets are used in place of spot welding, but...

A new manufacturing plant has been installed in Solihull, UK, to manufacture the new Range Rover sports utility vehicle. An important aspect of the £80 million investment at the site is a body‐in‐white assembly shop containing 123 robots, many of which are employed in multi‐tasking roles.

Certain models of the new Vauxhall Vectra passenger car are being manufactured at Ellesmere Port where there is a completely new bodyshop with an installed population of some 660 Fanuc robots.

Two models of the Vauxhall Vectra passenger car are now manufactured at Ellesmere Port, UK where there is a completely new bodyshop with over 600 Fanuc robots. John Mortimer reports.

Jaguar Cars has invested millions of dollars in two new facilities – a press shop and a body‐in‐white shop – to produce aluminium bodies for the next generation XJ luxury passenger car.

A new manufacturing plant has been installed in Oxford, UK, to manufacture the new BMW Mini car. An important aspect of the £230 million investment at the site is the fully automated body‐in‐white assembly shop containing 230 robots.